The Social Archaeology of the Levant - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-viii

Figures

pp ix-xii

Tables

pp xiii-xiv

Contributors

pp xv-xvi

Foreword

pp xvii-xxviii

Acknowledgments

pp xxix-xxx

Abbreviations

pp xxxi-xxxvi

Prologue

pp 1-6

Part One

pp 7-160

One - The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Southern Levant

pp 9-28

Two - An Anthropological Review of the Upper Paleolithic in the Southern Levant

pp 29-46

Three - The Forager–Farmer Transition in the Southern Levant (ca. 20,000–8,500 cal. BP)

pp 47-66

Four - Getting It Together

pp 67-85

Five - Fire and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean

pp 86-97

Six - It’s a Small World

pp 98-121

Seven - The Spiritual and Social Landscape during the Chalcolithic Period

pp 122-145

Eight - Using Archaeobotanical Remains to Model Social, Political, and Economic Changes during the Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant

pp 146-160

Part Two

pp 161-280

Nine - The Southern Levant during the Early Bronze Age I–III

pp 163-182

Ten - Continuity, Innovation, and Change

pp 183-198

Eleven - Mix ‘n’ Match

pp 199-223

Twelve - The Middle Bronze Age Canaanite City as a Domesticating Apparatus

pp 224-244

Thirteen - Cuneiform Writing in Bronze Age Canaan

pp 245-264

Fourteen - “Canaan Is Your Land and Its Kings Are Your Servants”

pp 265-280

Part Three

pp 281-390

Fifteen - The “Conquest” of the Highlands in the Iron Age I

pp 283-309

Sixteen - Iron Age I Philistines

pp 310-323