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Nimrud - The Queens' Tombs (Hardcover): Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein Nimrud - The Queens' Tombs (Hardcover)
Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein; Edited by McGuire Gibson; Translated by Mark Altaweel
R3,131 Discovery Miles 31 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Muzahim Hussein's 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for archaeology. Although much is known of the Assyrian kings (8th/9th century B.C.), very little was known about the queens, with the exception of semi-mythical Semiramis. Now, for the first time, not only were actual remains and burial objects of Assyrian queens discovered, but also names and attempts through curses to protect the burials. Elaborate gold jewelry and other items in the tombs rivaled in quality and quantity that found in Egyptian royal tombs. A short scholarly publication of a few items, as well as limited coverage in the world's press, gave only hints of the importance of the objects in the tombs. Planned international exhibitions of the treasures from the tombs had to be cancelled due to war and sanctions. Hussein and Amer Suleiman published Nimrud: A City of Golden Treasures, in 1999, under extraordinarily difficult conditions, that could not do justice to the objects. The present volume, a joint publication of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and the Oriental Institute, is a new version of the finding of the tombs and their contents, giving much additional information derived from Hussein's continued analyses of classes of artifacts, accompanied by numerous full color plates.

Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes - How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations (Paperback,... Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes - How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations (Paperback, New)
McGuire Gibson, Magnus Widell, T J Wilkinson
R2,472 Discovery Miles 24 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume demonstrates how models can contribute to an understanding of the development of ancient Mesopotamian settlement and landscape. The models are intended to show that early settlements co-evolved in an intimate relationship with their physical and social environments. Local rules that determined the subsistence practices of the householder then developed into more complex social mechanisms which culminated in the emergence of complex systems of settlement. Data for the models is drawn from archaeological surveys, environmental archaeology, anthropology and cuneiform texts. Although initially intended as an investigation of how agent-based models can contribute to understanding urban growth, this volume adopts a more broad-brush approach to include both 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' models as well as mathematical and qualitative methods.

Irrigation's Impact on Society (Paperback): Theodore E. Downing, McGuire Gibson Irrigation's Impact on Society (Paperback)
Theodore E. Downing, McGuire Gibson
R928 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R194 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.

Nippur V - The Area WF Sounding: The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition (Hardcover): McGuire Gibson, Augusta Mcmahon, David... Nippur V - The Area WF Sounding: The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition (Hardcover)
McGuire Gibson, Augusta Mcmahon, David Reese, Pamela Vandiver
R3,296 Discovery Miles 32 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The excavation of area WF in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons at Nippur (1988/89, 1990) was aimed specifically at delineating the transition between the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods, and this goal has been realised. Augusta McMahon took on this task through two seasons, working tirelessly. Stratigraphic exposure of floor after floor of artefacts was slowed drastically by a complex stack of burials that took up almost half of the space in the pit. The pit was taken down until it reached Early Dynastic IIIa, and thus had the material to assess the passage from Early Dynastic to Akkadian in artifactual terms.

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