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The Ladder of Progress in Palestine : A Story of Archaeological Adventure

by: McCown, C.C.

Price: 49,30 EURO

1 copy in stock
 
Category: Prehistory
Code: 8659
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Publication Date: 1943
Publication Place: New York
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 387
Book Condition: Very good
Comments: Ex-Library

The ladder of progress in Palestine : a story of archaeological adventure

Author: Chester Charlton McCown

xvi, 387 pages, 27 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm


Contents:
The magic of method
Seventy-five thousand years before history began
The search for the earliest inhabitants
Man's slow ascent
Man builds cities
Jericho, Palestine's oldest city
Tell Beit Mirsim
The quest for an alphabet
On the Egyptian frontier
Border cities of the Shephelah
Beth-Shan
Armageddon and Solomon the horse trader
Luxurious Samaria
The mountains round about Jerusalem
Jerusalem
The search for Jesus' tomb
Neglected Galilee
Remains of "normative Judaism"
Between the desert and the sown
Gerasa : a Roman caravan city
Byzantines, Arabs, and crusaders
What to believe

Includes indexes

 

Subjects:
Antiquities
Archaeology
Archaeology History
Archäologie
Archeology History
Archéologie Histoire
Ausgrabung
Biblische Archäologie
Eretz Israel Antiquities
Eretz Israel Antiquities Research
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Palestine
Fouilles (Archéologie) Palestine
History
Middle East Palestine
Palästina
Palestine Antiquités
Palestine Antiquities

 
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The Ladder of Progress in Palestine : A Story of Archaeological Adventure

by: McCown, C.C.

  • Harper & Brothers, New York, 1943

Price: 49,30 EURO

1 copy in stock