04271nam 2200709Ia 450 991078255380332120231002173246.01-281-81404-097866118140450-567-26988-4(CKB)1000000000557176(EBL)435982(OCoLC)287175929(SSID)ssj0000344156(PQKBManifestationID)12070495(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344156(PQKBWorkID)10306827(PQKB)10826170(MiAaPQ)EBC435982(Au-PeEL)EBL435982(CaPaEBR)ebr10256270(CaONFJC)MIL181404(OCoLC)893333794(EXLCZ)99100000000055717619971017h19971997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUrbanism in antiquity from Mesopotamia to Crete /edited by Walter E. Aufrecht, Neil A. Mirau & Steven W. GauleySheffield, Eng. :Sheffield Academic Press,1997.©19971 online resource (291 pages) illustrations, mapsJournal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;244Papers from a conference at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in January 1996.0-567-41055-2 1-85075-666-X Includes bibliographies and index.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 Mésopotamie 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 AgesLearning to Love the King: Urbanism and the State in Iron Age Moab; Urbanism 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 PeriodsPalace-Centered Polities in Eastern Crete: Neopalatial Petras and its Neighbors; A View from the Outskirts: Realignments from Modern to Postmodern in the Archaeological Study of Urbanism; Index of AuthorsThe 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 Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament StudiesCities and towns, AncientMiddle EastCongressesExcavations (Archaeology)Middle EastCongressesUrbanizationMiddle EastCongressesMiddle EastAntiquitiesCongressesCities and towns, AncientExcavations (Archaeology)Urbanization307.76093Aufrecht Walter Emanuel1942-1462439Gauley Steven W1462440Mirau Neil A(Neil Arnold),1952-1462441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782553803321Urbanism in antiquity3671422UNINA