Title Ancient western Asia beyond the paradigm of collapse and regeneration (1200-900 BCE) : proceedings of the NYU-PSL International Colloquium, Paris Institut national d'histoire de l'art, April 16-17, 2019 / edited by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Ilaria Calini, Robert Hawley, and Lorenzo d'Alfonso

Published New York : Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 623 pages ): illustrations (chiefly color), color maps Series ISAW monographs Summary "Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Together, these challenge the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, followed by the regeneration of political powers. Current research on newly discovered or reinterpreted textual and material evidence from Western Asia instead suggests that this transition was characterized by a diversity of local responses emerging from diverse environmental settings and culture complexes, as evident in the case studies collected here in history, archaeology, and art history. The editors avoid particularism by adopting a regional organization, with the aim of identifying and tracing similar processes and outcomes emerging locally across the three regions. Ultimately, this volume reimagines the Late Bronze-Iron Age transition as the emergence of a set of recursive processes and outcomes nested firmly in the local cultural interactions of western Asia before the beginning of the new, unifying era of Assyrian imperialism"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Bronze age -- Middle East -- Congresses Iron age -- Middle East -- Congresses Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East -- Congresses Middle East -- History -- To 622 -- Congresses Middle East -- Antiquities -- Congresses Form Electronic book Author Masetti-Rouault, Maria Grazia, editor Calini, Ilaria, 1984- editor. Hawley, Robert, editor D'Alfonso, Lorenzo, editor New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, sponsoring body. Institut national d'histoire de l'art (France), sponsoring body. ISBN 9781479834648 1479834645

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