Archaeology Odyssey

Andrea Palladio, The Four Books of Andrea Palladio’s Architecture (English translation, 1738; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1995).

Vitruvius, Book I, preface 3, from Vitruvius on Architecture, ed. Thomas Gordon Smith (New York: Monacelli Press, forthcoming). All further quotations from Vitruvius are from this edition.

In Israel, for example: Munhata, Hamadiya, Habashan Street (Tel Aviv), Megiddo, Nahal Qanah Cave, Horvat Uza and Tel Qishion; in Lebanon: Byblos; in Jordan: Abu Tawwab, ‘Ain Ghazal, ‘Ein Rahub.

In a recently published book on urban development from late prehistory until the First Temple period, Ze’ev Herzog describes the Yarmukian era as “a major breakdown … The collapse is evident from the disintegration of all major settlements and the erection of small villages. The dominant dwelling form in this period is the circular house; in most cases these were only circular pits that formed the lower part of huts” (Ze’ev Herzog, Archaeology of the City [Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology, 1997], p. 27).

For a translation of Littman, see The Monuments of Aksum, David W. Phillipson, ed. (Addis Ababa University Press in collaboration with The British Institute in Eastern Africa: Addis Ababa and London, 1997).