Transitions during the Early Bronze Age in the Levant : methodological problems and interpretative perspectives / edited by Matthew J. Adams and Valentine Roux.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Matthew J. (Matthew Joel), editor.

Roux, Valentine, editor.

Series:

Ägypten und Altes Testament ; Bd. 109.

Ägypten und Altes Testament, 0720-9061 ; Band 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Middle East.

Bronze age.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Middle East.

Physical Description:

318 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Zaphon, 2022.

Summary:

The present volume brings together 14 papers. The objective of the workshop was to confront scholarly interpretations of the various transitional phases across the late 4th?3rd Millennium (Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I, EB I to EB II, and EB III to EB IV / Intermediate Bronze Age) in the southern Levant. The focus was on the nature of the cultural-period-defining traits and their value for distinguishing between changes related to endogenous or exogenous evolution, cultural or demic diffusion. These traits include material culture, architecture, mortuary practices as well as patterns of relationships between sites and subsistence strategies. ?0The traditional approach to structuring the past is based on a rigid chronological perception of time forced upon dynamic and fluidly transforming societies. The one-dimensional nature of the chronological approach results in periods of well-defined spatiotemporal cultural entities separated by ?transitional? periods. These defined cultural entities are often treated as static, though we know they were not, so that we may interpret cultural, historical, sociological, and political aspects of the society. Transition periods, however, are often treated as outliers interpreted against one or both of the periods that bracket them.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783963271588

3963271582

OCLC:

1331102104

Publisher Number:

9783963271588