LEADER 03640nam 2200505 450 001 9910780709303321 005 20230923095304.0 010 $a1-64602-204-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781646022045 035 $a(CKB)26872508500041 035 $a(OCoLC)1380734764 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_113296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30729047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30729047 035 $a(DE-B1597)651542 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781646022045 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926872508500041 100 $a20230923d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan /$fShlomit Bechar 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aUniversity Park, PA :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aHistory, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant Series 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tList of Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter 1. Introduction --$tChapter 2. The Transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age: Architectural Aspects at Hazor --$tChapter 3. The Middle Bronze Age-Late Bronze Age Transition in the Levant: Architectural Aspects --$tChapter 4. Pottery Assemblages from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages --$tChapter 5. Discussion and Conclusions --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aDo shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (seventeenth-fourteenth centuries BCE) in northern Canaan as a test case.Combining archaeological and historical analysis, Bechar identifies the most significant changes evident in architectural and ceramic remains from this period and then explores how and why contemporary political shifts may have influenced, or been influenced by, these developments. Bechar persuasively argues that the Egyptian conquest of the southern Levant--enabled by local economic decline following the expulsion of the Hyksos and the fall of northern Syrian cities--was the impetus for these changes in ceramics and architecture. Using a macro-typological approach to examine the ceramic assemblages, she also discusses the impact of the influx of Aegean imports, suggesting that while "attached specialists" were primarily responsible for ceramic production in the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age ceramics were increasingly made by "independent specialists," another important result of the new administrative system created following Thutmose III's campaign.An important contribution to our understanding of the transition between the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, this original and insightful book will appeal to specialists in the Bronze Age Levant, especially those interested in using ceramic assemblages to examine social and political change. 410 0$aHistory, archaeology, and culture of the Levant. 606 $aPottery, Ancient 607 $aPalestine$xHistory$yTo 70 A.D 615 0$aPottery, Ancient. 676 $a933.01 700 $aBechar$b Shlomit$f1982-$01583482 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780709303321 996 $aPolitical Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan$93866625 997 $aUNINA