The Oxford handbook of ancient Nubia /
The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated b...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks.
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| Summary: | The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by its role as neighbor, trade partner and enemy of ancient Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement, economy, political organization and religious ideologies were often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic and overwhelmingly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Middle East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, as well as of neighboring areas. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 1201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190496272 0190496274 |