From handaxe to Khan : essays presented to Peder Mortensen on the occasion of his 70th birthday /
edited by Kjeld von Folsach, Henrik Thrane & Ingolf Thuesen.
- Aarhus ; Oakville, CT : Aarhus University Press, c2004.
- 332 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
From Jutland to Jordan / An introduction to the palaeolithic of Syria / Cores into tools : a technological device found in the Yabrudian industry of the Levant / Footprints in the sediments of Yabroud Rockshelter IV, Syria / Lithic economic systems and early sedentism / Campsites of the seasonally mobile in western Iran / Ubaid Mesopotamia revisited / Messages in stone : the megaliths of the Nebo region in Jordan / The chronology of the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan : results of the Belgian archaeological expedition in Iran / Elam's backstage / The numinous and the immanent : some thoughts on Kurangun and the Rudkhaneh-e Fahliyan / A palace without sealings? / Seleukos Nikator and Syria / From theatre to temple / The Shaikh Zuwaydeh mosaic on the border of Palestine and Egypt / Muhammad's letters / Three eastern Islamic leather wallets and three related stone press-moulds in the David collection / Saone - Sahyun - Qalaat Saladin / The architecture of hospitality : a madafah in Northern Jordan / An Egyptian qa'a in 16th century Damascus : representative halls in late Mamluk and early Ottoman residential architecture in Syria and Lebanon / Illustrations of Islam : reflections on the historical role of Muslim mass media / Archaeology and Islamic studies : the development of a relationship / Henrik Thrane -- Sultan Muhesen -- Rose L. Solecki -- Ralph S. Solecki -- Hans Georg K. Gebel -- Frank Hole -- Joan Oates -- Ingolf Thuesen -- Ernie Haerinck and Bruno Overlaet -- Hans J. Nissen -- D. T. Potts -- Erik Hallager -- Lise Hannestad -- Ross Burns -- Michele Piccirillo -- Jorgen Baek Simonsen -- Kjeld Von Folsach -- Olaf Olsen and Rikke Agnete Olsen -- Alison McQuitty -- Stefan Weber -- Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Alan Walmsley.