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Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan
2022
Overview
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.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781646022045, 1646022041, 9781646021932, 1646021932
