The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
Author:   Peter Magee (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9780521862318


Pages:   309
Publication Date:   19 May 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Peter Magee (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9780521862318


ISBN 10:   0521862310
Pages:   309
Publication Date:   19 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Arabia and the study of the ancient Near East; 2. Ecological and environmental diversity in Arabia; 3. The formation of Arabian society: 7000 to 3000 BC; 4. Eastern Arabia from 3000 to 2000 BC; 5. The Bronze Age in western Arabia; 6. Eastern Arabia from 2000 to 1300 BC; 7. Humans, dromedaries, and the transformation of ancient Arabia; 8. Intensification and consolidation: Arabia from 1300 to 800 BC; 9. Expansion and engagement: Arabia and the ancient Near East; 10. Adaptation and social formation in ancient Arabia.

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'... it will be difficult to find a more comprehensive book on the topic, combining the presentation of the latest research with stimulating and prospective thoughts.' Antiquity


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Peter Magee is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. He has excavated widely in the Middle East and South Asia, most notably in the United Arab Emirates at the sites of Muweilah and Tell Abraq, since 1994. He also co-directed the excavations at Akra in northwest Pakistan from 1997 to 2001. He has published extensively on the archaeology of Iron Age Arabia, Iran and South Asia. He is author of Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran 1967–1975: The Iron Age Settlement (2004).

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