The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation from the Neolithic to the Iron Age

by Peter Magee

Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world. This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of this region from c. 9000 to 800 BC. Peter Magee argues that a unique social system, which relied on social cohesion and actively resisted the hierarchical structures of adjacent states, emerged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521862310
• ISBN13: 9780521862318
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.1"