Near East Series

	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 -- $76-- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $51 -- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $58
	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 -- $65
	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 -- $66 -- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $70 -- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $70  -- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $58 -- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $55 -- Available on CD-Rom
	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 -- $66 -- Available on CD-Rom
Please also see in Early Man Series: The Shanidar NeandertalsThe Palaeolithic of Mount Carmel