Metal, nomads and culture contact : the Middle East and North Africa
| 1. Verfasser: |
Anfinset, Nils
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; : Oakville, CT :.
Equinox Pub.,
2008.
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| Ausgabe: | 1rst publ. |
| Umfang/Format: |
X, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Approaches to anthropological archaeology
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| ISBN: | 9781845532536 |
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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.
