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
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505 0 |a 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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