Iraq s Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Edward Ochsenschlager’s book looks at the material culture of peoples living near the excavations at al-Hiba, in what is now southern Iraq, from 1968 to 1990. It focuses on the ethnoarchaeological question of what can the present tell us about the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Edward L. Ochsenschlager, Ochsenschlager Edward L.
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2004
• EAN: 9781931707749
• ISBN: 978-1-931707-74-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Middle Eastern