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Bronze Age Rural Ecology and Village Life at Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan
Steven E. Falconer and Patricia L. Fall
Tell el-Hayyat, the focus of this volume, is situated in the Jordan Rift Valley approximately two kilometres east of the Jordan River on the first terrace above the present floodplain. This work details the authors' investigations of agrarian economy andecology as they illuminate the roles of rural communities in the larger context of the first urbanized civilizations. The study explores the ways in which small farming villages like Tell el-Hayyat contributed and responded to the rise and fall of Bronze Age town life in the southern Levant. A rural perspective is particularly appropriate for this region amid its long legacy of sedentary agriculture, dynamic urban-rural relations, and their ecological consequences.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF APPENDICES
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CHAPTER 1: VILLAGE COMMUNITIES IN THE BRONZE AGE LEVANT: ECOLOGY AND HISTORY
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CHAPTER 2: INTERPRETATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR EXPLORING BRONZE AGE RURALISM
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CHAPTER 3: DOMESTIC AND PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE AT TELL EL-HAYYAT
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CHAPTER 4: CERAMIC AND RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY FOR TELL EL-HAYYAT
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CHAPTER 5: ECONOMY AND SUBSISTENCE AT TELL EL-HAYYAT
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CHAPTER 6: TEMPLE ECONOMY AND RITUAL AT TELL EL-HAYYAT
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CHAPTER 7: HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY AT TELL EL-HAYYAT
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CHAPTER 8: BRONZE AGE AGRARIAN ECOLOGY ALONG THE JORDAN RIFT
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REFERENCES CITED
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APPENDIX A: CODES FOR TELL EL-HAYYAT DATABASES
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APPENDIX B: TELL EL-HAYYAT EXCAVATED LOCI
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APPENDIX C :TELL EL-HAYYAT REGISTERED OBJECTS
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APPENDIX D: TELL EL-HAYYAT REGISTERED OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS
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APPENDIX E: TELL EL-HAYYAT SEED COUNTS
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APPENDIX F: TELL EL-HAYYAT SEED DENSITIES
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APPENDIX G: TELL EL-HAYYAT FLOTATION SAMPLES AND SEED IDENTIFICATIONS
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Published: 2006
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407330471 (ebook)
- 9781841717999 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1586
- Landscape Archaeology
- Ritual / Religion / Temples
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies
- Food and Drink / Diet
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Levant / Near East
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology