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Early Bronze IV Village Life in the Jordan Valley: Excavations at Tell Abu en-Ni'aj and Dhahret Umm el-Marar, Jordan
Steven E. Falconer and Patricia L. Fall
The archaeological excavation of Tell Abu en-Ni'aj provides the foundation for an unprecedented analysis of agrarian village life during an era of the Levantine Bronze Age characterised previously in terms of urban collapse and a reversion to mobile pastoralism. Interpretation of archaeological and ecological evidence here situates the lifeways of this community amid emerging revised chronologies and reconstructions of village-based society in the third millennium BC. This reconstruction of rural life integrates evidence of regional and local environmental change, agricultural coping strategies, intramural social change, interaction with neighbouring communities and ritual ties with preceding and subsequent periods. This synthesis centred on Tell Abu en-Ni'aj suggests a strikingly revised portrait of rural society in the course of Near Eastern civilisation.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Photographs
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List of Maps
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List of Tables
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Preface
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Abstract
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By the same authors
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1. The Advent and Abandonment of Levantine Urbanism
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2. Excavation Methods and Interpretive Framework
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3. Modern and Past Environmental Dynamics in the Southern Levant
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4. Community Architecture at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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5. Radiocarbon Chronology for Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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6. Early Bronze IV Ceramic Typology and Chronology at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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7. Ceramic Vessel Form, Function and Style at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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8. Stone and Metal Tool Technology at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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9. Archaeobotanical Analyses of Carbonised Plant Remains from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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10. Early Bronze IV Ritual Behaviour at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj
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11. Excavations at Dhahret Umm el-Marar and Umm el-Ba‘ir
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12. Early Bronze IV Village Life during Urban Abandonment
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Bibliography
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Published: 2019
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407316925 (paperback)
- 9781407355641 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2922
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Lithics / Stone Tools
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Levant / Near East
- Computing and Quantitative Methods
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies