Massa, M;
Palmisano, A;
(2018)
Change and continuity in the long-distance exchange networks between western/central Anatolia, northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia, c.3200–1600 BCE.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
, 49
pp. 65-87.
10.1016/j.jaa.2017.12.003.
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Abstract
This paper investigates and offers explanations for the distribution of specific products (ivory and lapis lazuli artefacts, “Syrian” bottles) and technologies (metrology) that have often been invoked as tracers of long-distance trade contacts and/or political units in Anatolia, northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages. Unlike former studies investigating third and second millennia exchange networks as separate entities, we examine comparatively and systematically a large corpus of published archaeological data by adopting a quantitative and spatial approach. Through this analysis, we propose that a significant degree of similarity in the shape, infrastructure and motivations behind the development and maintenance of these long-distance exchanges existed between the third and early second millennia BC.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Change and continuity in the long-distance exchange networks between western/central Anatolia, northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia, c.3200–1600 BCE |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jaa.2017.12.003 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2017.12.003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Near East, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Levant, Material culture, Long-distance trade, Exchange networks, Spatial approaches |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042877 |
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