Connectivity in antiquity
Subtitle: globalization as a long-term historical process
By: edited by Øystein Sakala LaBianca and Sandra Arnold Scham.
Contributors: LaBianca, Øystein Sakala.; Scham, Sandra Arnold.
Series: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; Oakville, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient.; Economic history -- To 500.; Commerce -- History -- To 500.; Economic history -- Medieval, 500-1500.; Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.; Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities.; Middle East -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Connectivity in antiquity-globalization as a long-term historical process; title: Introduction: ancient network societies?; title: The "space of flows" in antiquity; title: Grand narratives, technological revolutions and the past : deep-time studies of metallurgy and social evolution in the Eastern Mediterranean / T. E. Levy; title: Emerging state connectivity : dynamic urban and economic growth in third millennium BCE West Syrian societies / William Collins; title: Trade pulsations, collapse, and reorientation in the ancient world / William R. Thompson; title: The globalizing effects of hajj in the medieval and modern eras / Bethany J. Walker; title: Connectivity : TransJordan during the Persian period / Paul J. Ray, Jr; title: The organic globalization and socialization of civilization / Sheldon Lee Gosline; title: Connectivity in the Longue Duree : hadramis from South Yemen in an Indian Ocean world / Leif Manger; title: Perceptions of antiquity and the formation of modern resistance identities; title: Sandra Arnold Scham; title: Foreign self and familiar other : the impact of "global" connectivity on New Kingdom and Ramesside Egypt / Jenny Cashman.