The Connected Iron Age

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Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE

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The Connected Iron Age: Interregional networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900–600 BCE by Jonathan M. Hall and James F. Osborne explores the intricate web of trade, cultural exchange, and political dynamics that characterized the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age. The authors analyse how different societies were interlinked through commerce and communication, revealing the complexity of interactions that shaped the development of the region. This work offers insight into the ancient world's connectivity and its impact on historical trajectories.
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You might enjoy this exploration of ancient societies if you are fascinated by the complex networks and interactions that defined the Iron Age. This book may appeal to those interested in uncovering the ways in which trade, culture, and innovations connected distant communities and shaped historical developments in Europe.

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An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected.

The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians, and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia.

The Connected Iron Age adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.

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The Connected Iron Age is praised for highlighting the complexity of cultural exchanges in the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean, focusing on often-overlooked regions such as Egypt, the Black Sea, and Phrygia. Reviewers appreciate its engaging discussions on connectivity modes, well-supported by illustrative materials. The book is lauded as essential reading for those studying ancient Mediterranean societies, offering innovative approaches to understanding cross-cultural connections and interregional networks during the early first millennium BCE.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226819044

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 40 halftones

Contributors:

Edited by Jonathan M. Hall
Edited by James F. Osborne

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Jonathan M. Hall is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and professor in the Departments of History and Classics and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity; Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, which was awarded the Gordon J. Laing Award; A History of the Archaic Greek World; Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian; and Reclaiming the Past: Argos and its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era. James F. Osborne is associate professor of Anatolian archaeology at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He is the author of The Syro-Anatolian City-States: An Iron Age Culture, editor of Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology, and coeditor of Territoriality in Archaeology.