Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE) (eBook)

Proceedings of the NYU-PSL International Colloquium, Paris Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, April 16-17, 2019

Ilaria Calini, Robert Hawley, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, Lorenzo d'Alfonso (Herausgeber)

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2024
898 Seiten
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-3463-1 (ISBN)

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New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late Bronze Age Eastern MediterraneanAncient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200 900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Together, these challenge the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, followed by the regeneration of political powers. Current research on newly discovered or reinterpreted textual and material evidence from Western Asia instead suggests that this transition was characterized by a diversity of local responses emerging from diverse environmental settings and culture complexes, as evident in the case studies collected here in history, archaeology, and art history. The editors avoid particularism by adopting a regional organization, with the aim of identifying and tracing similar processes and outcomes emerging locally across the three regions. Ultimately, this volume reimagines the Late Bronze Iron Age transition as the emergence of a set of recursive processes and outcomes nested firmly in the local cultural interactions of western Asia before the beginning of the new, unifying era of Assyrian imperialism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: ISAW Monographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: academic research • Agriculture • Anatolia • ancient Asia • ancient civilizations • Ancient Cultures • Ancient history • Ancient Mediterranean • archaeology • Art History • Asian History • Bronze Age • early agriculture • Eastern Mediterranean • Environmental Development • environmental impact on civilizations • euphrates • Fertile Crescent • Iron Age • Irrigation • Irrigation systems • Late Bronze Age • Levant • Mediterranean • Mediterranean history • Mediterranean Sea • Mesopotamia • Research • Research Collaboration • Sumer • Tigris • West Asia • World History
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-3463-7 / 1479834637
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-3463-1 / 9781479834631