Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Susan Cohen

Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Susan Cohen

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Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Susan Cohen

Susan Cohen [+-]
Montana State University
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Susan L. Cohen received her Ph.D. in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology and Hebrew Bible from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2000. Her research focuses on the archaeology, history, and international interconnections of the Bronze Age in the southern Levant, with emphasis on rural settlement and subsistence, rural-urban relations, and synchronisms and interactions with ancient Egypt. She was Director of the excavations at the Middle Bronze Age mortuary site of Gesher, and the small rural multi-period site of Tel Zahara, both in the Jordan Valley, and is Co-Director of the Tell Abu Shusha excavations beginning in summer 2019. She is currently Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University, and Chair of the Fellowships Committee of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

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Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of one “core” region of the ancient Near Eastern world—Egypt—on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era. The study utilizes a very broad scale “macro” approach to examine urban development using core-periphery theories, specifically in regard to southern Levantine-Egyptian interactions. While many studies examine urban development in both the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age, few compare this phenomenon in the two periods. Likewise, there are few studies of urban development in the southern Levant that compare contemporary Egyptian policies in that region to those in Nubia, despite the fact that Egyptian activities linked the eastern Mediterranean, the Nile Valley, and Nubia into one interactive system. The broad chronological and geographic framework utilized in this study therefore allows for a new approach to urban development in the southern Levant.

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Cohen, Susan. Index. Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 165-173 Apr 2016. ISBN 9781781791776. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=31468. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.31468. Apr 2016

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