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Chronological Conundrums
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 13 assembles papers given at the "The Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Levant Revisited: Chronology and Connections" session of the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in San Antonio, Texas, in November 2016. The goal of the session was to stimulate a renewed discussion on Middle Bronze Age chronology for the southern Levant and its connections with Egypt, as a number of recent radiocarbon sequences from several sites challenge current chronological assessments and, thus, correlations with the historical chronology of Egypt. Changing the chronology of the Middle Bronze Age would have significant impact on current views on history and development of Near Eastern societies during the first half of the second millennium BCE. The articles assembled here give a first impression of this debate about historical trajectories, absolute chronology, and how discussion might develop in the future.
Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age
Im Zusammenhang mit einem DAI-Projekt zur rein naturwissenschaftlichen Synchronisation der relativchronologischen Systeme des Vorderen Orients fand vom 14.-16.09.2011 in Berlin ein internationales Symposium statt, dessen Akten in diesem Band vorgelegt werden. Das Buch enthält ein Vorwort, 14 Aufsätze, Autorenliste und Zusammenfassung. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit Neufunden aus Pella, Jordanien, FBZ Kontexten aus Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordanien, Kontakten zwischen Ägypten und der Levante im 3. Jt., Ausgrabungen in Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Libanon, Tel Bet Yerah, Israel, und der Synchronisation ägyptisch-südkaukasischer Verbindungen, Kontakten zwischen Niltal und südlicher Levante im 4. Jt. und der späten FBZ, Befunden aus dem Jordantal zur levantinisch-ägyptischen Handelsstraße, sozio-ökonomischen Beziehungen Ägyptens zur Südlevante im 4. Jt. aus jordanischer Sicht, der Synchronisation frühägyptischer Chronologien mit der Nordlevante, einer C14-basierten Chronologie Zyperns von der Kupferzeit bis zur MBZ, dem Königsgrab von Den at Umm el-Qaab, Ägypten, Befunden von Khirbet al-Batrawy, Jordanien, sowie Problemen der Synchronisation im 3. Jt.
Understanding Collapse
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa
Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. The book delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect. Beyond the broad historic analysis, the chapters derive conclusions for today’s debate on whether climate change leads to more social conflict and violence. Introducing a theoretical framework focused on adaptive cycling, this book probes and refines the role of climate in ancient and modern political-economic systems in the MENA region. It also underscores just how bad the 21st-century envi...
Time's Up! Dating the Minoan Eruption of Santorini
Papers by natural scientists, archaeologists, egyptologists and classicists discussing the newest evidence of the Santorini eruption. The papers fall into two sections. I: Evidence, geology, archaeology & chronology; II: Debate: typology, chronology, methodology. Contributors include: Walter L. Friedrich & Jan Heinemeier, Philip P. Betancourt, Max Bichler, Thomas M. Brogan, Peter M. Fischer, Karen Polinger Foster, Hermann Hunger, Felix Hoflmayer,Rolf Krauss, Bernd Kromer, Alexander R. McBirney, Floyd W. McCoy, J. Alexander MacGillivray, Sturt W. Manning, Robert Merrillees, Raimund Muscheler, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nikolaos Sigalas, Chrysa Sofianou, Jeffrey S. Soles, Georg Steinhauser, Johannes H. Sterba, Annette Hen Sensen,Peter Warren, Malcolm H. Wiener.
Time's Up!
Papers by natural scientists, archaeologists, egyptologists and classicists discussing the newest evidence of the Santorini eruption. The papers fall into two sections. I: Evidence, geology, archaeology & chronology; II: Debate: typology, chronology, methodology. Contributors include: Walter L. Friedrich & Jan Heinemeier, Philip P. Betancourt, Max Bichler, Thomas M. Brogan, Peter M. Fischer, Karen Polinger Foster, Hermann Hunger, Felix Hoflmayer, Rolf Krauss, Bernd Kromer, Alexander R. McBirney, Floyd W. McCoy, J. Alexander MacGillivray, Sturt W. Manning, Robert Merrillees, Raimund Muscheler, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nikolaos Sigalas, Chrysa Sofianou, Jeffrey S. Soles, Georg Steinhauser, Johannes H. Sterba, Annette Hen Sensen, Peter Warren, Malcolm H. Wiener.
The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.
M. Wiener's key-lecture entitled "Times change: The current state of the Debate in Old World Chronology" provides the volume's introduction, followed by the section "Science and Chronology", which includes, among others, several controversial studies on the results of carbon-14 dating. An important point for the ongoing discussion on Aegean chronology is made by Pearce et al., who demonstrate that certain traces in Greenland ice-core layers, previously taken to be stemming from the Minoan eruption of Thera, in fact originate from eruptions of the Aniakchak volcano in Alaska. The volume next includes articles that deal with historical chronology and archaeological evidence, arranged in the sections "Egypt", "The Levant and Syria" and "The Aegean, Cyprus and adjacent regions". In addition to reports and analyses dealing with many aspects of the chronology and archaeology of these regions, this part also contains M. Bietak's study on all wall-paintings from Egypt, Israel, Syria and the Levant considered to be Minoan.
Incontri e mobilità nel Mediterraneo preistorico
Il libro tratta lo studio critico di un complesso di materiali largamente inedito, databile tra la Media Età del Bronzo ed il periodo Greco Arcaico, provenienti dagli scavi di Paolo Orsi nelle necropoli siracusane di Cozzo del Pantano e Matrensa nel 1893 e 1898, e delle pratiche funerarie associate.
Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant
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.
