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Early Urbanizations in the Levant: A Regional Narrative - Couverture souple

Greenberg, Raphael

 
9781350345256: Early Urbanizations in the Levant: A Regional Narrative
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1350345253 ISBN 13 : 9781350345256
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

This critical examination of the first cycle of urbanization, collapse and reurbanization in the 4th-2nd millennium BCE Levant is now reissued with a new preface reflecting on developments in research since its first publication. The core of the study is a detailed analysis of settlement fluctuations and material culture development in the Hula Valley, at the crossroads between modern Israel, Syria and Lebanon. Focusing on field data and a close reading of the material text, the book emphasizes the variety exhibited in patterns of cultural and social change when small, densely settled regions are carefully scrutinized. Using the concepts of time-space edges and shifting loci of power, the study suggests new scenarios to explain changes in the regional archaeological record, and considers the implications these have for existing reconstructions of social evolution in the larger region. The Levant is shown to be composed of a fluid mosaic of polities that moved along multiple, if often parallel, paths towards and away from complexity. This book is for anyone studying the archaeology of early state formation in the Near East, particularly in areas of secondary urbanization - Palestine, Syria and Anatolia. With its detailed consideration of settlement patterns and ceramic production, it is also indispensable for the study of the early history of the two major sites in the area, Tel Dan and Tel Hazor, being the first attempt to integrate the results of excavations at these sites with the information obtained in archaeological surveys of the valley which sustained them.

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À propos de l'auteur

Raphael Greenberg is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1350345253
ISBN 13 
9781350345256
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
154
Coordonnées du fabricant
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