Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes A Comparative Study of Empires in Ancient Near East Mediterranean

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

About the author

Bleda S. Düring is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology of Universiteit Leiden. He directed an ERC Starting Grant Research project (2012-2016) on the archaeology of the early Assyrian Empire. He is the author of The Prehistory of Asia Minor (Cambridge, 2010).Tesse D. Stek is Associate Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology and Head of the World Archaeology Department of the Faculty of Archaeology of Universiteit Leiden. He coordinates the NWO funded research project Landscapes of Early Roman colonization and is the author of Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy and co-editor of Roman Republican Colonization (2014) and The Impact of Rome on Cult Places and Religious Practices in Ancient Italy (2015).

Summary

The studies in this volume focus on how rural economies and seemingly peripheral communities were often profoundly transformed by empires. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it outlines patterns in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world.

Product details

• Authors: Bleda S. (Universiteit Leiden) Stek During, EDITED BY BLEDA S. D
• Assisted by: Bleda S. (Universiteit Leiden) During (Editor), Tesse D. (Universiteit Leiden) Stek (Editor), Tesse D. Stek (Editor), Bleda S. Düring (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.05.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781316639245
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63924-5
• Pages: 386
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology; Archaeology; Ancient World; Archaeology by period / region; Environmental archaeology