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Title Interweaving worlds : systemic interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st millennia BC : Papers from a conference in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt, What Would a Bronze Age World System Look Like? World systems approaches to Europe and western Asia 4th to 1st millenia BC / editors, Toby C. Wilkinson, Susan Sherratt and John Bennet
Published Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2011]
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Description 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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Subject Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006 -- Congresses
SUBJECT Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006 fast
Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Eurasia -- Congresses
Commerce, Prehistoric -- Eurasia -- Congresses
Economics, Prehistoric -- Eurasia -- Congresses
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Eurasia -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Commerce, Prehistoric
Economics, Prehistoric
Prehistoric peoples
Handel
Bronzezeit
Kulturkontakt
Neolithikum
Förhistoriska människan -- Eurasien.
Handel -- historia -- Eurasien -- forntiden.
Fornlämningar -- Eurasien -- forntiden.
Bronsåldern -- Europa.
Järnåldern -- Europa.
Eurasia
Eurasien
Mittelmeerraum
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Sherratt, Andrew, 1946-2006, honouree.
Wilkinson, Toby C., editor.
Sherratt, Susan, editor.
Bennet, John, 1957- editor.
ISBN 9781842176689
1842176684
Other Titles What would a Bronze Age world system look like?