Agriculture and Religion at Bâb Edh-Dhrâʿ and Numeira during the Early Bronze Age

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. “the depth of their impression”: Honoring Walter E. Rast’s and R. Thomas Schaub’s Scholarship and Contributions to Early Bronze Age Studies in the Southern Levant vii
4. Part 1: Peoples’ Lives and Deaths in Early Bronze Age Towns
5. Beyond the City Walls: Life Activities Outside the City Gates in the Early Bronze Age in Jordan: Evidence from Khirbet ez-Zeraqon 3
6. The Early Bronze Age Societies of Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Central Jordan Valley 23
7. Life In the City: Tel Bet Yerah in the Early Bronze Age 41
8. The Domestic Unit at Tall Iktanu: Its Derivations and Functions 55
9. Agriculture and Religion at Bâb Edh-Dhrâʿ and Numeira during the Early Bronze Age 77
10. Religion and Cult in Early Bronze IV Palestine 89
11. The EB IA People of Bâb edh-Dhrâʿ, Jordan 101
12. Part 2: Trade, Exchange Networks, and Connections between People through Material Culture
13. From Maadi to the Plain of Antioch: What Can Basalt Spindle Whorls Tell Us about Overland Trade in the Early Bronze I Levant? 119
14. Jordanian-Egyptian Interaction during the Third Millennium b.c.e. as Evidenced by the Abydos Ware 139
15. The Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Transition in the Southern Levant and Some Pottery from Hujeyrat al-Ghuzlan 153
16. Talking Trash: Observations on the Abandonment of Broadroom Structures in Southern Sinai during the Early Bronze Age II 173
17. Nawamis, Shells, and Early Bronze Age Pastoralism 185
18. Part 3: Craft Production and People
19. Transitions in Macehead Manufacture in the Ancient Levant: A Case Study from Nahal Tillah (Tel Halif Terrace), Israel 199
20. The Cylinder Seal Impressions from Numeira 219
21. Calcite: A Hard Habit To Break 233
22. Blood From Stone: Can We Really Do Ethnicity from Flint? 247
23. Of Pots and Towns: Old and New Perspectives on EB I of the Southern Levant 265
24. Community Life, Household Production, and the Ceramic Industry at EBA Tall al-ʿUmayri 281