TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bicknell,Jessica
AU  - Falcetano,Michael
AU  - Ferrari,Martina
AU  - Frame,Grant
AU  - Hafford,William B.
AU  - Holod,Renata
AU  - Jones,Philip
AU  - Miller,Naomi F.
AU  - Moore,Katherine M.
AU  - Owens,Ellen
AU  - Pittman,Holly
AU  - Ristvet,Lauren
AU  - Sonik,Karen
AU  - Spooner,Brian
AU  - Tinney,Steve
AU  - Zettler,Richard L.
TI  - Journey to the City: A Companion to the Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum 
SN  - 9781931707176
AV  - HT147.M628 J68 2019
U1  - 307.760956 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Anthropological museums and collections
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Archaeological museums and collections
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Dedication --; Donor Acknowledgments --; Director's Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Map of the Ancient Middle East --; Timeline of Key Periods and Developments --; 1. The New Middle East Galleries at the Penn Museum --; 2. The Geography and Agriculture of the Middle East --; 3. The First Cities --; 4. Religion and the Gods --; 5. A View from the Highlands --; 6. Nomads --; 7. The Ancient Near Eastern City: 2100–500 BCE --; 8. The Royal Cemetery of Ur --; 9. Hasanlu --; 10. The City under Empire: Nippur from 1000 BCE to 800 CE --; 11. The Medieval and Early Modern Islamic and Persianate City --; 12. The Modern City --; 13. Epilogue: The Middle East and Globalization --; Appendix: Timeline of Penn Museum Excavations in Iraq and Iran --; References --; Author Biographies --; Figure Credits; restricted access
N2  - The Penn Museum has a long and storied history of research and archaeological exploration in the ancient Middle East. This book highlights this rich depth of knowledge while also serving as a companion volume to the Museum's signature Middle East Galleries opening in April 2018. This edited volume includes chapters and integrated short, focused pieces from Museum curators and staff actively involved in the detailed planning of the new galleries. In addition to highlighting the most remarkable and interesting objects in the Museum's extraordinary Middle East collections, this volume illuminates the primary themes within these galleries (make, settle, connect, organize, and believe) and provides a larger context within which to understand them.The ancient Middle East is home to the first urban settlements in human history, dating to the fourth millennium BCE; therefore, tracing this move toward city life figures prominently in the book. The topic of urbanization, how it came about and how these early steps still impact our daily lives, is explored from regional and localized perspectives, bringing us from Mesopotamia (Ur, Uruk, and Nippur) to Islamic and Persianate cites (Rayy and Isfahan) and, finally, connecting back to life in modern Philadelphia. Through examination of topics such as landscape, resources, trade, religious belief and burial practices, daily life, and nomads, this very important human journey is investigated both broadly and with specific case studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781931707176?locatt=mode:legacy
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