A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age

A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age
ISBN-10
1743327196
ISBN-13
9781743327197
Category
Social Science
Language
English
Published
2020-12-01
Publisher
Sydney University Press
Author
Melissa Kennedy

Description

The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land ‘in between’, positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical missing link in our understanding of the archaeology of this region in the early urban age. A Land in Between documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours during the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE. The authors demonstrate that the valley was a chief conduit for the exchange of knowledge and goods that fuelled the first urban age in western Syria. This lays the foundation for a comparative perspective, providing a clearer understanding of key differences between the Orontes region and its neighbours, and insights into how patterns of material and political association changed over time.

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