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Chapter 5 - Villages, Manors and Integrated City-States of the Middle Bronze Age
Raphael Greenberg, Tel-Aviv University
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The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

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21 October 2019

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07 November 2019, pp 180-271
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The movement of people and ideas from north to south and the renewal of trade with Egypt instigated a revival of settlement in the Levant, first along the coast and valleys, then in the highlands. Fortified ritual centers become foci of integrated polities with flourishing crafts, marking the high-water mark of second millennium Canaanite culture.

Chapter 5 - Villages, Manors and Integrated City-States of the Middle Bronze Age
Raphael Greenberg, Tel-Aviv University
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The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

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The movement of people and ideas from north to south and the renewal of trade with Egypt instigated a revival of settlement in the Levant, first along the coast and valleys, then in the highlands. Fortified ritual centers become foci of integrated polities with flourishing crafts, marking the high-water mark of second millennium Canaanite culture.

From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE
Raphael Greenberg
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21 October 2019

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The Levant - modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine - is one of the most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated survey offers a state-of-the-art description of the formative phase of Levantine societies, as they perfected the Mediterranean village economy and began to interact with neighboring civilizations in Egypt and Syria, on the way to establishing their first towns and city-state polities. Citing numerous finds and interpretive approaches, Greenberg offers a new narrative of social and cultural development, emulation, resistance and change, illustrating how Levantine communities translated broader movements of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Bronze Age - the emergence of states, international trade, elite networks and imperial ambitions - into a uniquely Levantine idiom.