Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern Levant: Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast...
- ISBN-10
- 1575062178
- ISBN-13
- 9781575062174
- Category
- Bronze age
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Authors
- Walter E. Rast, R. Thomas Schaub, Meredith S. Chesson
Description
This volume emerges from a session honoring Watler E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub held during the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Atlanta, Georgia and includes expanded versions of many of the papers presented in that session. Contributing scholars encompass a broad range of methods and approaches to learning about the past: anthropological archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology, and physical anthropology. -- from Back Cover
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