Context and Connection: Studies on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of Antonio Sagona

Dedicated to Professor Antonio Sagona on the occasion of his 60th

birthday, this Festschrift commemorates his many contributions to the

archaeology of the ancient Near East. Featuring 64 chapters, Context

and Connection is focused largely but not exclusively on work

conducted in eastern Anatolia and the southern Caucasus, those regions

to which Professor Sagona has devoted his career. With contributions

from his colleagues, students and mentors - and much collaboration

between them - the volume is divided into six sections: Reflections,

Cultural connections, Landscape studies, Artefacts and architecture,

Scientific partnerships and Retrospectives and overviews. Containing

reports on recent archaeological studies, as well as expositions of

long-researched materials and sites, the chapters are intended to be of

use to the specialist scholar and student alike. Comprehensively

illustrated, and with abstracts in both Turkish and Georgian, this book

addresses established and emerging questions facing Near Eastern

archaeologists today.