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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454350603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1997

ISBN

1-281-81404-0

9786611814045

0-567-26988-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

AufrechtWalter Emanuel <1942->

GauleySteven W

MirauNeil A <1952-> (Neil Arnold)

Disciplina

307.76093

Soggetti

Cities and towns, Ancient - Middle East

Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East

Urbanization - Middle East

Electronic books.

Middle East Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 MeĢsopotamie 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 MoabUrbanism 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 NeighborsA View from the Outskirts: Realignments from Modern to Postmodern in the Archaeological Study of Urbanism; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

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. The contributors to