Raphael Greenberg (Tel-Aviv University)

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A richly documented and illustrated survey of the archaeology of a crucible of world culture, covering the earliest urban cultures and the emergence of states. This book is a key resource for students of the ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Mediterranean, and a valuable reference work for scholars in related disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge World Archaeology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781107529137
• ISBN-10: 1107529131
• Artikelnr.: 56875461

Autorenporträt

Raphael Greenberg is associate professor of archaeology at Tel-Aviv University. Specializing in the study of early urban formations, economies and institutions, he currently heads the Tel Bet Yerah excavations near the Sea of Galilee and is co-founder of Emek Shaveh - a non-profit organization that monitors the political role of archaeology in Jerusalem and beyond.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Villages and the growth of social power in the Early Bronze I; 3. Urbanism and its demise in the Early Bronze II and III; 4. The Intermediate Bronze Age
entering the orbit of Syria; 5. Villages, manors, and integrated city-states of the Middle Bronze Age; 6. The Late Bronze Age
under Egypt's heel; 7. Conclusion
the legacy of the Bronze Age Levant.