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Catal Huyuk
Partial excavations of Catal Huyuk in the 1960's revealed 14 building levels dating
between 7250-6250 B.C., and of a previously unknown neolithic culture. The text updates
out-of-print earlier reports. Included are site maps, excavation photos and drawings, and
the artifacts now in the Ankara Museum. By James Mellaart.
91 slides -- $173 |
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Jericho
This set covers the earliest levels of the site, from the earliest Mesolithic settlement
to the destruction of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B town (ca. 9000 B.C. - 6500 B.C.)
Included are the plastered portrait skulls found under house floors, utilitarian objects,
and black and white slides of the Kenyon 1950's-1960's excavations. By Pictures
of Record.
56 slides -- $116 |
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Jawa and Tell Um Hammad
Excavations at Jawa, a large fortified site of the Early Bronze Age, and Tell Um Hammad,
an open village settlement, reveal social and economic contact between the uplands of
southern Syria and the central Jordan Valley. Through successive abandonment and
re-occupation of both sites, a picture emerges of the tides of social change in the 4th
millennium B.C. By Alison Betts.
72 slides -- $132 |
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Tel Dan
The Dan of the Bible has been identified with a 50-acre site in Galilee, known as Laish in
the Canaanite period. Included are finds from the 3rd millennium B.C.E. to the Hellenistic
and Roman period, such as a 4,000-year-old mudbrick gate, Mycenaean and other pottery, an
Israelite high place, and a Roman fountain house. By Avraham Biran.
80 slides -- $147 |
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Petra
The "rose-red city" of Petra in modern Jordan, capital of the Nabatean kingdom
and a powerful administrative and trade center for centuries, reached its great flowering
in the reign of Aretas IV (9 B.C. -- A.D.40), with the building of magnificent
rock-cut tombs, triclinia and free-standing public buildings with sumptuous facades. By
Philip C. Hammond.
85 slides -- $151 |
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The Natufian Culture
Unique in the evolution of human societies in the Near East, the Natufian culture was a
threshold to the Early Neolithic. Although probably still hunter-gatherers between 12,400
and 10,200 B.P., their steps toward a sedentary way of life has led researchers to
postulate early villages. This set emphasizes the architecture as well as domestic and
ritual artifacts. By François Valla and Ofer Bar Yosef.
89 slides -- $158 |
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Hazor
The 21 strata of Hazor, north of Tiberias, cover Early Bronze II through the Hellenistic
period. Mentioned in the Egyptian Execration Texts (19th-18th centuries B.C.), the Mari
and El-Amarna documents and the Old Testament, Hazor is one of the rare excavated sites
which can be positively identified with cities named in literature. Included are Canaanite
and Israelite plans and architecture, water supply systems and ritual centers. By
Pictures of Record.
90 slides -- $158 |
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Jerash
Founded in Jordan during the Hellenistic period, ancient Gerasa, between the reigns of
Trajan and Hadrian (A.D. 98-138) was a member of the Decapolis and a thriving commercial
city. This set focuses mainly on the Roman settlement, with its handsome plazas,
colonnaded streets, temples, theatres and baths. By Jerome Schaefer.
71 slides -- $132 |
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Pella of the Decapolis
This site reflects more than 5,000 years of prehistory and history. In the foothills
of Transjordan, Pella lasted as a commercial center through Canaanite, Hellenistic, Roman,
Byzantine and Umayyad domination. The changing artifacts and architecture of Pella
graphically document the life of a town mentioned almost 4 millennia ago in Egyptian
conquest lists. By Robert H. Smith.
65 slides -- $126 |
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Mosaics of Jordan
In early 4th century Transjordan, Christians began the building of churches with
impressive architecture and decoration -- colored mosaic floors depicting local flora and
fauna, city scapes, pastoral and hunting scenes and at least one map. Included are 5th and
7th century Byzantine mosaics and some church architecture. By Bastiaan Van Elderen.
84 slides -- $151 |
| Please also see in
Early Man Series:
The Shanidar Neandertals
The Palaeolithic of Mount Carmel |
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