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1 online resource (iv, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
1. Introduction / Susan Sherratt -- 2. Global development / Andrew Sherratt -- 3. Evolutions and temporal delimitations of Bronze Age world-systems in Western Asia and the Mediterranean / Philippe Beaujard -- 4. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Andrew Sherratt / Cyprian Broodbank -- 5. Ingestion and food technologies: maintaining differences over the long-term in West, South and East Asia / Dorian Q. Fuller and Michael Rowlands -- 6. Revolutionary secondary products: the development and significance of milking, animal-traction and wool-gathering in later prehistoric Europe and the Near East / Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou -- 7. World-systems and modelling macro-historical processes in later prehistory: an examination of old and a search for new perspectives / Philip L. Kohl -- 8. "From luxuries to anxieties": a liminal view of the late Bronze Age world-system / Christopher M. Monroe -- 9. Re-integrating "diffusion": the spread of innovations among the Neolithic and Bronze Age societies of Europe and the Near East / Lorenz Rahmstorf -- 10. What might the Bronze Age world-system look like? / David A. Warburton -- 11. "Archival" and "sacrificial" economies in Bronze Age Eurasia: an interactionist approach to the hoarding of metals / David Wengrow -- 12. The formation of economic systems and social institutions during the fifth and fourth millennia BC in the Southern Levant / Nils Anfinset -- 13. Negotiating metal and the metal form in the Royal Tombs of Alacahoyuk in North-Central Anatolia / Christoph Bachhuber -- 14. The Near East, Europe, and the "routes" of community in the early Bronze Age Black Sea / Alexander A. Bauer -- 15. Between Assyria and the Mediterranean world: the prosperity of Judah and Philistia in the seventh century BCE in context / Ehud Weiss -- 16. Northeast Africa and the Levant in connection: a world-systems perspective on interregional relationships in the early second millennium BC / Roxana Flammini -- 17. Strands of connectivity: assessing the evidence for long distance exchange of silk in later prehistoric Eurasia / Irene Good -- 18. Travelling in (world) time: transformation, commoditization, and the beginnings of urbanism in the Southern Levant / Raphael Greenberg -- 19. Bridging India and Scandinavia: institutional transmission and elite conquest during the Bronze Age / Kristian Kristiansen -- 20. New kid on the block: the nature of the first systemic contacts between Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean around 2000 BC / Borja Legarra Herrero -- 21. Lost in translation: the emergence of Mycenaean culture as a phenomenon of glocalization / Joseph Maran -- 22. Anticipating the Silk Road: some thoughts on the wool-murex connection in Tyre / Jane Schneider -- 23. Unbounded structures: cultural permeabilities and the calyx of change: Mesopotamia and its world / Norman Yoffee |
Summary |
How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from "world-systems" through "ritual economies" to "textile rivalries" and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.-- Provided by publisher |
Notes |
This book represents the proceedings of a conference organised by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sheffield on 1st-4th April 2008 in memory of Andrew Sherratt. The conference itself took place under the title "What Would a Bronze Age World System Look Like?" |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Subject |
Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006 -- Congresses
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SUBJECT |
Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006 fast |
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Prehistoric peoples -- Eurasia -- Congresses
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Commerce, Prehistoric -- Eurasia -- Congresses
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Economics, Prehistoric -- Eurasia -- Congresses
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Eurasia -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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HISTORY / Ancient / General
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Commerce, Prehistoric
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Economics, Prehistoric
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Prehistoric peoples
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Handel
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Bronzezeit
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Kulturkontakt
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Neolithikum
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Förhistoriska människan -- Eurasien.
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Handel -- historia -- Eurasien -- forntiden.
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Fornlämningar -- Eurasien -- forntiden.
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Bronsåldern -- Europa.
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Järnåldern -- Europa.
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Eurasia
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Eurasien
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Mittelmeerraum
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006, honouree.
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Wilkinson, Toby C., editor.
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Sherratt, Susan, editor.
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Bennet, John, 1957- editor.
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ISBN |
9781842176689 |
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1842176684 |
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