Metal, nomads and culture contact
Subtitle: the Middle East and North Africa
By: Nils Anfinset.
Series: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845532536
Subjects: Metal-work, Prehistoric -- Egypt; Metal-work, Prehistoric -- Nubia; Commerce, Prehistoric -- Egypt; Commerce, Prehistoric -- Nubia; Nomads -- Egypt; Nomads -- Nubia; Pastoral systems -- Egypt; Pastoral systems -- Nubia; Egypt -- Antiquities; Nubia -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Perspectives and approaches; title: Secondary products and nomads; title: The 5th and 4th millennia BC of the Southern Levant; title: The present and past environment; title: The late neolithic; title: The chalcolithic period; title: The early bronze age; title: Chronology and terminology; title: The last centuries of the 4th millennium in the Southern Levant; title: Concluding remarks; title: The 5th and 4th millennia BC of North-East Africa; title: Present and past environment; title: The late neolithic in Egypt and Nubia; title: The 5th millennium; title: Pastoralism and food production of the western desert of Egypt; title: The predynastic periods of Egypt : Naqada and Maadi; title: The 4th millennium; title: Lower Nubia in the 4th millennium; title: The Nubian a-group; title: The timing of the Nubian a-group; title: Concluding remarks; title: The role of nomadic pastoralists; title: Present nomads in North East Africa and the Southern Levant; title: Archaeology and nomadic pastoralists; title: Pastoral nomadism in Northeast Africa and the Southern Levant during the 5th and 4th millennia BC; title: Concluding remarks; title: The role of copper in the late 5th and 4th millennia BC; title: Metallurgy, mining, smelting and casting copper artefacts and contexts; title: Metallurgical aspects of copper; title: Copper beyond Egypt and Africa; title: Concluding remarks; title: Contact, specialisation and value; title: Contact and exchange in the 5th and 4th millennia; title: Growing focus on specialisation and ritualisation; title: The social value of early copper; title: Concluding remarks; title: Conclusion.