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  • Chapter 3 - Urbanism and Its Demise in the Early Bronze II and III

  • Raphael Greenberg, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant
    Published online:
    21 October 2019
    Print publication:
    07 November 2019, pp 70-135

  • Summary

    In Early Bronze II some of the central traits of Near Eastern urbanism were adopted across the southern Levant, including aggregations in fortified centers, the adoption of corporate governance, the creation of standardized commodities and the concentration of staple goods. It is followed by a far less balanced system (EB III), characterized by massive fortification, the disappearance of villages, and the arrival of “Khirbet Kerak” migrants.

  • Chapter 3 - Urbanism and Its Demise in the Early Bronze II and III

  • Raphael Greenberg, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant
    Published online:
    21 October 2019
    Print publication:
    07 November 2019, pp 70-135

  • Summary

    In Early Bronze II some of the central traits of Near Eastern urbanism were adopted across the southern Levant, including aggregations in fortified centers, the adoption of corporate governance, the creation of standardized commodities and the concentration of staple goods. It is followed by a far less balanced system (EB III), characterized by massive fortification, the disappearance of villages, and the arrival of “Khirbet Kerak” migrants.

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant
  • From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE
  • Raphael Greenberg
  • Published online:
    21 October 2019
    Print publication:
    07 November 2019
  • 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.