Raphael Greenberg

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1005g
• ISBN-13: 9781107111462
• ISBN-10: 1107111463
• Artikelnr.: 56036006

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.