Bronze Age Rural Ecology and Village Life at Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841717999)

Tell el-Hayyat, the focus of this volume, is situated in the Jordan Rift Valley approximately two kilometres east of the Jordan River on the first terrace above the present floodplain. This work details the authors' investigations of agrarian economy andecology as they illuminate the roles of rural communities in the larger context of the first urbanized civilizations. The study explores the ways in which small farming villages like Tell el-Hayyat contributed and responded to the rise and fall of Bronze Age town life in the southern Levant. A rural perspective is particularly appropriate for this region amid its long legacy of sedentary agriculture, dynamic urban-rural relations, and their ecological consequences.

Author: Steven E. Falconer, Patricia L. Fall
ISBN-10: 1841717991
ISBN-13: 9781841717999
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2006
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.82d