Edward L. Ochsenschlager

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.

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Edward L. Ochsenschlager is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College and director of excavations at Thmuis and Taposiris Magna in Egypt; and Sirmium in Yugoslavia; assistant director at al-Hiba in Iraq; and Shibam, Yemen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM PU
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781931707749
• ISBN-10: 193170774X
• Artikelnr.: 21622109

Autorenporträt

Edward L. Ochsenschlager is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College and director of excavations at Thmuis and Taposiris Magna in Egypt; and Sirmium in Yugoslavia; assistant director at al-Hiba in Iraq; and Shibam, Yemen.

Inhaltsangabe

1. In the Garden of Eden
2. The people of Al-Hiba
3. Ways and means
4. Mud household utensils and storage containers
5. Mud musical instruments, toys, jewelry, and ammunition
6. Mud architecture and ancillary structures
7. Baked pottery
8. Mats, baskets, and other objects made of reeds and rushes
9. Reed architecture
10. Wood, boats, and bitumen
11. Bovine husbandry
12. Sheep
13. Village weavers.
14. The photographs of John Henry Haynes
15. Death under glass