A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- Contents -- Volume I -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Maps -- PART I: The Framework -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Geography, Climate, Topography, and Hydrology -- CHAPTER TWO: Antiquarianism, Copying, Collecting -- CHAPTER THREE: Early Excavations (pre-1914) -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Foundations of Antiquities Departments -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Political Dimension of Archaeological Practices -- CHAPTER SIX: The Antiquities Trade and the Destruction of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures -- PART II: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Levant -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Anatolia -- PART III: Developments in Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Technology -- CHAPTER NINE: The Beginnings of Cereal Cultivation and Domestication in Southwest Asia -- CHAPTER TEN: Fruit-Growing -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Animals in the Ancient World -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Fish and Fishing -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Lithic Industries During the Holocene Period -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Irrigation -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Ceramic Production -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Metallurgy -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Glass -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Textiles -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: Watercraft -- PART IV: Varieties of Early Village and Town Life -- CHAPTER TWENTY: The Northern Levant -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Southern Levant -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Northern Mesopotamia -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Late Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic of the Anatolian Plateau, 13,000-4000 bc -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Southern Mesopotamia -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Arabian Peninsula -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Iranian Plateau -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Southwestern Iran -- PART V: Bronze Age Cities of the Plains and the Highlands -- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Southern Mesopotamia -- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Northern Mesopotamia.

CHAPTER THIRTY: The Anatolian Plateau -- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Iran -- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: The Northern Levant -- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: The Southern Levant -- Volume II -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Maps -- PART VI: The Archaeology of Empire -- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: The Akkadian Period: Empire, Environment, and Imagination -- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Caucasus and the Near East -- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Central Asia, the Steppe, and the Near East, 2500-1500 bc -- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires -- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: The Hittite Empire -- CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Elam: Iran's First Empire -- CHAPTER FORTY: India's Relations with Western Empires, 2300-600 bc -- CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age -- CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Neo-Hittite and Phrygian Kingdoms of North Syria and Anatolia -- CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: North Arabian Kingdoms -- CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Egypt and the Near East -- CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: The Assyrian Heartland -- CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: The Assyrians Abroad -- CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: The Urartian Empire -- CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia -- CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: The Neo-Babylonian Empire -- CHAPTER FIFTY: The Achaemenid Heartland: An Archaeological-Historical Perspective -- CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective -- CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: The Seleucid Kingdom -- CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE: The Arsacid (Parthian) Empire -- CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: Roman Rule in the Near East -- CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: The Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the Age of the Great Empires -- CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: Byzantium in Asia Minor and the Levant -- CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN: The Sasanian Empire: An Archaeological Survey, c.220-ad 640 -- CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT: Christianity in the Late Antique Near East -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index.