Levy Thomas Evan (119 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Six thousand years ago, people living in the southern Levant moved from small, autonomous village lifestyles to complex social structures with innovations and products that remain today. Humans discovered how to irrigate the desert and grow fruit crops, and transform copper ore into a useable metal, for the first time. Pairing this with their artistic genius, people of the Chalcolithic period, or Copper Age, created stunning symbols of rank and power - metal standards, crowns and mace heads - and utilitarian objects unearthed by archaeologists in the Cave of the Treasure and other sites. Thomas Levy's adventurous journey with a team of international scientists to re-create the copper smelting processes used by our inventive ancestors is the highlight of this fascinating book.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Six thousand years ago, people living in the southern Levant moved from small, autonomous village lifestyles to complex social structures with innovations and products that remain today. Humans discovered how to irrigate the desert and grow fruit crops, and transform copper ore into a useable metal, for the first time. Pairing this with their artistic genius, people of the Chalcolithic period, or Copper Age, created stunning symbols of rank and power - metal standards, crowns and mace heads - and utilitarian objects unearthed by archaeologists in the Cave of the Treasure and other sites. Thomas Levy's adventurous journey with a team of international scientists to re-create the copper smelting processes used by our inventive ancestors is the highlight of this fascinating book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover: 184 pages. The catalog for the exciting exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Masters of Fire presents a comprehensive overview of the little-known yet extraordinary Chalcolithic culture, which existed in the southern Levant from 45003600 bce.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. paperback, illustrated, 624 pages, covers creased otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B238.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm . Contents: The discovery of the Chalcolithic Period / Daniel M. Master, Wheaton College Cultural transformations : the Chalcolithic Southern levant / Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego Imagery in the Chalcolithic Period / Dina Shalem, Institute for Galilean Archaeology, Kinneret College Spiritual life in the Southern Levant during the late Chalcolithic Period, 4500-3600 BCE / Osnat Misch-Brandl, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The mortuary process in the Chalcolithic Period / Yorke M. Rowan, University of Chicago The hoard from Nahal Mishmar, and the metalworking industry in Israel in the Chalcolithic Period / Michael Sebbane, Israel Antiquities Authority Textiles, basketry, and other organic artifacts of the Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant / Orit Shamir, Israel Antiquities Authority Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Masters of fire: Copper Age art from Israel, held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, February 13-June 8, 2014, and at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 28, 2014-January 4, 2015.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and inscribed to a fellow professor at UCSD--visible in photo. Book has light rubbing, and a pair of one centimeter pressure dents on back--visible in photo. Book interior is as new. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Paperback. Condition: New. The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.…

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