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Author : Norman Yoffee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Assyria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012287103
Author : Jane R. McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576079089
This work is a revealing study of the enigmatic Indus civilization and how a rich repertoire of archaeological tools is being used to probe its puzzles. The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives takes readers back to a civilization as complex as its contemporaries in Mesopotamia and Egypt, one that covered a far larger region, yet lasted a much briefer time (less than a millennium) and left few visible traces. Researchers have tentatively reconstructed a model of Indus life based on limited material remains and despite its virtually indecipherable written record. This volume describes what is known about the roots of Indus civilization in farming culture, as well as its far-flung trading network, sophisticated crafts and architecture, and surprisingly war-free way of life. Readers will get a glimpse of both a remarkable piece of the past and the extraordinary methods that have brought it back to life.
Author : Charles Keith Maisels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134863280
The Emergence of Civilisation is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near Eastern region. Charles Maisels argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth century speculations, are wrong. His investigation illuminates the changes in scale, complexity and hierarchy which accompany the development of civilisation. The book draws conclusions about the dynamics of social change and the processes of social evolution in general, applying those concepts to the rise of Greece and Rome, and to the collapse of the classical Mediterranean world.
Author : Gil Stein
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816520097
"In this new study, Stein proposes two complementary theoretical frameworks for the study of interregional interaction: a "distance-parity" model, which views world-systems as simply one factor in a broader range of intersocietal relations, and a "trade-diaspora" model, which explains variation in exchange systems from the perspective of participant groups. He tests his models against the archaeological record of Mesopotamian expansion into the Anatolian highlands during the fourth millennium B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Daniel C. Snell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405137393
A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians Places particular emphasis on social and cultural history Covers the legacy of the Ancient Near East in the medieval and modern worlds Provides a useful bibliographical guide to this field of study
Author : Jane R. McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576079669
The first general introduction to Mesopotamia that covers all four of the area's major ancient civilizations—Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia. Ancient Mesopotamia: New Perspectives ranges from the region's cultural beginnings to its Persian "liberation," from simple farmers to mighty kings, from the marshy Gulf shores and Arabian desert sands to the foothills of the Taurus and Zagros mountains. It is the first volume to capture the entire sweep of Mesopotamia's four major ancient cultures (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian) in one concise and captivating volume. Ancient Mesopotamia reveals how archaeologists, geologists, geographers, and other scientists have pieced together an understanding of some of the most complex and accomplished civilizations in history: their economies, social orders, political systems, religions, intellectual accomplishments, and material culture. It offers a wealth of information and insights into the glorious past of a land in turmoil today.
Author : Walter Emanuel Aufrecht,Neil Arnold Mirau,Steven W. Gauley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850756668
Papers from a conference held at Lethbridge, Canada, in 1996. Contents include: Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia ( E. B. Banning ); The agricultural base of urbanism in hte early Bronze II-III Levant ( Arlene Miller Rosen ); Urbanization and northwest Semitic inscriptions of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages ( Walter E. Aufrecht ); Tell Jawa: a case study of Ammonite urbanism during Iron Age II ( P. M. Michele Daviau ); Archaeology, urbanism and the rise of the Israelite state ( William G. Dever ); The ancient Egyptian city': figment or reality? ( Donald B. Redford ); Palace-centered polities in eastern Crete ( Metaxia Tsipopoulou ).
Author : Refael (Rafi) Benvenisti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783111065533
The book is a study of the emergence of market economy with modern economic institutions in the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt from the third and early second millennium B.C.E. The study covers the Sumerian, Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian periods. The economic analysis is based on Institutional Economics theory, and the data on the Old Assyrian period is based on the work of many scholars that transliterated, translated and studied many of the 23,000 documents of the Old Assyrian traders found in old Kanesh in Central Turkey. The book includes chapters on the institutions of: property rights; the markets and means of exchange; the organization and finance of trade; and enforcement institutions from the judicial, social and political systems. In addition, it gives a detailed analysis of: the early means of exchange (money) like the use of volume measure of barely and weight measure of copper and silver in Sumer; various instruments establishing property rights such as Kuduru border stones, seals and inserted cones in walls; detailed analysis of the communication system and its components; and the description of the modern financial instruments used to include, for example, limited partnerships.
Author : William W Hallo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004668850
Modern western culture owes much to ancient Near Eastern precedent. Origins documents that debt in specific terms, covering a variety of topics from the alphabet and its order to the system of dating by eras, and including many of the institutions most essential to contemporary life -- and most often taken for granted.
Author : Gwendolyn Leick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810863248
The Greek name Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers.' The Romans used this term for an area that they controlled only briefly (between 115 and 117 A.D.): the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, from the south Anatolian mountains ranges to the Persian Gulf. It comprises the civilizations of Sumer and Akkad (third millennium B.C.) as well as the later Babylonian and Assyrian empires of the second and first millennium. Although the 'history' of Mesopotamia in the strict sense of the term only begins with the inscriptions of Sumerian rulers around the 27th century B.C., the foundations for Mesopotamian civilization, especially the beginnings of irrigation and the emergence of large permanent settlements, were laid much earlier, in the fifth and fourth millennium. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia defines concepts, customs, and notions peculiar to the civilization of ancient Mesopotamia, from adult adoption to ziggurats. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-reference dictionary entries on religion, economy, society, geography, and important kings and rulers.
Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191588457
Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia. In this volume Marc Van De Mieroop examines the evolution of the very earliest cities which, for millennia, inspired the rest of the ancient world. The city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization, and the political and social structure, economy, literature, and arts of Mesopotamian culture cannot be understood without acknowledging their urban background. - ;Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as the result of long indigenous processes, and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the historical period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, their political and social structures, economy, literature, and the arts. He draws on material from the entirety of Mesopotamian history, from c. 3000 to 300 BC, and from both Babylonia and Assyria, arguing that the Mesopotamian city can be regarded as a prototype that inspired the rest of the ancient world and shared characteristics with the European cities of antiquity. -
Author : Kristian Kristiansen,Michael Rowlands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134916962
Social Transformations in Archaeology explores the relevance of archaeology to the study of long-term change and to the understanding of our contemporary world. The articles are divided into: * broader theoretical issues * post-colonial issues in a wide range of contexts * archaeological examination of colonialism with case studies from the Mediterranean in the first millenium BC and historical Africa.
Author : Roger S. Nam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004224162
With the growing proliferation of literature concerning the social world of the Hebrew Bible, scholars continue to face the challenge of a proper understanding of ancient Israel’s economies. Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings is the first monographic study to use an anthropological approach to examine the nature of the economic life behind the biblical text. Through Karl Polanyi’s paradigm of exchange as a methodological control, this book synthesizes Semitic philology with related fields of Levantine archaeology and modern ethnography. With this interdisciplinary frame, Nam articulates a social analysis of economic exchange, and stimulates new understandings of the biblical world.
Author : Maria Eugenia Aubet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521514170
"In this analysis, the roots of the Phoenician colonial system are traced and the metropolis of Tyre is established as the final link in a chain of experiences in the ancient Near East"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Gregory Chirichigno
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850753599
This original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25. It begins with the social background to debt slavery and the socioeconomic factors encouraging the rise of debt slavery in Mesopotamia. After a comparative analysis of the Mesopotamian and biblical material Chirichigno examines the social background to debt slavery in Israel, the various slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.