Steiner - The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant, c. 8000-332 BCE

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEVANT

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

C.8000332 BCE

Edited by
MARGREET L. STEINER
and
ANN E. KILLEBREW

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ANN E. KILLEBREW AND MARGREET L. STEINER

MATTHEW J. SURIANO

HOLGER GZELLA

THOMAS DAVIS

ILAN SHARON

GREGORY D. MUMFORD

HORST KLENGEL

TAMMI J. SCHNEIDER

JOSETTE ELAYI

BILL FINLAYSON

PETER M. M. G. AKKERMANS

A. NIGEL GORING-MORRIS AND ANNA BELFER-COHEN

ALISON BETTS

JOANNE CLARKE

THOMAS E. LEVY

GASSIA ARTIN

YORKE M. ROWAN

ZEIDAN A. KAFAFI

EDGAR PELTENBURG

RAPHAEL GREENBERG

LISA COOPER

HERMANN GENZ

PIERRE DE MIROSCHEDJI

SUZANNE RICHARD

JENNIFER M. WEBB

HARVEY WEISS

KAY PRAG

AARON A. BURKE

DANIELE MORANDI BONACOSSI

HANAN CHARAF

SUSAN L. COHEN

STEPHEN J. BOURKE

DAVID FRANKEL

E. SUSAN SHERRATT

MARTA LUCIANI

MARLIES HEINZ AND SABINA KULEMANN-OSSEN

NAVA PANITZ-COHEN

PETER M. FISCHER

LOUISE STEEL

ANN E. KILLEBREW

HLNE SADER

AYELET GILBOA

LARRY G. HERR

MARIA IACOVOU

MARGREET L. STEINER

STEFANIA MAZZONI

MARA EUGENIA AUBET

DAVID BEN-SHLOMO

ANN E. KILLEBREW

JAMES W. HARDIN

RANDALL W. YOUNKER

MARGREET L. STEINER

PIOTR BIENKOWSKI

MARIA IACOVOU

JEFFREY R. ZORN

GUNNAR LEHMANN

Peter M. M. G. Akkermans Professor, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Gassia Artin Associated Researcher, Maison de lOrient et de la Mditerrane, Universit Lyon II, France

Mara Eugenia Aubet Director of Cuadernos de Arqueologia Mediterrnea, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Anna Belfer-Cohen Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

David Ben-Shlomo Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Alison Betts Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia

Piotr Bienkowski Cultural Consultant, Tottington, UK

Stephen J. Bourke Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia

Aaron A. Burke Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Hanan Charaf Research Associate, UMR 7041, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, France

Joanne Clarke Senior Lecturer, School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, UK

Susan L. Cohen Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, USA

Lisa Cooper Associate Professor, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada

Thomas Davis Professor, Tandy Institute for Archaeology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA

Josette Elayi Chercheur honoraire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Bill Finlayson Director, Council for British Research in the Levant, UK

Peter M. Fischer Professor, Department of Historical Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden

David Frankel Professor, Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Australia

Hermann Genz Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Ayelet Gilboa Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel

A. Nigel Goring-Morris Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Raphael Greenberg Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Holger Gzella Professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands

James W. Hardin Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, USA

Marlies Heinz Professor, Department of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Freiburg, Germany

Larry G. Herr Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Canadian University College, Canada

Maria Iacovou Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Zeidan A. Kafafi Professor, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Jordan

Ann E. Killebrew Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Horst Klengel Altorientalischen Seminar, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany

Sabina Kulemann-Ossen Associate Researcher, Department of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Bern, Switzerland

Gunnar Lehmann Associate Professor, Deptartment of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Thomas E. Levy Professor, Department of Anthropology and Qualcomm Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego, USA

Marta Luciani Assistant Professor, Oriental Institute, University of Vienna, Austria

Stefania Mazzoni Professor, Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine & Performing Arts, University of Florence, Italy

Pierre de Miroschedji Directeur de recherche mrite, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France