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E-book Bridging the Gap : Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue

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The third volume of the proceedings of the conference ‘Broadening Horizons 6 — Bridging the Gap’ gathers the papers presented in two sessions: ‘Session 4 — Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction’ and ‘Session 6 — Landscape and Geography: Human Dynamics and Perceptions’. The contributions clearly represent the broad and very diverse geographic areas of the Near East, where despite the quite distinct landscapes the cultures seem to have been well-connected and to have widely interacted across this vast territory.The topic of Session 4, ‘Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction’, is clearly reflected in the papers dealing with interactions and connectivity patterns on different levels, for instance in long-distance relations. Two contributions present the contacts between the Arabian Peninsula on the one hand — specifically the Oman Peninsula — and the Indus Valley and the Persian Gulf on the other, respectively during the Iron Age (Fernández Rodríguez) and the Seleucid period (Pachón Barragán).Further contributions address the topic of the session on a regional level, in which the interacting of local communities in delimited regions is discussed by Luca Forni with Roberto Arciero as well as by Dan Socaciu. In Forni and Arciero’s paper the region of Murghab (Southern Turkmenistan) sets the stage for the analysis of the remarkable material culture of Togolok 1: they propose an interesting interpretation about the interaction of the semi-mobile communities of Togolok with the neighbouring sedentary communities, thus showing how neat boundaries between these societies were probably non-existent. Another case study on the regional level is offered by Socaciu’s investigation of the interaction in political entities such as kingdoms, empires, and states by observing the distribution of the rock-carved inscriptions in the Urartian territories. The study highlights one specific aspect of connectivity and interaction on a state-level and points out the value of detailed investigations of the two topics of Session 4.Besides landscapes and political systems, interaction and connectivity can also be traced in material culture, as Valentina Oselini shows in her contribution on 2nd millennium BC pottery in Mesopotamia. The author highlights the identification of two vast and very different pottery macro-regions, pinpointing distinctions between the Northern Mesopotamian ceramic tradition, characterised by an abundance of painted pottery, and the Southern Mesopotamian ceramic tradition, which is more complex and characterised by the presence of plain pottery. Nonetheless, points of contact can be detected, as the author shows in her paper.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

930.1 COP b

Penerbit

London : Archaeopress Publishing., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

230 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781803273419

Klasifikasi

930.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

Vol. 3

Subjek

Archaeology

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