Urbanism in antiquity : from Mesopotamia to Crete / edited by Walter E. Aufrecht, Neil A. Mirau & Steven W. Gauley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aufrecht, Walter Emanuel, 1942-

Gauley, Steven W.

Mirau, Neil A. (Neil Arnold), 1952-

Series:

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 244

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Ancient--Middle East--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Urbanization--Middle East--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Middle East--Antiquities--Congresses.

Middle East.

Bible. Old Testament--Antiquities.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The origin and growth of cities in antiquity. The origin and growth of cities forms one of the most important chapters in human history. In this volume, 17 researchers present archaeological, epigraphic and textual data on the rise of urbanism in the ancient Near Eastern world, Cyprus to Mesopotamia and from Crete to Egypt. Topics addressed include the influence of agriculture intensification, of trade, of craft specialization and of writing on the rise of cities. The roles of cultural elites, of ideologies and of relations between proximal urban centres are also examined.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Spatial Perspectives on Early Urban Development in Mesopotamia; Writing as a Factor in the Rise of Urbanism; Urbanisation et 'redistribution' de surplus agricoles en Mésopotamie septentrionale (3000-2500 av. J.-C.); Craft Specialization and the Rise of Secondary Urbanism: A View from the Southern Levant; The Agricultural Base of Urbanism in the Early Bronze II-III Levant; The Social Context of Early Iron Working in the Levant; Urbanization and Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages

Learning to Love the King: Urbanism and the State in Iron Age Moab; Urbanism at Tell el-'Umeiri during the Late Bronze IIB-Iron IA Transition; Tell Jawa: A Case Study of Ammonite Urbanism during Iron Age II; Archaeology, Urbanism, and the Rise of the Israelite State; The Urban Center of Jerusalem and the Development of the Literature of the Hebrew Bible; The Ancient Egyptian 'City': Figment or Reality?; Temple as the Center in Ancient Egyptian Urbanism; 'Metro' Nea Paphos: Suburban Sprawl in Southwestern Cyprus in the Hellenistic and Earlier Roman Periods

Palace-Centered Polities in Eastern Crete: Neopalatial Petras and its Neighbors; A View from the Outskirts: Realignments from Modern to Postmodern in the Archaeological Study of Urbanism; Index of Authors

Notes:

Papers from a conference at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in January 1996.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

9786611814045

9781281814043

1281814040

9780567269881

0567269884

OCLC:

287175929