Bab Edh-Dhra': Excavations at the Town Site - 2 Parts

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Eisenbrauns, 2003 - 648 Seiten

The important Early Bronze Age site of Bab edh-Dhra', on the lisan near the Dead Sea in Jordan, was first excavated by Paul W. Lapp in the 1960s. The first volume of the Reports of the Expedition described the burial practices and artifacts revealed in the 1965-67 Bab edh-Dhra' excavations directed by Lapp. This second volume reports on the four seasons of excavation, from 1975-81, at the town site, directed by Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub. It focuses on the lifeways of the Early Bronze Age peoples who inhabited the site during the Early Bronze Age. The stratigraphy and changing architectural practices of five major phases are fully documented and interpreted, with extensive plans and sections. Alternating chapters trace the development of the ceramic sequences, accompanied by innovative statistical analyses of the wares, forms, types, and function of the town assemblage. The results of the ceramic studies are compared to the contemporary cemetery ceramic sequences and other important excavated Early Bronze Age sites such as Arad, Jericho, Ai, Megiddo, and Tel Yarmuth. A series of integrated studies based on the town site sequences focuses on the adaptive agricultural practices of the Early Bronze Age people, revealed through the paleobotanical evidence, pollen analysis, and the ground stone industry. Specialized studies on the chert tools, metals, jewelry, and glyptic art offer new insights into the cultural patterns that distinguish this period. A new series of C14 dates helps to situate the Jordanian material within the contemporary cultural sequences of the fourth and third millennia in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

 

Inhalt

Chapter 1
1
Chapter 2
18
Chapter 3
56
Chapter 4
62
Chapter 5
74
Chapter 6
102
Chapter 7
131
Chapter 8
156
Chapter 12
398
Chapter 13
423
Chapter 14
449
Chapter 15
464
Chapter 16
473
Chapter 17
513
Chapter 18
522
Chapter 19
566

Chapter 9
219
Chapter 10
251
Chapter 11
356
Chapter 20
599
Chapter 21
622
Chapter 22
638

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