CBRL Monographs
Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967: Volume V Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem Centenary volume: Kathleen M. Kenyon 1906-1978
Introduction
Site V. The Byzantine re-structuring of the city
Site E. Caves, quarries, hermits and houses
Site D. The southern suburbs of the Byzantine city
Site B. The southern city wall
Sites G and J. The Umayyad palatial building
Sites SI, IIIVI. The defences of the Ottoman city
The Roman and Late Roman fine wares
John Hayes
The stamped amphora handles
D. Snow and K. Prag (with Andreas Dimoulinis, C. Koehler and P. Matheson)
Jerusalem: the coins
Richard Reece, with Helen Brown, Kevin Butcher and Michael Metcalf
Late Ottoman pipes from Jerusalem
St John Simpson
The Arabic inscriptions from Jerusalem
Moshalleh al-Moreikhi, with contributions from the late Pre B. Couroyer OP, C.E. Bosworth and R. Smith.
Scarabs and scaraboids from Jerusalem: a summary list
Kay Prag, with contribution by the late Pre B. Couroyer OP
Shells from Jerusalem (Sites B, D, E, J, S and V)
David S. Reese
General data, summary and conclusions
The CBRL publishes monographs which present significant new contributions to the study of the humanities and social sciences, as relevant to the countries of the Levant.
Monographs are published in the Levant Supplementary Series (distributed by Oxbow).
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K. Prag with contributions from H. Brown, K. Butcher, A. Dimoulinis, J. Hayes, C. Koehler, P. Matheson, M. Metcalf, M. al-Moreikhi, R. Reece, D. S. Reese, S. J. Simpson and D. Snow. {2008) This monograph is available from Oxbow Books. |
G. Barker, D. Gilbertson and D. Mattingly (eds.) 2007
Archaeology and Desertification: The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan.
Levant Supplementary Series 6.
ISBN 1-84217-286-7
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books
Part I: Research Themes, Methods and Background
The Wadi Faynan Landscape
Survey: research themes and project development
Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson, David Mattingly
The Wadi Faynan today:
landscape, environment, people
Carol Palmer, David Gilbertson, Hwedi el-Rishi, Chris
Hunt, John Grattan, Sue McLaren, Brian Pyatt
The past and present
landscapes of the Wadi Faynan: geoarchaeological
approaches and frameworks
Hwedi el-Rishi, Chris Hunt, David Gilbertson, John
GRattan, Sue McLaren, Brian Pyatt, Geoff Duller, Gavin
Gillmore, Paul Phillips
Recording and classifying
the archaeological record
Oliver Creighton, Graeme Barker, David Mattingly
The Wadi Faynan field
systems
Paul Newson, Graeme Barker, Patrick Daly, David
Mattingly, David Gilbertson
Part II: Chronological Syntheses
Pleistocene environments
and human settlement
Sue McLaren, Tim Reynolds, David Gilbertson, John
Grattan, Chris Hunt, Hwedi el-Rishi, Graeme Barker,
Geoff Duller
Early Holocene
environments and early farming: c. 11,000-7000 cal. BP,
c. 9500-5000 cal. BC
Graeme Barker, Chris Hunt, Sue McLaren, Tim Reynolds,
Hwedi el-Rishi, David Gilbertson, John Grattan
Chalcolithic (c. 5000-3600
cal. BC) and Bronze Age (c. 3600-1200 cal. BC)
settlement in Wadi Faynan: metallurgy and social
complexity
Graeme Barker, Russell Adams, Oliver Creighton, Hwedi
el-Rishi, David Gilbertson, John Grattan, Chris Hunt,
Paul Newson, Brian Pyatt, Tim Reynolds
The making of early
states: the Iron Age and Nabataean periods
David Mattingly, Paul Newson, John Grattan, Roberta
Tomber, Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson, Chris Hunt
A landscape of imperial
power: Roman and Byzantine Phaino
David Mattingly, Paul Newson, Oliver Creighton, Roberta
Romber, John Grattan, Chris Hunt, David Gilbertson,
Hwedi el-Rishi, Brian Pyatt
The Islamic and Ottoman
periods
Paul Newson, David Mattingly, Patrick Daly, Roberta
Tomber, Hwedi el-Rishi, David Gilbertson, John Grattan,
Chris Hunt, Sue McLaren, Brian Pyatt
Ethnoarchaeology
Carol Palmer, Helen Smith, Patrick Daly
Archaeology and
desertification: the landscapes of the Wadi Faynan
David Gilbertson, Graeme Barker, David Mattingly,
Carol Palmer, John Grattan, Brian Pyatt
English Summary
Arabic Summary
E. Peltenburg, (ed.) 2007
Euphrates River Valley Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC.
Levant Supplementary Series 5.
ISBN 1-84217-272-7
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books.
Introduction
New perspectives on the Carchemish sector of the Middle Euphrates River valley
in the 3rd millennium BC
Edgar Peltenburg
Part One: Regional Dimensions - Overview
Archaeological regions in the neighbourhood of Carchemish
T.J. Wilkinson
Site hierarchy in the
Tishrin Dam area and third millennium geopolitics in
Northern Syria
Guy Bunnens
Early Bronze Age burial
types and social-cultural identity within the northern
Euphrates Valley
Lisa Cooper
Part Two: Settlements of the Middle Euphrates and Sajur River basins
The 'champagne-cup' period
at Carchemish. A review of the Early Bronze Age levels
on the Acropolis Mound and the problem of the Inner Town
Gioacchino Falsone and Paola Sconzo
A 'high' terrace at Gre
Virike to the north of Carchemish: power of local rulers
as founders?
A. Tuba Ökse
>Was
there a post-Uruk collapse in the Carchemish area?
Philippe Quenet
Establishment of a Middle/Upper Euphrates Early Bronze I
culture from the fragmentation of the Uruk world. New
data from Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük
Marcella Frangipane
The
Tilbes Project (Birecik Dam, Turkish Euphrates): the
Early Bronze evidence
Jesús Gil Fuensanta
Dynamics, diagnostic criteria and settlement patterns in
the Carchemish area during the Early Bronze period
Christine Kepinski
The Early Bronze Age in the Syrian north-west Jezireh: the Tell es-Sweyhat region
Michael D. Danti and Richard L. Zettler
Part Three: Carchemish sector material culture in its broader context
The metalwork of the Carchemish region and the development of grave repertoires during the third millennium BC
Graham Philip
Regional culture and metal objects in the area of
Carchemish during the Early Bronze Age
Filomena Fausta Squadrone
Is there a Carchemish regional glyptic style? Reflections
on sealing practices in the northern Euphrates region
Andrew McCarthy>
The Carchemish region in the Early Bronze Age
Catherine Marro
Fruit stands and the definition of a cultural area around Carchemish
Kemal Sertok
Plain and luxury wares of the third millennium BC in the
Carchemish region: two case-studies from Tell Shiyukh
Tahtani
Paola Sconzo
The Carchemish region as a ceramic province in the Early
Bronze Age: analysis of the ceramics from the Carchemish
Dam focusing on the material of Gre Virike
Atilla Engin
B. Finlayson, and S. Mithen (eds.) 2007
The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16.
Levant Supplementary Series 4.
ISBN 1-84217-212-3
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books.
The Dana-Faynan-Ghuwayr Early History Project
Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen
Part One: Archaeological Survey
Long-term landscape evolution of the Wadis Dana, Faynan and Ghuwayr
Richard Tipping
Archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr, Dana and al-Bustan
Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Anne Pirie, Sam Smith and Charlotte
Whiting
The rock art of WF400, Wadi Ghuwayr
Suzie Pinkett and Steven Mithen
A comparative study of bifaces from Wadis Faynan and al-Bustan
Eileen Clegg and Steven Mithen
Part Two: Evaluation of Site WF16
Excavations at WF16
Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen
The sediment micromorphology
Eleanor Roe
The chipped stone
Anne Pirie
The use wear analysis of chipped stone points
Sam Smith
The worked bone
Bill Finlayson
The ground stone
Ruth Shaffrey
The stone beads
Pat Critchley
The marine molluscs, with a note on an echinoid fossil and the
terrestrial snails
Ruby Cerón-Carrasco
A bitumen deposit
Karen Wicks
The mammalian faunal remains
Denise B. Carruthers and Samantha J. Dennis
The microfaunal remains
Yvonne H. Edwards and Louise Martin
The bird bones
Kevin Rielley
The human bones
Charlotte Roberts
The wood charcoal macroremains
Amanda Kennedy
The phytoliths
Emma Jenkins and Arlene Rosen
The modern vegetation of Hammam Adethni and its
palaeo-economic implications
Steven Mithen, Helen Emberson and Neil Lancaster
Geophysical investigation
Timothy Astin and Carol Mansfield
The radiocarbon dates
Steven Mithen and Bill Finlayson
WF16 and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A of the
southern Levant
Steven Mithen and Bill Finlayson
WF16 and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A of the
southern Levant (Arabic version)
Steven Mithen and Bill Finlayson
P. Bienkowsi, and K. Galor (eds.) 2006
Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlement Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah.
Levant Supplementary Series 3.
ISBN 1-84217-209-3
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books.
Piotr Bienkowski and Katharina Galor
The Wadi Arabah: Meanings in
a contested landscape
Piotr Bienkowski
Desert environment and geoarchaeology of the Wadi Arabah
Hendrik J. Bruins
The archaeological surveys in the Arabah reconsidered: Data and
metadata
Moti Haiman
Settlement patterns in the Wadi Arabah and the adjacent desert areas:
A view from the Eilat region
Uzi Avner
The southern Ghors and north-east Arabah: Resources, sites and routes
Burton MacDonald
Cultural and geological influences on prehistoric site distributions
in the Wadi Arabah
Donald O. Henry
Aspects of an Early Bronze Age II-III polity in the Dead Sea region
Yuval Yekutieli
Mining archaeology and archaeometallurgy in the Wadi Arabah: The
mining districts of Faynan and Timna
Andreas Hauptmann
Copper trading networks across the Arabah during the later Early
Bronze Age
Russell Adams
The emergence and first development of Arabian trade across the Wadi
Arabah
Michael Jasmin
The Wadi Arabah in the Hebrew Scriptures
John R Bartlett
'Down to the Sea': Nabataean colonisation in the Negev
Highlands
Tali Erikson-Gini
The Nabataean presence south of the Dead Sea: New evidence
Yizhar Hirschfeld
Textiles, basketry, cordage and fruits from 'En Tamar:
Preliminary report
Orit Shamir
The Rujm Taba Archaeological Project (RTAP): Results of the 2001
survey and reconnaissance
Benjamin J Dolinka
Roman organisation in the fourth century AD
Benjamin Isaac
Roman Aila and the Wadi Arabah: An economic relationship
S
Thomas Parker
Were there gold mines in the eastern Arabah?
Ze'ev Meshel
The Wadi Arabah during the early Islamic period
Donald
Whitcomb
Nineteenth-century travellers in the Wadi Arabah
Eveline J van
der Steen
Relations between Bedouin tribes on opposite sides of the Wadi Arabah,
1600-1950
Clinton Bailey
J. Clarke, (ed.) 2005
Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission & Assimilation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Levant Supplementary Series 2.
ISBN 1-84217-168-2
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books.
Thomas E. Levy
Introduction
Cultural Transmissions and Transformations
Joanne Clarke
Part One: Methodological Approaches to the Transmission and Transformation of Culture
Understanding the Importance of Methodology in
Complex Archaeological Interpretation
Joanne Clarke
Constructing Identities in the Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean: Cultural Difference and the Role of Architecture
Demetra Papaconstantinou
Becoming Bronze Age. Acculturation and Enculturation in Third Millennium BC Cyprus
David Frankel
‘Ethnicities’, ‘Ethnonyms’ and Archaeological Labels. Whose Ideologies and Whose Identities?
Susan Sherratt
A Question of Reception
Jackie Phillips
Transmission and Assimilation in Context: An Economic Model for the Selection and Use of Greek and Phoenician Ceramic Imports in 8th Century BC Cypriot Society
David W. Rupp
The Local Dimension in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant: A Case Study Using Imported Pottery
G. Miles Huckle
The Impact of Trade on Late Cypriot Society: A Contextual Study of Imports from Enkomi
Sophia Antoniadou
Part Two: Time and Continuity
Transmissions and Transformations in Time and the Phenomenon of Continuity
Joanne Clarke
The Neolithic Revolution and the Emergence of Humanity: a Cognitive Approach to the First Comprehensive World-View
Trevor Watkins
Life, Death and the Emergence of Differential Status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel
A. Nigel Goring-Morris
Transforming Food Practices in the Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant
Brian Boyd
Like a Bull in a China Shop: Identity and Ideology in Neolithic Cyprus
Alain Le Brun
House Form and Cultural Identity in Chalcolithic Cyprus
Gordon Thomas
Cyprus at the Dawn of the First Millennium BC Cultural Homogenisation Versus the Tyranny of Ethnic Identifications
Maria Iacovou
Part Three: Space and Diversity
Crossing Cultural Divides: Transmissions and Transformations in Space
Joanne Clarke
Identifying Ethnicity from Prehistoric Pottery in Ancient Egypt and the Southern Levant
Eliot Braun
The Frontier of Egypt in the Early Bronze Age: Prelimary Soundings at Tell al-Sakan (Gaza Strip)
Pierre de Miroschedji and Moain Sadeq
Cultural Homogenisation and Diversity in Canaan During the 13th and 12th Centuries BC
Ann E. Killebrew
Ideology, Iconography and Identity. The Role of Foreign Goods and Images in the Establishment of Social Hierarchy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
Jennifer M. Webb
Images of Women and Cultural Assimilation in the Achaemenid Persian Levant and Cyprus
Roger Moorey
Minoan Asherah?
Stephanie Budin
The Worship of Anat and Astarte in Cypriot Iron Age Sanctuaries
Anja Ulbrich
Architectural Styles and Ethnic Identity in Medieval to Modern Cyprus
Michael Given
Identities and Empire: Cyprus under British Rule
Kylie Seretis
E. Peltenburg, and A. Wasse (eds.) 2004
Neolithic Revolution. New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries on Cyprus.
Levant Supplementary Series 1.
ISBN 1-84217-132-1
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books.
Introduction: a revised Cypriot prehistory and some implications for the study of the Neolithic
Edgar Peltenburg
Bitter hippos of Cyprus: the island's first occupants and last endemic animals – setting the stage for colonization
Alan H. Simmons
Island colonization, insularity or mainstream?
Bill Finlayson
Putting the colonization of Cyprus into context
Trevor Watkins
The domestic status of the early Neolithic fauna of Cyprus: a view from the mainland
Liora Kolska Horwitz, Eitan Tchernov and Hitomi Hongo
Reappraisal of the archaeobotanical evidence for the emergence and dispersal of the 'founder crops'
Sue Colledge
Abu Hureyra and the development of farming in Western Asia: directions for future research
A.M.T. Moore
Social space in early sedentary communities of Southwest Asia and Cyprus
Edgar Peltenburg
The emergence of the Mediterranean Fishing Village in the Levant and the anomaly of Neolithic Cyprus
Ehud Galili, Avi Gopher, Baruch Rosen and Liora Kolska Horwitz
Cypriot Neolithic chipped stone industries and the progress of regionalization
Carole McCartney
Hill and vale – understanding prehistoric lithic use in Cyprus
Sarah Tyrrell Stewart
Flint workshops of the Southern Beqa' Valley (Lebanon) – preliminary results from Qar'oun
Maya Haïdar-Boustani
Geometric patterns on pebbles: early identity symbols
Anna Eirikh-Rose
Tools and toys or traces of trade: the problem of the enigmatic incised objects from Cyprus and the Levant
Sarah Tyrrell Stewart and David W. Rupp
"Néolithique" and "Énéolithique" Byblos in Southern Levantine context
Yosef Garfinkel
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British Academy Monographs
Kennedy, David and Robert Bewley (2004)
Ancient Jordan from the Air
Council for British Research in the Levant
ISBN-10: 0953910229
Byrd, B.F. (2005)
Early Village Life at Beidha, Jordan: Neolithic Spatial Organization and Vernacular Architecture. The Excavations of Mrs. Diana Kirkbride-Halbæk.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 14.
ISBN 0-19727-013-1
Bienkowski, P. with contributions by M. Balla et al. (2002)
Busayra – Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett 1971-1980.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 13.
ISBN 0-19727-012-3
Petersen, A. with contributions by M. Milwright (drawings by H. Nixon; maps by P. Leach) (2001)
A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (Part 1).
British Academy Monograph 12.
ISBN 0-19727-011-5
Tonghini, C. with contributions by H.J. Franken et al. (1998)
Qal’at Ja’bar Pottery: A Study of a Syrian Fortified Site of the Late 11th-14th Centuries.
British Academy Monograph 11.
ISBN 0-19727-010-7
Harper, R.P. and D. Pringle (2000)
Belmont Castle - The Excavation of a Crusader Stronghold in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
British Academy Monograph 10.
ISBN 0-19727-009-3
Harper, R.P. with contributions by G. Clark et al. (1995)
Upper Zohar, an Early Byzantine Fort in Palaestina Tertia: Final Report of Excavations in 1985-1986.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 9.
ISBN 0-19727-008-5
Bennett, C.M. and P. Bienkowski, with contributions by K. 'Amr et al. (1995)
Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 8.
ISBN 0-19727-007-7
Dow, M. (1996)
The Islamic Baths of Palestine.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 7.
ISBN 0-19727-006-9
Eshel, I. and K. Prag (Editor) (1995)
Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967, Volume IV: The Iron Age Cave Deposits on the South-East Hill and Isolated Burials and Cemeteries Elsewhere.
British Academy Monographs in Archaeology 6.
ISBN 0-19727-005-0
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books
Northedge, A. with contributions by J. Bowsher et al. (1992)
Studies on Roman and Islamic ‘Amman: The Excavations of Mrs C.-M. Bennett and Other Investigations, Volume I: History, Site and Architecture.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 3.
ISBN 0-19727-002-6
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books
Franken, H.J. and M.L. Steiner (1990)
Excavations in Jerusalem 1961-1967, Volume II. The Iron Age Extramural Quarter on the South-East Hill.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 2.
ISBN 0-19727-001-8
This volume is not currently available from Oxbow Books
McKenzie, J. (1990)
The Architecture of Petra.
British Academy Monograph in Archaeology 1, reprinted 2005.
ISBN 1-84217-164-X
This monograph is available from Oxbow Books
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