Del 11 - History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant

Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvShlomit Bechar

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Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (seventeenth–fourteenth centuries BCE) in northern Canaan as a test case.Combining archaeological and historical analysis, Bechar identifies the most significant changes evident in architectural and ceramic remains from this period and then explores how and why contemporary political shifts may have influenced, or been influenced by, these developments. Bechar persuasively argues that the Egyptian conquest of the southern Levant—enabled by local economic decline following the expulsion of the Hyksos and the fall of northern Syrian cities—was the impetus for these changes in ceramics and architecture. Using a macro-typological approach to examine the ceramic assemblages, she also discusses the impact of the influx of Aegean imports, suggesting that while “attached specialists” were primarily responsible for ceramic production in the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age ceramics were increasingly made by “independent specialists,” another important result of the new administrative system created following Thutmose III’s campaign.An important contribution to our understanding of the transition between the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, this original and insightful book will appeal to specialists in the Bronze Age Levant, especially those interested in using ceramic assemblages to examine social and political change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-08
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant
Antal sidor278
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9781646022984

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List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction1.1 General Introduction1.2 Research Questions and Aims of Study1.3 Geographical Framework1.4 Chronological Framework1.5 Historical Background: The Sixteenth-Fourteenth Centuries BCE in the Ancient Near East1.6 State of Research1.7 Economic Models and Pottery Production: Theoretical Framework1.8 Economic Model for the Southern Levant1.9 Methodology1.10 Research OutlineChapter 2. The Transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age: Architectural Aspects at Hazor2.1 Background2.2 The Architectural Evidence2.3 The Built Environment of the Lower City2.4 Crisis Architecture2.5 Historical Implications2.6 ConclusionsChapter 3. The Middle Bronze Age-Late Bronze Age Transition in the Levant: Architectural Aspects3.1 Introduction3.2 The Southern Levant3.3 Northern Levant: Lebanon3.4 Northern Levant: Syria3.5 Summary and ConclusionsChapter 4. Pottery Assemblages from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages4.1 Methodology4.2 Typological Scheme4.3 Discussion by Site4.4 Discussion and SummaryChapter 5. Discussion and Conclusions5.1 Introduction and Summary of Previous Chapters5.2 Historical Implications5.3 Changes in Ceramic Traditions and Consumption5.4 Final Conclusions—From a Superpower in the MBA to a Great Vassal in the LBABibliographyIndex

“Bechar has undertaken an in-depth study of the ceramics at Hazor and put its assemblage in dialogue with those of surrounding settlements, which will be extremely useful for archaeologists working in the region. This study allows her to make important conclusions—such as the fact that pottery shapes at Tel Arqa in the LB II become less similar to those in the Southern Levant and more similar to those of the Northern Levant. In border zones where allegiances fluctuate, this kind of ceramic shift may represent one of the few available ways to understand political shifts at the time.”—Ellen Morris, author of Ancient Egyptian Imperialism