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Record Nr.

UNINA9910853987903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-80327-649-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 pages)

Disciplina

939.402

Soggetti

Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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'.