Fertile Crossroads

Elites and Exchange in the Southern Levant's Early Iron Age

Sarah Malena (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2024
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80050-474-5 (ISBN)

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The southern Levant linked the major powers of the ancient Near East. More often than not, peoples of this land were politically and economically dominated by greater kingdoms and empires. During the transition between the Iron I and II Ages (late eleventh to early ninth centuries BCE) however, imperial occupation and active colonization diminished, and local leadership emerged. Fertile Crossroads examines how, despite the lack of large-scale institutional support throughout the ancient world, small-scale leaders persisted in long-distance interactions and established the foundations for Iron Age polities. Malena critically examines the most direct evidence of these developments with the aid of historical and anthropological approaches regarding intercultural interaction and social change. Despite challenging disparity among historical, literary, and archaeological sources, Fertile Crossroads demonstrates that interactions (including diplomacy, commerce, competitive emulation, and aggression) were taking place within the southern Levant and with more distant neighbors, such as Egypt, Arabia, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and even the Aegean. In this new application of interaction models and synthesis of evidence, Malena shows how small scale exchange had a significant impact on socio-political changes in the region, especially involving shifts in elite networks, territories, group identities, and political power.

Sarah Malena is Associate Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She specializes in the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean world, with a special focus on intercultural exchange.

Chapter
One: Introduction

Chapter
Two: Interactions with Philistines in 1 & 2 Samuel

Chapter
Three: Solomon’s Interactions and Economic Policies

Chapter
Four: The Special Case of Jerusalem—A Discussion

Chapter
Five: Epigraphic Evidence Relating to Exchange

Chapter
Six: Non-local Ceramics in the Iron I-IIA Transition

Chapter
Seven: Synthesis and Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white and colour figures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	263 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80050-474-8 / 1800504748
ISBN-13	978-1-80050-474-5 / 9781800504745
Zustand	Neuware