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Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact

The Middle East and North Africa
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Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact explores significant cultural transformations in the southern Levant and Northeast Africa during the fifth and fourth millennia BCE. It examines the spread of agriculture, advances in animal husbandry, increased intercultural exchanges, and the emergence of bronze metallurgy. The book integrates archaeological findings from the Chalcolithic period to contextualise these developments, focusing on metal introduction and the role of pastoral nomadism in cultural interaction.
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Ideal for scholars and students of archaeology and anthropology interested in early metal use, nomadic cultures, and ancient intercultural contacts in Northeast Africa and the Levant.

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The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased contact between cultures; and the use of alloy bronze

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The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased contact between cultures; and the use of alloy bronze.

Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact integrates archaeological data from across the Chalcolithic period to contextualise these changes. The book examines the introduction of metal to the southern Levant, Egypt, and Lower Nubia, and the role of pastoral nomadism in cultural interaction and exchange.

Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact will be valuable to scholars of archaeology and anthropology.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781845532536

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 254

About the Author

Nils Anfinset is currently Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, connected to the research project "Global Moments in the Levant". Has been teaching at University of Bergen, University of Oslo and Birzeit University. He has research interests in a number of fields such as political archaeology, culture heritage, late Neolithic and Bronze Age and has been working in Norway, Nepal, Tanzania and the Middle East (Syria and West Bank).

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