ASOR Conference Boston 2017 - ICAANE Conference Munich 2018 – Collected Papers
Herausgeber: | Bietak, Manfred / Prell, Silvia |
Reihe: |
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Bandnummer: | 9 |
Umfang/Format: | 418 pages, 192 ill., 30 tables, 23 diagrams, 26 maps, 3 plates |
Sprache: | English |
Ausstattung: | Book (Hardback) |
Abmessungen: | 21.00 × 29.70 cm |
Gewicht: | 1968g |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 17.12.2019 |
Preise: | 128,00 Eur[D] / 131,60 Eur[A] |
ISBN: | 978-3-447-11332-8 |
DOI: | 10.13173/9783447113328 |
At
the end of the Early Bronze Age, people were clearly on the move,
settlements were abandoned and the reasons for this phenomenon, either
political, economic, ecological or social in nature, are partly still
mysterious. Although differentiated regional clusters are in many cases
still not easy to pinpoint, it becomes clear that the ‘Greater Levantine
Area’, was, despite all differences, embedded into networks of
interregional connectivity most likely sustained by trade relations. At
Tell el-Dab’a/Avaris, a major harbour town and trade centre in the
Middle Bronze Age, it is not astonishing that diverse foreign contacts
to different regions throughout the Levant can be established in the
material culture. Concerning the origin of the inhabitants of Avaris,
the current research seems to point to a provenance, at least of the
elite, the ‘decision makers’, to northernmost Syria and northern
Mesopotamia as shown by comparable religious and funerary concepts.
This
volume comprises the collected papers of two workshops organised by the
ERC Advanced Grant “The Enigma of the Hyksos” under the direction of
Manfred Bietak during the ASOR Conference held in Boston in November
2017 and the ICAANE Conference held in Munich in April 2018. They
specifically aimed to gain a better understanding of the Western Asiatic
populations settling in the eastern Delta of Egypt from the late Middle
Kingdom to the early New Kingdom. Of particular interest are their
exact origins and ways of migration that can be explored by means of
different comparative cultural studies as well as bio-archaeological
approaches.
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