From handaxe to Khan : essays presented to Peder Mortensen on the occasion of his 70th birthday / edited by Kjeld von Folsach, Henrik Thrane & Ingolf Thuesen.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Aarhus ; Oakville, CT : Aarhus University Press, [2004], ©2004.
Description
332 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

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  • From Jutland to Jordan / Henrik Thrane
  • An introduction to the palaeolithic of Syria / Sultan Muhesen
  • Cores into tools : a technological device found in the Yabrudian industry of the Levant / Rose L. Solecki
  • Footprints in the sediments of Yabroud Rockshelter IV, Syria / Ralph S. Solecki
  • Lithic economic systems and early sedentism / Hans Georg K. Gebel
  • Campsites of the seasonally mobile in western Iran / Frank Hole
  • Ubaid Mesopotamia revisited / Joan Oates
  • Messages in stone : the megaliths of the Nebo region in Jordan / Ingolf Thuesen
  • The chronology of the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan : results of the Belgian archaeological expedition in Iran / Ernie Haerinck and Bruno Overlaet
  • Elam's backstage / Hans J. Nissen
  • The numinous and the immanent : some thoughts on Kurangun and the Rudkhaneh-e Fahliyan / D. T. Potts
  • A palace without sealings? / Erik Hallager
  • Seleukos Nikator and Syria / Lise Hannestad
  • From theatre to temple / Ross Burns
  • The Shaikh Zuwaydeh mosaic on the border of Palestine and Egypt / Michele Piccirillo
  • Muhammad's letters / Jorgen Baek Simonsen
  • Three eastern Islamic leather wallets and three related stone press-moulds in the David collection / Kjeld Von Folsach
  • Saone - Sahyun - Qalaat Saladin / Olaf Olsen and Rikke Agnete Olsen
  • The architecture of hospitality : a madafah in Northern Jordan / Alison McQuitty
  • An Egyptian qa'a in 16th century Damascus : representative halls in late Mamluk and early Ottoman residential architecture in Syria and Lebanon / Stefan Weber
  • Illustrations of Islam : reflections on the historical role of Muslim mass media / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
  • Archaeology and Islamic studies : the development of a relationship / Alan Walmsley.
ISBN
8779341071 (pbk.)
LCCN
2005271150
OCLC
57046829
RCP
C - S
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