Centro y periferia en el mundo antiguo
el Negev y sus interacciones con Egipto, Asiria, y el Levante en la Edad del Hierro (1200-586 a.C.)
Description:... This
book investigates the socioeconomic structure of the Negev, the arid
periphery located in the south of the modern state of Israel, in the
Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (ca. 1300–586 B.C.) During the first
millennium B.C. the Negev passed through a series of socio-political andeconomic fluctuations inextricably related to changes occurring in the
Iron Age world-system. A world-system perspective demonstrates that the
local, essentially tribal society, evolved through a series of phases ofchiefdom-formation and posterior dissolution. Interrelated political
events and economic factors that had long-lasting impact on the
autochthonous tribal groups need to be seen under the light of these
systemic interactions. The main cause that triggered the local chain of
events were the unequal exchange relations between the contemporaneous
states—particularly pharaonic Egypt and Assyria, but also tiny Levantinestates such as Judah—and the Negev tribal organizations.
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