Oystein S. LaBianca - Connectivity in Antiquity: Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process

Connectivity in Antiquity

Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology

Series Editor: Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego

Editorial Board:
Guillermo Algaze, University of California, San Diego
Paul S. Goldstein, University of California, San Diego
Joyce Marcus, University of Michigan

This series recognizes the fundamental role that anthropology now plays in archaeology and also integrates the strengths of various research paradigms that characterize archaeology on the world scene today. Some of these different approaches include 'New' or 'Processual' archaeology, 'Post-Processual', evolutionist, cognitive, symbolic, Marxist, and historical archaeologies. Anthropological archaeology accomplishes its goals by taking into account the cultural and, when possible, historical context of the material remains being studied. This involves the development of models concerning the formative role of cognition, symbolism, and ideology in human societies to explain the more material and economic dimensions of human culture that are the natural purview of archaeological data. It also involves an understanding of the cultural ecology of the societies being studied, and of the limitations and opportunities that the environment (both natural and cultural) imposes on the evolution or devolution of human societies. Based on the assumption that cultures never develop in isolation, anthropological archaeology takes a regional approach to tackling fundamental issues concerning past cultural evolution anywhere in the world.

Forthcoming titles in the series:

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult
The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel
Edited by: Thomas E. Levy

Hunter-Gatherers of the Southern California Coast
Edited by: Brian F. Byrd

Dawn of the Metal Age
Jonathan Golden

Israel's Ethnogenesis
Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance
Avraham Faust

New Approaches to Old Stones
Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts
Edited by: Yorke M. Rowan & Jennie Ebeling

Structured Worlds
The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action
Edited by: Aubrey Cannon

Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process

Edited by ystein S. LaBianca
and Sandra Arnold Scham

First published 2006 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen
Paperback edition published 2010

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ISBN 978 1 84553 947 4 (paperback)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Connectivity in antiquity: globalization as a long-term historical
process / edited by ystein Sakala LaBianca and Sandra Arnold Scham.
p. cm. -- (Approaches to anthropological archaeology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-904768-13-X
1. Civilization, Ancient. 2. Economic history--To 500. 3.
Commerce--History--To 500. 4. Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500. 5.
Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500. 6. Mediterranean
Region--Antiquities. 7. Middle East--Antiquities. I. LaBianca, ystein
Sakala. II. Scham, Sandra Arnold. III. Series.
CB311.C75 2004
382'.09'02--dc22

2004013027

Typeset by ISB Typesetting, Sheffield

Jenny Cashman is a research student at Lincoln College, Oxford.

Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

William Collins is Professor at California State University and Doctoral Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley.

Sheldon Lee Gosline is Associate Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Hieratic Font Project, History Department, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.

ystein S. LaBianca is Professor of Anthropology and Senior Director, International Development Program, at Andrews University, Michigan.

Thomas E. Levy is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Leif Manger is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.

Paul J. Ray, Jr. is the Director of Publications, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University.

Sandra Arnold Scham is Lecturer and Research Development Specialist, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland and Coordinator, Negev Bedouin Identity Project, Howard University.

William R. Thompson is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington and President-elect of the International Studies Association.

Bethany J. Walker is Assistant Professor of Middle East History at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.

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