Material Worlds : Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University 7th March 2016.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hausleiter, Arnulf, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--Congresses.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2023.

Summary:

The eleven contributions in this book address the history of contacts and exchanges in the Bronze and Iron Ages within West Asia, extending far beyond the boundaries of the previously defined contact zone of the 'Ancient Near East'.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Content

Acknowledgements

Material Worlds Program

Introductory Remarks

Arnulf Hausleiter

I. Old Assyrian Trade

Introduction to the Old Assyrian Trade Session

Nancy A. Highcock

States, Markets and Overland Trade in the Early And Middle Bronze Age

Gojko Barjamovic

Dynamism and Scale in Western Asian Bronze Age Trade Networks

Lorenzo D’Alfonso and Nancy A. Highcock

II. Cuneiform Knowledge Productionin Contact ZonesII. Cuneiform Knowledge Productionin Contact Zones

Reflections on the Dynamics of Cuneiform Knowledge Production in the Ancient Near East

Jonathan Valk

Production of Knowledge in Contact Zones: Mari and Tigunānum in the Old Babylonian Period

Beate Pongratz-Leisten

III. Transitions and Transformations in the Levant and Northern Arabia

The Middle to Late Bronze Age Transition at Tell el-ʿAjjul in the light of exchanges between Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean

Celia J. Bergoffen

Transitions in Material Culture of the 2nd Millennium BCE: The Middle Bronze to Late Bronze Age Shift Seen from Northwest Arabia

Marta Luciani

Connections and Transformations in the Southern Levant during the 2nd Millennium with a View from Megiddo

Robert Homsher

IV. Egyptian Red Sea Trade

Power and Prestige: Egyptian Red Sea Trade during the Old and Middle Kingdoms and its Place within the Royal Redistributive Network

Lisa Saladino Haney Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-80327-649-5

OCLC:

1475018951