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Euphrates River Valley Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC

By Edgar Peltenberg

Book information

Publisher
Council for British Research in the Levant
Year
2007
ISBN
1842172727, 9781842172728
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
20 MB (21474780 bytes)
Series
Levant Supplementary Volume
Pages
286\0
Time added
2017-03-12 10:43:41
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Description

Pre-state ceremonial monuments, rich mortuary arrangements, forts, walled settlements and temples: all these occur in a narrow stretch of the Euphrates River valley prior to the rise of Carchemish, one of the major capital cities of the Ancient Near East. This well-illustrated book examines recently discovered evidence from the hinterlands of archaeologically inaccessible Carchemish in its regional context. Amongst the 18 contributors Tony Wilkinson characterizes the neighbouring regions of Carchemish, Guy Bunnens elaborates on a site hierarchy within the valley and Gioacchino Falsone appraises unpublished records from excavations at Carchemish itself. These material culture studies are important for those interested in the emergence of complex societies that do not conform to the Mesopotamian paradigm.

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