ISBN:
9781845533786
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (302 p)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Greenberg, Raphael Ianir MILEVSKI, Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant: A Marxist Perspective. Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology. London and Oakville: Equinox Publishing, 2011. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84553-378-6 (hbk.). £75.00 / 115.00 2011
Parallel Title:
Print version Milevski, Ianir Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant : A Marxist Perspective
DDC:
306.4/6095694
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Research Frameworks -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Description of the Subject and Research Objectives -- 2 Previous Research -- 2 Theoretical Frameworks -- 1 General Approaches to Prehistoric Exchange -- 2 Marxism and Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology -- 3 Political Economy and Marxist Perspectives of Exchange -- 4 Ethnoarchaeology, Historical Sources and Early Forms of Exchange -- 5 Spatial Archaeology and Exchange Models
Abstract:
6 Sociology of Art and Marxist Perspectives of Iconography -- Part II Commodities -- 3 Pottery Vessels as Commodities -- 1. Pottery Production, Exchange and Ethnographic Examples -- 2. Distribution of EB Ware Types -- 3. Summary and Discussion of Pottery Distribution -- 4 Flints Objects -- 1 Raw Material and Production -- 2 Canaanean Blades -- 3 Tabular Scrapers -- 4 Summary and Conclusions -- 5 Groundstone Tools and Vessels -- 1 Technological and Ethnohistorical Introduction -- 2 Stone Tools and Materials -- 3 General Discussion -- 6 Metallurgy and Metals Objects
Abstract:
1 Sources, Production, and Exchange -- 2 Tools and Weapons -- 3 Discussion -- 7 Botanical Commodities -- 1 Archaeobotany and Ethnohistoric Sources -- 2 Distribution of Species -- 3 Discussion -- 8 Faunal Commodities -- 1 Zoology and Archaeology -- 2 Distribution of Species -- 9 Minerals -- 1 Bitumen -- 2 Carnelian -- Part III Transportation, Merchants and Networks -- 10 Transportation and the Cult of Exchange -- 1 Donkeys as Means of Transportation -- 2 Discussion: The Cult of Donkeys and Exchange -- 11 Exchange Networks -- 1 Northern Regions -- 2 Central Regions -- 3 Southern Regions
Abstract:
4 Local Riverine and Coastal Maritime Traffic? -- Part IV Conclusions -- 12 Conclusions and Perspectives -- 1 Aspects of the Exchange Networks: Centralization, Directionality and Symmetry -- 2 Variation in Patterns of Exchange over Time -- 3 Specialized Commodities -- 4 Local Exchange and Merchants -- 5 Local Exchange and the Economics of the EB Age -- 6 Perspectives of Local Exchange in the Southern Levant -- 7 Perspectives of Early Bronze Age Economics and Exchange Worldwide -- Bibliography -- Index
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Description based upon print version of record
