Urbanism in antiquity : from Mesopotamia to Crete /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aufrecht, Walter Emanuel, 1942-, Mirau, Neil A. (Neil Arnold), 1952-, Gauley, Steven W.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Language Notes:In English; one contribution in French.
Published: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [1997]
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 244.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia / E.B. Banning
  • Writing as a factor in the rise of urbanism / Ronald F.G. Sweet
  • Urbanisation et 'redistribution' de surplus agricoles en Mésopotamie septentrionale (3000-2500 av. J.-C.) / Michel Fortin
  • Craft specialization and the rise of secondary urbanism : a view from the Southern Levant / Steven A. Rosen
  • The agricultural base of urbanism in the Early Bronze II-III Levant / Arlene Miller Rosen
  • The social context of early iron working in the Levant / Neil A. Mirau
  • Urbanization and Northwest Semitic inscriptions of the late Bronze and Iron Ages / Walter E. Aufrecht
  • Learning to love the king : urbanism and the state in Iron Age Moab / Bruce Routledge
  • Urbanism at Tell el-ʻUmeiri during the late Bronze IIB-Iron IA transition / Larry G. Herr
  • Tell Jawa : a case study of Ammonite urbanism during Iron Age II / P.M. Michèle Daviau
  • Archaeology, urbanism, and the rise of the Israelite state / William G. Dever
  • The urban center of Jerusalem and the development of the literature of the Hebrew Bible / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • The ancient Egyptian 'city' : figment or reality? / Donald B. Redford
  • Temple as the center in ancient Egyptian urbanism / Carolyn Routledge
  • 'Metro' Nea Paphos : suburban sprawl in southwestern Cyprus in the Hellenistic and earlier Roman periods / David W. Rupp
  • Palace-centered polities in eastern Crete : neopalatial Petras and its neighbors / Metaxia Tsipopoulou
  • A view from the outskirts : realignments from modern to postmodern in the archaeological study of urbanism / D. Bruce MacKay.