, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Paperback, Pages: xii + 164 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:42 b/w, 56 col., 9 tables b/w., Language:English, *New. ISBN 9782503616681.
Landscape archaeology has, in recent years, expanded as a discipline to include various aspects of human-environment interactions in the past. In line with this trend, this volume offers a comprehensive perspective on three topics: theoretical and textual approaches to landscape, which provides an important framework for interdisciplinary research; the use of land and resources, which, while a popular topic in Southwest Asian archaeology, remains relatively understudied in connection to ancient technologies; and human impact on the highlands. The contributions gathered in this volume cover topics as diverse as agricultural practices, metallurgy, trade, and environmental research, and draw together evidence from both textual and material evidence to shed light on different places and periods from the Bronze Age through to the Roman era. Together, these varied case studies offer new insights into how different methods can be utilized to assess unique patterns in human-environment interactions in Southwest Asia. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction: The Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology (SNELA) Gonca Dardeniz and B lent Ar?kan Landscapes 1. Highlands of Elmali Plain (Antalya) B lent Ar?kan and Hilal Seren ?ahin 2. Exposing the Settlement of Historic Landscapes in Vegetated Terrain: The Jezreel Valley Experience Jeffrey C. Howry 3. Wadi Al Helo: Testimony of Bronze Age Human Impacts on the Highlands Khuloud Alhouli and Ossama Khalil 4. Toward the Militarized Use of Landscape: Northwest Iran during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (c. 1450?1050 BCE) Zahra Kouzehgari and Bita Khaterizadeh 5. The Commagene Land Use Wisdom Yaprak Tanr?verdi, Erhan Ak a, Kahraman Ya??z, Kemal Zorlu, and Muzaffer z iri? Highland and Lowland Products and Resources: Theories and Textual Records 6. Trade and the Use of Resources in the Ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age Jan Gerrit Dercksen 7. The Importance of Boat Transport for Ur III Economy: A Preliminary Study Virginia Cara Girardi Material Evidence 8. In the Light of New Evidence of Long-Distance Obsidian Trade and Possible Central Place Distribution at the Upper Plain in Cilicia Orkun Hamza Kayci and F sun T lek 9. Arsenical Copper Metallurgy in Anatolia and Iran: A Comparative Approach Timur G zey, Mohammadamin Emami, and Gonca Dardeniz 10. The Beginning of Beekeeping in Western Asia and the Levant with some Comments on the Aegean Prentiss de Jesus 11. Agricultural Production on the Nif Mountain (?zmir) G knur Bekta? 12. Surviving the Valley of Plenty: The Earliest Iron Age Occupation at Tell Tayinat (Turkiye) through a Zooarchaeological Lens Radovan Kabatiar