The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium

This doctoral thesis is an excellent textbook on the Prehistoric Near East especially since much of the history that we know of the area up to and including the Neolithic occurred in the Levant. I think you will find also that the time frame of this book agrees with current sources .....

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CHAPTER 1: ABSTRACT / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / INTRODUCTION

THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE LEVANT IN THE
LATE PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE

LATE PLEISTOCENE / SUMMARY

EARLY HOLOCENE / SUMMARY

CHAPTER 2: THE MESOLITHIC OF THE LEVANT

MESOLITHIC 1 / SETTLEMENT PATTERNS / ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

MESOLITHIC 2 / SETTLEMENT PATTERNS / ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER 3: NEOLITHIC 1 / DISTRIBUTION OF SITES / ECONOMY / DISCUSSION

JERICHO / NAHAL OREN / MUGHARET WAD / RAKAFET / KHIAM /
GILGAL / POLEG / BEIDHA / HAR HARIF / NACHARINI /
MUREYBAT / ASWAD / SAIDNAYA

CHAPTER 4: NEOLITHIC 2 / MIDDLE EUPHRATES: MUREYBAT / ABU
HUREYRA / BOUQRAS / ASWAD (BALIKH) / FAKHARIYAH /
ABDUL AZIZ / KUM / PALMYRA REGION

WEST SYRIA: ASWAD / RAMAD / GHORAIFE / LABWEH / SCIES
MEHDI SAAIDEH / NACHARINI / MUGHARET ABDE /
HAURAN / UGARIT / SLENFE

PALESTINE: JERICHO / NAHAL OREN / KHIAM / MUNHATTA

MOUNT CARMEL: IRAQ BARUD / MEGIDDO / JORDAN VALLEY:
BEISAMUN / KFAR GILADI / SHEIKH ALI / TELEILAT GHASSUL /
JUDEAN HILLS: TELL FARAH (NORTH) / ABU GOSH

NEGEV AND SINAI / TRANSJORDAN PLATEAU:
WADI DHOBAI / BEIDHA

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PALESTINIAN AND WEST
SYRIAN AND MIDDLE EUPHRATES SITES IN NEOLITHIC 2

PRINCIPAL CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEOLITHIC 2 SETTLEMENTS
DISTRIBUTION OF SITES / ECONOMY: MIDDLE EUPHRATES SITES
WEST SYRIAN SITES / PALESTINIAN SITES / DISCUSSION

CHAPTER 5: NEOLITHIC 3 / MIDDLE EUPHRATES

NORTH SYRIA: RAS SHAMRA / TELL SUKAS / HAMA / HOMS /
QALAT MUDIQ / JANUDIYEH / TELL JUDAIDAH / TELL SHEIKH /
MERSIN / SAKCAGOZU / TELL TURLU / JUDAIDAH JABBUL

SOUTH SYRIA: LEBANESE COAST: BYBLOS / KUBBAH / TABBAT HAMMAM /
BEKAA VALLEY: TELL LABWEH / NEBA'A (NEBAA) FAOUR / TELL SHAMSINE /
TELL HASHBAI / BEISAMUN / TANNUR / QAT / AIN HASHOMER /
KFAR GILADI / HAGOSHERIM / TELL TURMUS / KABRI /
DAMASCUS BASIN: TELL RAMAD

PALESTINE / SOUTH PALESTINE / NORTH PALESTINE

PRINCIPAL CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEOLITHIC 3 SETTLEMENTS
TIMESPAN OF NEOLITHIC 3 / DISTRIBUTION OF SITES /
ECONOMY / DISCUSSION

CHAPTER 6: NEOLITHIC 4 / SOUTH SYRIA: LEBANESE COAST: BYBLOS /
DBAYE / NACCACHE / TELL ARSLAN / MUKTARA / OTHER
LEBANESE COAST SURFACE STATIONS CONTEMPORARY
NEOLITHIQUE MOYEN BYBLOS / LEBANESE COAST HEAVY
NEOLITHIC (CAMPIGNIAN) SITES

BEKAA VALLEY: TELL ARD TLAILI / TELL AIN NFAIKH / REMAINING
BEKAA SITES CONTEMPORARY NEOLITHIQUE MOYEN BYBLOS /
BEKAA HEAVY NEOLITHIC (CAMPIGNIAN) SITES / KARAOUN /
OTHER HEAVY NEOLITHIC SITES BEKAA

DAMASCUS BASIN: TELL KHAZZAMI / TELL RAMAD

PALESTINE: SOUTH PALESTINE: JERICHO / OTHER SOUTH PALESTINIAN SITES
NORTH PALESTINE: MUNHATTA / SHEIKH ALI / WEST PALESTINE: WADI
RABAH / TELULIOT BATASHI / BASHAN STREET (TEL AVIV) /
SITE 8/17 / HAZOREA

OTHER WEST PALESTINE SITES / NORTHERN PALESTINE
HEAVY NEOLITHIC SITES / SUPPLEMENTARY PALESTINIAN
NEOLITHIC 3 AND 4 SITES

DISTRIBUTION OF NEOLITHIC 4 SITES / ECONOMY /
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND TRADE

CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION (BOOK SUMMARY)

Ancient Near East Excerpts

01.html The PreHistoric Near East and the Natufian Culture (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

03.html The Natufian Culture (The Neolithic of the Near East)

04.html The Fauna at Kebara / Natuf / Ain Mallaha (The Neolithic of the Near East)

06.html Kebaran Sites: Wadi Madamagh and Nahal Oren (The Neolithic of the Near East)

09.html Dissertation on Northern and Southern Mesopotamia (The Advent of the Era of Townships in Northern Mesopotamia)

10.html Mesopotamian Civilization (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

11.html A Short Excerpt on the Time Between the Fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the Rise of Babylon (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

13.html The Great Kingdoms of the Levant (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

15.html The Levant from the Epi-Paleolithic to the End of the Aceramic Period (The Neolithic of the Near East)

18.html The Hyksos (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

19.html Egyptian Pre-History and Proto-History (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

22.html The Hittites (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

23.html The Hurrians (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

24.html The Hurrians (The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East)

25.html Urukian Trade on the Iranian Plateau (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

26.html THE THREAT OF ASSYRIA (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

27.html Assyrian Geography (The Advent of the Era of Townships in Northern Mesopotamia)

28.html Assyrian Geographical Framework (The Might That Was Assyria)

29.html Intrusive Mesopotamian Enclave at Nineveh (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

30.html Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Palestinian Culture (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

31.html Tell Brak Enclave (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

32.html Byblos (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

33.html Ai or Et Tell (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

35.html Elam -- Khuzestan -- Susiana Plain (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

#36 (Amorites) -- Abram (Abraham) the Hebrew (Habiru) reckoned Amorite groups as his confederates ... (Who Were the Amorites?)

39.html URUK ENCLAVES -- STATIONS -- OUTPOSTS (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

46.html Arad (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

47.html Tell Ajjul (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

50.html Aswad et Ghoraife: Sites Neolithiques en Damscene Syria (American Journal of Archaeology)

52.html Frost Weathering at Jerf Ajla and Yabrud (Analysis of Sediments of Jerf Ajla and Yabrud Rockshelter)

54.html Godin Tepe (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

57.html Habuba Kabira and its Acropolis Tell Qannas (The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization)

58.html The North Sinai (Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times)

60.html Chapter 2: Babylonia and Assyria (Circa 2000-1350 BC) (The Greatness That Was Babylon)

62.html Rehoboam (Antiquities of the Jews) Flavius Josephus

63.html The Hittites (The Kingdom of the Hittites)

65.html Jerusalem (Excavations at Jerusalem) Kenyon

67.html The Fall of Troy (Antiquity) Carl Nylander

68.html Two Bone Hafts From Northern Iraq (Antiquity) Ralph Solecki

76.html The Nabateans: A Historical Sketch (Biblical Archaeologist) Jean Starcky

77.html The Mousterian Industries of Yabroud Shelter I: A Reconsideration (Rose Solecki and Ralph Solecki)

78.html The Mysteries of Ugarit (Near Eastern Archaeology) Volume 63 : December 2000

90.html Outline on Pre-Historic Lithic Industries (PreHistoric Art and Civilization)

149.html Chapter 1: New Perspectives on the Transition to Agriculture (Last Hunters -- First Farmers) Editors

150.html Chapter 2: The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (Last Hunters -- First Farmers) Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard Meadow

152.html Chapter 2 Subheading: The Near East and its PaleoClimate Record (Last Hunters -- First Farmers) Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard Meadow

211.html Subartu is the region to the northwest of Assyria ... (The Early PreHistory of Mesopotamia)

Mission or Statement of Purpose: In as much as I am an individual and not affiliated with any educational group or organization I wish to convey my appreciation to all those entities involved in the publication of the wealth of material on the ever more studied and increasingly popular subject of the Ancient Near East. At times the immensity of the effort necessary to achieve my goal of a concise and yet comprehensive collection of abstracts (compendium) as a portal to further studies has made me consider ceasing my labour of love on the subject. But each time I have felt compelled to return to my endeavours, realizing at last that this is a work of a lifetime and that no one could with any hope possibly read in totality the staggering amount of material on the subject. Admittedly I am the author of original material only to the extent of my reading and consolidating articles into what I consider most relevant to a beginning or intermediate comprehension of the subject; and of course the additions derived from my own studies (addendums) ...

Mark Alan McDonald / Bookmark