One Hundred Years of American Archaeology in the Middle East : Proceedings of the American Schools of Oriental Research Centennial Celebration, Washington DC, April 2000.

Intro -- Introduction -- PART ONE IMAGINING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF NEAR EASTERN AND EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY -- 1 A Century of American Archaeology in the Middle East: Looking Back and Looking Ahead -- 2 Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean: Where We Went Wrong in the Twentieth Century and How We Can Do Better in the Twenty- first -- 3 The Future of Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant: A Reply to Silberman and Muhly -- PART TWO MAJOR MOVEMENTS THROUGH TIME -- 4 The Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Ancient Israel: Myth or History? -- 5 The Philistines: Neighbors of the Canaanites, Phoenicians and Israelites -- 6 The Greek Emergence in the Eastern Mediterranean -Cyprus and Phoenicia -- 7 The Emergence of Early Judaism and Christianity in the Light of Second Temple Diversity and Qumran Sectarianism -- 8 Petra in Jordan: Byzantine Churches and Scrolls -- PART THREE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERIODS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- The Bronze Age-3000-1200 B.C.E. -- 9 Canaan as a Cultural Construct -- 10 Egypt and Canaan in the Bronze Age- A Century of Research -- 11 Canaan's Relations with Cyprus -- 12 Canaan's Relations With The Aegean -- 13 Mesopotamian Archaeology under the American Schools of Oriental Research -- The Iron Age- 1200 through the Sixth Century B.C.E. -- 14 State Formation in Syria at the Beginning of the Iron Age -- 15 Reconstructing the Tenth Century in Ancient Israel -- 16 Evolution is as History Does: On State Formation in Iron Age Transjordan -- 17 Iron Age State Formation in Greece -- 18 The Iron Age State as a State of Mind: A Response -- The Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Periods- Sixth Century through the Fourth Century C.E. -- 19 After the Return: Connections with the Classical World in the Persian Period.

20 Excavating Ethnic Strata: The Search for Hellenistic Phoenicians in the Upper Galilee of Israel* -- 21 Art as Cultural Artifact: Roman Sculpture in the Semitic East -- The Byzantine and Islamic Periods- The Fourth Century through Modern Times -- 22 Constructing the Past in the Cities of Byzantine Palestine -- 23 Byzantine Sepphoris: The Fourth Century as Viewed through Literary and Archaeological Sources -- 24 Southern Syria in the Islamic Period: Political Periphery or Nexus? -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A Centennial Program &amp -- Related Activities -- Appendix B Diplomacy and Archaeology: Past, Present and Future -- Appendix C Footsteps in the Dust: A Century of ASOR Discoveries in the Ancient Near East -- Index -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS/PRESENTERS.

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