A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age
By (Author) Melissa Kennedy
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
1st December 2020
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Archaeology by period / region
939.43
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 15mm
400g
Description
The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land in between, positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical missing link in our understanding of the archaeology of this region in the early urban age.
A Land in Between documents the material culture and socio-political relationships of the Orontes Valley and its neighbours from the fourth through to the second millennium BCE. The authors demonstrate that the valley was an important conduit for the exchange of knowledge and goods that fuelled the first urban age in western Syria. This lays the foundation for a comparative perspective, providing a clearer understanding of key differences between the Orontes region and its neighbours, and insights into how patterns of material and political association changed over time.
Author Bio
Melissa Kennedy is a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia for the Project Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSAU).
