The Archaeology Of The Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins To The Demise Of City-states, 3700-1000 Bce (cambridge World Archaeology)

The Levant -- modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine -- is one of the most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated survey offers a state-of- the-art description of the formative phase of Levantine societies, as they perfected the Mediterranean village economy and began to interact with neighboring civilizations in Egypt and Syria, on the way to establishing their first towns and city-state polities. Citing numerous finds and interpretive approaches, Greenberg offers a new narrative of social and cultural development, emulation, resistance and change, illustrating how Levantine communities translated broader movements of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Bronze Age -- the emergence of states, international trade, elite networks and imperial ambitions -- into a uniquely Levantine idiom. Raphael Greenberg is associate professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Specializing in the study of early urban formations, economies and institutions, he currently heads the Tel Bet Yerah excavations near the Sea of Galilee and is co-founder of Emek Shaveh -- a non-profit that monitors the political role of archaeology in Jerusalem and beyond" Greenberg 2019 cover Greenberg 2019_Bronze Age Levant_Cambridge 01.0_pp_i_ii_The_Archaeology_of_the_Bronze_Age_Levant 02.0_pp_iii_iv_Cambridge_World_Archaeology 03.0_pp_v_v_The_Archaeology_of_the_Bronze_Age_Levant 04.0_pp_vi_vi_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_vii_viii_Dedication 06.0_pp_ix_x_Contents 07.0_pp_xi_xvi_Illustrations 08.0_pp_xvii_xviii_Preface 09.0_pp_1_23_Introduction 10.0_pp_24_69_Villages_and_the_Growth_of_Social_Power_in_the_Early_Bronze_I 11.0_pp_70_135_Urbanism_and_Its_Demise_in_the_Early_Bronze_II_and_III 12.0_pp_136_179_The_Intermediate_Bronze_Age 13.0_pp_180_271_Villages_Manors_and_Integrated_City-States_of_the_Middle_Bronze_Age 14.0_pp_272_353_The_Late_Bronze_Age 15.0_pp_354_358_Conclusion 16.0_pp_359_408_Bibliography 17.0_pp_409_414_Index A richly documented and illustrated survey of the archaeology of a crucible of world culture, covering the earliest urban cultures and the emergence of states. This book is a key resource for students of the ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Mediterranean, and a valuable reference work for scholars in related disciplines.