Interweaving worlds : systemic interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st millennia BC / editors, Toby C. Wilkinson, Susan Sherratt and John Bennet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilkinson, Toby C.

Sherratt, Susan.

Bennet, John, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Eurasia.

Prehistoric peoples.

Commerce, Prehistoric--Eurasia.

Commerce, Prehistoric.

Economics, Prehistoric--Eurasia.

Economics, Prehistoric.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Eurasia.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006.

Sherratt, Andrew.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from ""world

Contents:

Cover; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Global Development; 3. Evolutions and Temporal Delimitations of Bronze Age World-Systems in WesternAsia and the Mediterranean; 4. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Andrew Sherratt; 5. Ingestion and Food Technologies: Maintaining Differences over the Long-term inWest, South and East Asia; 6. Revolutionary Secondary Products: the Development and Signifi cance of Milking,Animal-Traction and Wool-Gathering in Later Prehistoric Europe and the Near East

7. World-Systems and Modelling Macro-Historical Processes in Later Prehistory:an Examination of Old and a Search for New Perspectives8. 'From Luxuries to Anxieties': a Liminal View of the Late Bronze Age World-System; 9. Re-integrating 'Diffusion': the Spread of Innovations among the Neolithic and BronzeAge Societies of Europe and the Near East; 10. What might the Bronze Age World-System Look Like?; 11. 'Archival' and 'Sacrifi cial' Economies in Bronze Age Eurasia: an Interactionist Approach to the Hoarding of Metals

12. The Formation of Economic Systems and Social Institutions during the Fifth and FourthMillennia BC in the Southern Levant13. Negotiating Metal and the Metal Form in the Royal Tombs of Alacahöyük inNorth-Central Anatolia; 14. The Near East, Europe, and the 'Routes' of Community in the Early Bronze AgeBlack Sea; 15. Between Assyria and the Mediterranean World: the Prosperity of Judah and Philistiain the Seventh Century BCE in Context; 16. Northeast Africa and the Levant in Connection: a World-Systems Perspective onInterregional Relationships in the Early Second Millennium BC

17. Strands of Connectivity: Assessing the Evidence for Long Distance Exchange of Silk inLater Prehistoric Eurasia18. Travelling in (World) Time: Transformation, Commoditization, and the Beginnings ofUrbanism in the Southern Levant; 19. Bridging India and Scandinavia: Institutional Transmission and Elite Conquest duringthe Bronze Age; 20 New Kid on the Block: the Nature of the First Systemic Contacts between Crete and theEastern Mediterranean around 2000 BC; 21. Lost in Translation: the Emergence of Mycenaean Culture as a Phenomenon ofGlocalization

22. Anticipating the Silk Road: Some Thoughts on the Wool-Murex Connection in Tyre23. Unbounded Structures, Cultural Permeabilities and the Calyx of Change: Mesopotamiaand its World

Notes:

"Papers from a conference in Sheffied in 2008 in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt."

This book represents the proceedings of a conference organised by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sheffield on 1st-4th April 2008 in memory of Andrew Sherratt. The conference itself took place under the title "What Would a Bronze Age World System Look Like?"

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-84217-668-4

OCLC:

831118149