Metal, nomads and culture contact : the Middle East and North Africa

1. Verfasser: Anfinset, Nils.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; : Oakville, CT :. Equinox Pub., 2008.
Ausgabe: 1rst publ.
Umfang/Format: X, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Perspectives and approaches
  • Secondary products and nomads
  • The 5th and 4th millennia BC of the Southern Levant
  • The present and past environment
  • The late neolithic
  • The chalcolithic period
  • The early bronze age
  • Chronology and terminology
  • The last centuries of the 4th millennium in the Southern Levant
  • Concluding remarks
  • The 5th and 4th millennia BC of North-East Africa
  • Present and past environment
  • The late neolithic in Egypt and Nubia
  • The 5th millennium
  • Pastoralism and food production of the western desert of Egypt
  • The predynastic periods of Egypt : Naqada and Maadi
  • The 4th millennium
  • Lower Nubia in the 4th millennium
  • The Nubian a-group
  • The timing of the Nubian a-group
  • Concluding remarks
  • The role of nomadic pastoralists
  • Present nomads in North East Africa and the Southern Levant
  • Archaeology and nomadic pastoralists
  • Pastoral nomadism in Northeast Africa and the Southern Levant during the 5th and 4th millennia BC
  • Concluding remarks
  • The role of copper in the late 5th and 4th millennia BC
  • Metallurgy, mining, smelting and casting copper artefacts and contexts
  • Metallurgical aspects of copper
  • Copper beyond Egypt and Africa
  • Concluding remarks
  • Contact, specialisation and value
  • Contact and exchange in the 5th and 4th millennia
  • Growing focus on specialisation and ritualisation
  • The social value of early copper
  • Concluding remarks
  • Conclusion.

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