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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969745903321

Autore

Greenberg Raphael

Titolo

Early urbanizations in the Levant : a regional narrative / / Raphael Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Leicester University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-283-19262-4

9786613192622

0-567-11600-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

New approaches to anthropological archaeology

Disciplina

307.76/0933

Soggetti

Urbanization - Israel - Hula Valley

Cities and towns, Ancient - Israel - Hula Valley

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Israel - Hula Valley

Hula Valley (Israel) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Hula Valley Environment; 3 The Stratigraphic-Chronological Framework: Sites and Material Culture of the Hula Valley, EB 1-MB I; 4 Hula Valley Settlement Patterns: A Chronological Survey; 5 Patterns and Settlement and Social Change in the Hula Valley, EB I - MB I, and Their Implications for the Study of Early Urban Cultures in the Southern Levant; 6 Conclusion: The Ebb and Flow of Early Urbanism in the Levant; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Early Urbanizations in the Levant examines the first cycle of urbanization, collapse and reurbanization in the 4th-2nd millennium BCE Levant. The core of the study is a detailed analysis of settlement fluctuations and material culture development in the Hula Valley, at the crossroads between modern Israel, Syria and Lebanon. Focusing on field data and a close reading of the material text, the book emphasizes the variety exhibited in patterns of cultural and social change when small, densely settled regions are carefully scrutinized. Using the concepts of time-space edges and shifting loci of p