Ancient West Asian Civilization

Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East

Akira Tsuneki, Shigeo Yamada, Ken-ichiro Hisada (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-9191-9 (ISBN)

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This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC.The editors specifically use the term "West Asia" since the "Middle East" is seen as an Eurocentric term. By using this term, the book hopes to mitigate potential bias (i.e. historical and Western) by using a pure geographical term. However, the "West Asia" region is identical to that of the narrower "Middle East," which encompasses modern Iran and Turkey from east to west and Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula from north to south.This volume assembles research from different disciplines, such as the natural sciences, archaeology and philology/linguistics, in order to tackle the question of which circumstances and processes these significant cultural phenomena occurred in West Asia. Scrutinizing subjects such as the relations between climate, geology and human activities, the origins of wheat cultivation and animal domestication, the development of metallurgy, the birth of urbanization and writing, ancient religious traditions, as well as the treatment of cultural heritage, the book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of West Asian Civilization that provided the common background to cultures in various areas of the globe, including Europe and Asia.These contributions will attempt to demonstrate a fresh vision which emphasizes the common cultural origin between Europe and West Asia, standing in opposition to the global antagonism symbolized by the theory of "Clash of Civilizations."

Introduction._ Part 1: Environment of the ancient West Asia._ Part 2: Great transformations in prehistory._ Part 3: Urbanization and the change of human societies._ Part 4: Importance of cultural heritage._ Synthesis: Ancient West Asian civilization as the foundation of all modern civilizations - some observations and future directions._ Concluding Remarks.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	69 Illustrations, color; 51 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 230 p. 120 illus., 69 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	archaeology • Civilization • Cuneiform studies • earth science • West Asia
ISBN-10	981-10-9191-9 / 9811091919
ISBN-13	978-981-10-9191-9 / 9789811091919
Zustand	Neuware