A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

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FURTHER READING

Alcock, Susan E., Terence N. D’Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison and Carla M. Sinopoli, eds. 2001.
Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. A
collection of excellent essays looking at ancient empires from anthropological and comparative
perspectives.
Emberling, Geoff. 1997. “Ethnicity in Complex Societies: Archaeological Perspectives.”Journal
of Archaeological Research, 5: 295–344. An approach to identifying ethnic differences in the
archaeological record, based on Barth’s notion of cultural difference.
Fales, Frederick Mario. 2013.War in the Assyrian Empire. London: Blackwell. The most recent
historical overview of the Assyrian Empire, focusing on warfare, but touching on recent research
on every aspect of ancient Assyria.
Galter, Hannes D. 1988. “28.800 Hethiter.”Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 40.2: 217–35.
Jones, Sˆıan. 2008. “Ethnicity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodological Implications.” In R.
Alexander Bentley, Herbert D. G. Maschner, and Christopher Chippindale, eds.,Handbook
of Archaeological Theories, 321–33. Lanham: AltaMira. A recent summary of archaeological
approaches to ethnicity, including particularly the author’s practice–theory approach.
Oates, Joan and David Oates. 2001.Nimrud:AnAssyrianImperialCityRevealed. London: British
School of Archaeology in Iraq. A synthesis of work at one Assyrian capital city, written by par-
ticipants in the excavations of the 1950s and 1960s.