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Leuven: Peeters, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Quarto (12" x 8-1/2"). xxii, 495, (5)pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with numerous charts, maps, photos and archaeolgical stratigraphic sections. An ex-library copy but with minimal rubber stamps on title page & at bottom of text block, otherwise fine. This volume is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation undertaken at The University of Sydney. It examines the florescene of urban society during the mid to late Third Millennium BCE in the northern Levant, focusing on the largely unexplored region of the upper Orontes Valley, specifically the site of Tell Nebi Mend, ancient Qadesh (on the Orontes). This work seeks to explore the role and significance of 'small' regional sites during the Early Bronze Age IV, by presenting a detailed stratigraphic and ceramic analysis of the Tell Nebi Mend sequence from the mid Third Millennium (Early Bronze Age III) through the early Second Millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age I). One of the…
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