Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant A Marxist Perspective 1st Edition by Ianir Milevski ISBN 1138661104 978-1138661103

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ISBN 10: 1138661104
ISBN 13: 978-1138661103
Author: Ianir Milevski

The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the Bronze Age. ‘Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant’ provides an overview of the sources and distribution of commodities. The book presents a study of key production centres and the process of purchase and exchange. The book establishes a theoretical framework – based in political economy, ethnoarchaeology and economic anthropology – for understanding the exchange of commodities in a precapitalist society. ‘Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant’ is unique in presenting archaeological sources and prehistoric economics through modern, notably Marxist, theories of human development.

Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant A Marxist Perspective 1st Table of contents:

I Research Frameworks

1 Introduction

1 Description of the Subject and Research Objectives

A Early Bronze Age Economics

B Exchange in the Southern Levant

C Sources

D Chronological and Geographical Limits of this Study

E Terminology

F Aims

G Frameworks

H Steps of Research

I Sources Utilized

Previous Research

A Exchange in the Southern Levant

B Regional Studies, Trade and Urbanization

C Pottery Sources and Centers of Production

D Basalt, Flint and Other Materials

E Means of Transport and Routes

Notes

2 Theoretical Frameworks

1 General Approaches to Prehistoric Exchange

2 Marxism and Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology

A Marxism and Archaeology

B A Typology of Social Formations

C Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology and Gordon Childe

3 Political Economy and Marxist Perspectives on Exchange

A Theory of Value

Form 1

Form 2

Form 3

Form 4

B Theory of Value and Exchange Patterns

C Commodity Values in the Ancient Near East

4 Ethnoarchaeology, Historical Sources and Early Forms of Exchange

5 Spatial Archaeology and Exchange Models

A Networks

B Distribution Systems, Friction of Distance and the Costs of Exchange

6 Sociology of Art and Marxist Perspectives on Iconography

Notes

II Commodities

3 Pottery Vessels as Commodities

1 Pottery Production, Exchange and Ethnographic Examples

A Pottery Production and Resources

B Exchange of Pottery

2 Distribution of EB Ware Types

A Gray Burnished Ware

Definition

Sources

Distribution

Chronology

Summary and Discussion

B ‘Metallic’ Ware

Sources

Distribution

Chronology

Discussion

C Southern Vessels from Arad and the Negev

Definition and Sources

Arkose Group

Fossil Shells Group

Colcite Group

Fine Quartz Group

Chert group

Distribution

Chronology

Discussion

D Khirbet Kerak Ware

Definition

Sources

Distribution

Chronology

Summary and Discussion

E Other Ceramic Wares

Grain Wash

‘Crackled’ Ware

Splash and Drip Style Painting

‘Pre-Urban D’ or Tel Umm Hammad Ware

‘Tel Erani C’ Horizon Pottery

Dolomitic Wares

‘Tel Aphek Bowls’

Dead Sea Plain Tempers

3 Summary and Discussion on Pottery Distribution

Notes

4 Flint Objects

1 Raw Material and Production

2 Canaanean Blades

A Definition

B Distribution of Cores

C Distribution of Canaanean Blades and Discussion

3 Tabular Scrapers

A Definition

B Sources

C Distribution and Discussion

4 Summary and Conclusions

Notes

5 Groundstone Tools and Vessels

1 Technological and Ethnohistorical Introduction

2 Stone Tools and Materials

A Basalt

Provenance studies

Archaeological and Geological Samples

Results

Discussion

B Sandstone

Quarries, Settlements and Sandstone Objects

Discussion

C Beach-Rock and Kurkar

Raw material

Distribution

Discussion

3 General Discussion

Notes

6 Metallurgy and Metal Objects

1 Sources, Production and Exchange

A Ethnographic Background

B Archaeological Sources and Technology

Early Bronze I

Early Bronze II

Early Bronze III

2 Tools and Weapons

A Pins and Perforators

B Axes, Adzes and Chisels

C Daggers, Spearheads and Other Objects

3 Discussion

Notes

7 Botanical Commodities

1 Archaeobotany and Ethnohistoric Sources

2 Distribution of Species

A Cereals

B Olives and Grapes

Olives

Grapes

Trees Other than Olives

Pulses

3 Discussion

Notes

8 Faunal Commodities

1 Zoology and Archaeology

2 Species and Commodities

A Mollusca and Fish

Distribution

Discussion

B Hippopotami and Ivory Objects

Hippopotamus remains

Bull’s Heads from Ivory and other materials

Discussion

Notes

9 Minerals

1 Bitumen

A Materials and Sources

B Distribution and Discussion

2 Carnelian

A Definition

B Sources

C Distribution and Discussion

Notes

III Transportation, Merchants and Networks

10 Transportation and the Cult of Exchange

1 Donkeys as Means of Transportation

A Zooarchaeological Data

B Donkey Figurines and Other Representations

C Containers and their Relationship to Donkeys

D Pots as Containers

Baskets

2 Discussion: The Cult of Donkeys and Exchange

A The Domestication and Utilization of the Donkey

B Iconography

C Ritual Practices

Notes

11 Exchange Networks

1 Northern Regions

A Upper Galilee

B Huleh Valley

C Golan Heights

D Western Galilee

E Lower Galilee

F Jezreel Valley

2 Central Regions

A Jordan Valley

B Central Hill Country and Shephelah

C Central Coastal Plain

D Southern Coastal Plain

3 Southern Regions

A Northern Negev

B Central and Southern Negev

C Eastern Dead Sea Plain and Aravah

4 Local Riverine and Coastal Maritime Traffic?

Notes

IV Conclusions

12 Conclusions and Perspectives

1 Aspects of the Exchange Networks: Centralization, Directionality and Symmetry

2 Variations in Patterns of Exchange over Time

3 Specialized Commodities

4 Local Exchange and Merchants

5 Local Exchange and the Economics of the EB Age

6 Perspectives of Local Exchange in the Southern Levant

7 Perspectives of Early Bronze Age Economics and Exchange Worldwide

Notes

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