Agypten und Levante XXX / Egypt and the Levant XXX

English summary: Content: Manfred Bietak, Ernst Czerny, Vorwort fur das Herausgebergremium/ Preface for the Editorial Board A farewell to our dear friend and colleague Jochen Holger Schutkowski (1956-2020) (Manfred Bietak) E. Christiana Kohler, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis Responses Barbara E. Barich, Comment to: “Christiana Kohler, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – An epistemological analysis” Krzysztof M. Cialowicz, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – a different perspective Stan Hendrickx and Frank Forster, Violence and the early Egyptian state Mariusz A. Jucha, The so-called “Naqadian expansion” to the north and the new archaeological evidence for the fall and development of Nile Delta settlements during the second half of the IVth Millennium BC Agnieszka Maczynska, Shaky foundations of the Egyptian civilisation. Response article to Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis by E. Christiana Kohler, Vienna Andrea Manzo, Clash of civilisations on the First Cataract? A southern point of view, from old assumptions to new complexities Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis by E. Christiana Kohler, Vienna. Commentary Tell el-Retaba Lukasz Jarmuzek, Slawomir Rzepka and Agnieszka Rys, Tell el-Retaba in the 1st Millennium BC. Results of the Polish-Slovak Archaeological Mission, season 2019 Anna Grezak, Animal economy at the settlement at Tell el-Retaba in the Third Intermediate Period reconstructed on the basis of faunal remains excavated in seasons 2014-2019 Claire Malleson, Chaff, dung, and wood: fuel use at Tell el-Retaba. Archaeobotanical investigations in the Third Intermediate Period settlement, Area 9 excavations 2015-2019 Katarzyna Trzcinska and Anna Wodzinska, ‘Pigeon pots’ from Tell el-Retaba Agypten und Levante Bd 30.indb 7 13.12.2020 10:02:43 8 Inhaltsverzeichnis/Contents Maria Choleva, Reinhard Jung and Eleftheria Kardamaki, Working on the potter’s wheel: technological insights into Mycenaean pottery production Sabina Cvecek, Throwing their weights around? Anthropological perspectives on commodity and gift exchange at the dawn of the Early Bronze Age in western Anatolia Francesco I. De Magistris, Yarimuta as the Yarkon River Valley Aaron M. de Souza, Pots, gold, and viceroys: shifting dynamics of Egyptian-Nubian relations at the transition to the New Kingdom, from the viewpoint of Middle Nubian pottery at Tell Edfu Filip Frankovic and Uros Matic, The lion, the weapon and the warlord: historical evaluation of the early Late Bronze Age Aegean iconography Haskel. J. Greenfield, Tina L. Greenfield, Elizabeth Arnold, Itzick Shai, Shira Albaz and Aren M. Maeir, Evidence for movement of goods and animals from Egypt to Canaan during the Early Bronze of the southern Levant: A view from Tell e?-?afi/Gath Alicja Jurgielewicz, The iconography of fish in the Nagada culture Magdalena Kazimierczak and Konrad Grzyb, Distribution of the pottery coffins and ceramic vessels within the Early Dynastic graves from Tell el-Murra cemetery Kacper Laube, The lost necropolis and the sacred landscape of Leontopolis (Tell el-Moqdam) Maciej Makowski, Third-millennium BC clay figurines from Tell Djassa el Gharbi, Tell Abu Hafur and Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria) Pierre Meyrat, Goddess ‘name’ or name of a goddess? Astarte and her epithet on the stela of Betu (TBO 760) Silvia Prell, Hard to pin down – clothing pins in the Eastern Delta of Egypt and their diffusion in the Middle Bronze Age Krzysztof Radtke, Application of hypothetical square grids to the analysis of proportions of seated human figures in the Old Kingdom relief Jonathon Wylie and Daniel Master, The conditions for Philistine ethnogenesis Sharon Zuckerman, Shlomit Bechar, David Ben-Shlomo, Hans Mommsen and Penelope A. Mountjoy, Neutron activation analysis of Mycenaean pottery from north Israel: reconstruction of Aegean-Levantine trade patterns German description: Manfred Bietak, Ernst Czerny, Vorwort fur das Herausgebergremium/ Preface for the Editorial Board A farewell to our dear friend and colleague Jochen Holger Schutkowski (1956-2020) (Manfred Bietak) E. Christiana Kohler, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis Responses Barbara E. Barich, Comment to: “Christiana Kohler, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – An epistemological analysis” Krzysztof M. Cialowicz, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – a different perspective Stan Hendrickx and Frank Forster, Violence and the early Egyptian state Mariusz A. Jucha, The so-called “Naqadian expansion” to the north and the new archaeological evidence for the fall and development of Nile Delta settlements during the second half of the IVth Millennium BC Agnieszka Maczynska, Shaky foundations of the Egyptian civilisation. Response article to Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis by E. Christiana Kohler, Vienna Andrea Manzo, Clash of civilisations on the First Cataract? A southern point of view, from old assumptions to new complexities Beatrix Midant-Reynes, Of culture wars and the clash of civilizations in Prehistoric Egypt – an epistemological analysis by E. Christiana Kohler, Vienna. Commentary Tell el-Retaba Lukasz Jarmuzek, Slawomir Rzepka and Agnieszka Rys, Tell el-Retaba in the 1st Millennium BC. Results of the Polish-Slovak Archaeological Mission, season 2019 Anna Grezak, Animal economy at the settlement at Tell el-Retaba in the Third Intermediate Period reconstructed on the basis of faunal remains excavated in seasons 2014-2019 Claire Malleson, Chaff, dung, and wood: fuel use at Tell el-Retaba. Archaeobotanical investigations in the Third Intermediate Period settlement, Area 9 excavations 2015-2019 Katarzyna Trzcinska and Anna Wodzinska, ‘Pigeon pots’ from Tell el-Retaba Agypten und Levante Bd 30.indb 7 13.12.2020 10:02:43 8 Inhaltsverzeichnis/Contents Maria Choleva, Reinhard Jung and Eleftheria Kardamaki, Working on the potter’s wheel: technological insights into Mycenaean pottery production Sabina Cvecek, Throwing their weights around? Anthropological perspectives on commodity and gift exchange at the dawn of the Early Bronze Age in western Anatolia Francesco I. De Magistris, Yarimuta as the Yarkon River Valley Aaron M. de Souza, Pots, gold, and viceroys: shifting dynamics of Egyptian-Nubian relations at the transition to the New Kingdom, from the viewpoint of Middle Nubian pottery at Tell Edfu Filip Frankovic and Uros Matic, The lion, the weapon and the warlord: historical evaluation of the early Late Bronze Age Aegean iconography Haskel. J. Greenfield, Tina L. Greenfield, Elizabeth Arnold, Itzick Shai, Shira Albaz and Aren M. Maeir, Evidence for movement of goods and animals from Egypt to Canaan during the Early Bronze of the southern Levant: A view from Tell e?-?afi/Gath Alicja Jurgielewicz, The iconography of fish in the Nagada culture Magdalena Kazimierczak and Konrad Grzyb, Distribution of the pottery coffins and ceramic vessels within the Early Dynastic graves from Tell el-Murra cemetery Kacper Laube, The lost necropolis and the sacred landscape of Leontopolis (Tell el-Moqdam) Maciej Makowski, Third-millennium BC clay figurines from Tell Djassa el Gharbi, Tell Abu Hafur and Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria) Pierre Meyrat, Goddess ‘name’ or name of a goddess? Astarte and her epithet on the stela of Betu (TBO 760) Silvia Prell, Hard to pin down – clothing pins in the Eastern Delta of Egypt and their diffusion in the Middle Bronze Age Krzysztof Radtke, Application of hypothetical square grids to the analysis of proportions of seated human figures in the Old Kingdom relief Jonathon Wylie and Daniel Master, The conditions for Philistine ethnogenesis Sharon Zuckerman, Shlomit Bechar, David Ben-Shlomo, Hans Mommsen and Penelope A. Mountjoy, Neutron activation analysis of Mycenaean pottery from north Israel: reconstruction of Aegean-Levantine trade patterns

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