Tribes and Territories in Transition: The Central East Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages :...

Tribes and Territories in Transition: The Central East Jordan Valley in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages :...
ISBN-10
9042913851
ISBN-13
9789042913851
Category
Bronze age
Pages
354
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Peeters Publishers
Author
Eveline J. van der Steen

Description

This volume deals with the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the central East Jordan Valley, the period of the fall of the Egyptian New Kingdom, and of the birth of a new era, in which small kingdoms such as Ammon, Moab and Israel were born. A broad spectrum of sources is being reviewed: written evidence, excavations and surveys, and ethnographic sources from the 19th century and later. New archaeological evidence is being presented, including a report on the excavations of Tell el-Hammeh on the Zerqa. This evidence, written, material and ethnographical, is incorporated in a new model for the LB-IA transition in the region: a model that explains the events of this turbulent period as the precipitation of a tribal society, where the interactions of tribes and territories determined the political lay-out and shaped the kingdoms of the Iron Age.

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