Archaeology from Every Angle: Papers in Honor of Richard L. Zettler [Hardcover]

Archaeology from Every Angle brings together a wide range of scholars whose work has been influenced by Richard Zettler's career in Near Eastern archaeology. The volume includes work from various archaeological specialties including ceramics, small finds, seal impressions, mortuary practice, social identity, and zooarchaeology. Several contributors provide broader overviews of sites, architecture, and landscape features. Chronologically, this book spans the 5th millennium BCE through the Iron Age in the Near East. The breadth of the contributions to this book speak to the lasting and far-reaching impact Zettler has had on the field. Archaeology from Every Angle does what it says and brings together disparate topics and scholars to form a volume in honor of an archaeologist with a long and storied career.List of Figures List of tables Editors' preface Biography Bibliography: Richard Zettler 1 From Sumerian and Akkadian Proverbs to Arabic: Thematic Continuity Ali Y. Aljuboori 2 Polychrome Glazed Pottery and Gray Ware from Early 1st-Millennium BCE Nippur James A. Armstrong 3 On Colors, Shapes, and Size: The Means of Emergent Social Personae in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Aubrey Baadsgaard 4 Early Kassites East of the Tigris Tim Clayden 5 Our Minds in the Gutter: New Evidence on Early Iron Age Mudjesir from the Rowanduz Archaeological Program, Iraqi Kurdistan Michael D. Danti and Darren P. Ashby 6 Defining the Sacred in the Houses at Khafajah Jean M. Evans 7 The Isin-Larsa Sin Temple at Khafajah Relocated McGuire Gibson 8 Money in Mesopotamia Revisited: An Early Dynastic Silver Hoard from Khafajah W.B. Hafford 9 Jerusalem and Samaria: A Tale of Two Cities Jill Citron Katz 10 Grave M-134 at Ziyaret Tepe: An "Uncommon" Commoner's Burial of the Late Assyrian PlC2