Title Political change and material culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan / Shlomit Bechar

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (278 p.) Series History, archaeology, and culture of the Levant ; 11 History, archaeology, and culture of the Levant ; 11. Contents Introduction -- The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age : architectural aspects at Hazor -- The Middle Bronze Age-Late Bronze Age transition in the Levant : architectural aspects -- Pottery assemblages from the Middle to Late Bronze Ages -- Discussion and conclusions Summary Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (seventeenth-fourteenth centuries BCE) in northern Canaan as a test case.Combining archaeological and historical analysis, Bechar identifies the most significant changes evident in architectural and ceramic remains from this period and then explores how and why contemporary political shifts may have influenced, or been influenced by, these developments. Bechar persuasively argues that the Egyptian conquest of the southern Levant--enabled by local economic decline following the expulsion of the Hyksos and the fall of northern Syrian cities--was the impetus for these changes in ceramics and architecture. Using a macro-typological approach to examine the ceramic assemblages, she also discusses the impact of the influx of Aegean imports, suggesting that while "attached specialists" were primarily responsible for ceramic production in the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age ceramics were increasingly made by "independent specialists," another important result of the new administrative system created following Thutmose III's campaign.An important contribution to our understanding of the transition between the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, this original and insightful book will appeal to specialists in the Bronze Age Levant, especially those interested in using ceramic assemblages to examine social and political change Analysis Egypt Late Bronze Age Levant Material Culture Middle Bronze Age Political changes Pottery analysis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Subject Canaanites -- Material culture Canaanites -- Politics and government Architecture, Ancient -- Palestine Pottery, Ancient -- Palestine. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. Antiquities Architecture, Ancient Pottery, Ancient SUBJECT Palestine -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097164 Palestine -- History -- To 70 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097167 Subject Middle East -- Palestine Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781646022045 1646022041 9781646022038 1646022033

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