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Fertile crossroads : elites and exchange in the Southern Levant's early Iron Age / Sarah Malena.
Penn Museum Library GN780.32.M4 M35 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malena, Sarah, author.
- Series:
- New directions in anthropological archaeology
- New directions in anthropological archaeology / series editor, Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron age--Middle East.
- Iron age.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Middle East.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Exchange--Middle East--History.
- Exchange.
- Middle East--Commerce--History.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages ; illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2025.
- Summary:
- "Fertile Crossroads examines how, despite the lack of large-scale institutional support throughout the ancient world, small-scale leaders persisted in long-distance interactions and established the foundations for Iron Age polities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Interactions with Philistines in 1 & 2 Samuel
- Solomon's interactions and economic policies
- The special case of Jerusalem
- A discussion
- Epigraphic evidence relating to exchange
- Non-local ceramics in the Iron I-IIA transition
- Synthesis and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Malena, Sarah. Fertile crossroads
- ISBN:
- 9781800504745
- 1800504748
- OCLC:
- 1427335200
- Publisher Number:
- 90102730498
- CIPO000106615
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