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Today's politicians argue that the more 'connected' societies are
the less danger they pose to global stability. But is this a 'new'
idea or one as old as history itself? Trade routes as far back as
prehistory were responsible for the exchange of ideas as well as
goods, leading to the rapid expansion of states and empires.
'Connectivity in Antiquity' brings together a team of influential
scholars to examine the process of globalization in antiquity. The
essays examine metallurgy, social evolution, economic growth and
the impact of religious pilgrimage, and range across the eastern
Mediterranean, Syria, the Transjordan, south Yemen, and Egypt.
'Connectivity in Antiquity' will be of value to all those
interested in the relationship between antiquity and modern
globalisation.
Today's political minds assure us that the more 'connected'
societies are, the less danger they pose to global stablity--but is
this a 'new' idea or one that is as old as history itself? Trade
networks that began as far back as human prehistory were
responsible for exchanges of ideas as well as goods and the 'ripple
effects' of these networks were the expansionist compulsions of
hstorical states and empires. These papers tell us that the
civillizations of the ancient past may have had more in common with
modern global enterprises than was ever before imagined. Two
concepts that have great mmediacy and have now become the current
watchwords for the media as well as for academia, globalization and
long-term historical processes, are brought together in this
interdisciplinary volume of papers based upon Manuel Castells'
massive work "The Network Society.
The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Mabada Plains Project
archaeological research in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The
Madaba Plains Project is one of the longest-lived, continuously
running archaeological excavation projects in the Middle East.
Spanning four decades, the project, with its beginnings at Tall
Hisban in the late sixties, has engaged 1,500 participants,
produced scores of publications and spawned a dozen other projects.
Its legacy includes being one of the first major Near Eastern
archaeology projects to adopt a multi-millennial, regional
approach; to incorporate ethnoarchaeology and environmental
studies; to construct data around a food-systems' approach; and to
computerize procedures for archaeological data acquisition and
analysis, thus helping advance both the theoretical underpinnings
and the field methods of archaeology in the southern Levant and
beyond. Madaba Plains Project directors, wishing to celebrate this
major scientific and historical milestone, have produced this
anniversary volume which: highlights the value of ongoing
collaborative research across the region of central Jordan,
attempting to explain life and survival from the Bronze ages
through the Islamic and early modern periods and features the
latest results from ongoing research; enlivens the discussion by
hearing from major scholars in the field who, in the process of
assessing the contributions of the project to the archaeology of
the southern Levant, broaden the discussion in the context of
ancient Near Eastern archaeological research; and, expands the
horizons of the project's research by presenting the ever enlarging
number and extent of projects conducted by dig directors once on
staff with the Madaba Plains Project, thereby taking readers all
over Jordan and beyond.
This volume represents the final output of a long-standing
collaboration by an international and cross-disciplinary team
sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy
of Science and Letters. It aims to tell the history of human
cultural production in the Eastern Mediterranean rather than the
history of specific states or religions. Simultaneously, the volume
argues that the agency of local communities is a key to understand
the history of long-term change and cultural production in the
Levant. It narrates the story of the crystallization of a type of
sub-imperial power, illustrated by the canonical discourses
associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
"The MPP has left a huge footprint on the archaeology of Jordan and
the Middle East in general. Without it, we would all be working in
a different way and with a poorer set of theoretical models. This
book justly celebrates those achievements and explains how they
came about." - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental
Research The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Madaba Plains
Project archaeological research in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The Madaba Plains Project is one of the longest-lived, continuously
running archaeological excavation projects in the Middle East.
Spanning four decades, the project, with its beginnings at Tall
Hisban in the late sixties, has engaged 1,500 participants,
produced scores of publications and spawned a dozen other projects.
Its legacy includes being one of the first major Near Eastern
archaeology projects to adopt a multi-millennial, regional
approach; to incorporate ethnoarchaeology and environmental
studies; to construct data around a food-systems approach; and to
computerize procedures for archaeological data acquisition and
analysis, thus helping advance both the theoretical underpinnings
and the field methods of archaeology in the southern Levant and
beyond. Madaba Plains Project directors, wishing to celebrate this
major scientific and historical milestone, have produced this
anniversary volume which: - highlights the value of ongoing
collaborative research across the region of central Jordan,
attempting to explain life and survival from the Bronze ages
through the Islamic and early modern periods and features the
latest results from ongoing research - enlivens the discussion by
hearing from major scholars in the field who, in the process of
assessing the contributions of the project to the archaeology of
the southern Levant, broaden the discussion in the context of
ancient Near Eastern archaeological research - expands the horizons
of the project's research by presenting the ever enlarging number
and extent of projects conducted by dig directors once on staff
with the Madaba Plains Project, thereby taking readers all over
Jordan and beyond.
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