Author : Ianir Milevski
Release : 2016-09-17
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant by : Ianir Milevski
Download or read book Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant written by Ianir Milevski. This book was released on 2016-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the Bronze Age. 'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant' provides an overview of the sources and distribution of commodities. The book presents a study of key production centres and the process of purchase and exchange. The book establishes a theoretical framework - based in political economy, ethnoarchaeology and economic anthropology - for understanding the exchange of commodities in a precapitalist society. 'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant' is unique in presenting archaeological sources and prehistoric economics through modern, notably Marxist, theories of human development.