Dynamics of production in the Ancient Near East : 1300-500 BC /

The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through?entrepreneurs?, the development of new trade circuits and an...

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Corporate Author: European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on "Dynamics of production and economic interaction in the Near East in the first half of the 1st millennium BCE" Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III
Other Authors: Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Economies in transition : trade, money, labour and nomads at the turn of the 1st millennium BC / Juan Carlos Moreno García
  • Oil and wine for silver? The economic agency of the Egyptian peasant communities in the Great Oasis during the Persian Period / Damien Agut-Labordère
  • Urban craftsmen and other specialists, their land holdings, and the Neo-Assyrian state / Heather D. Baker
  • Beyond capitalism : conceptualising ancient trade through friction, world historical context and bazaars / Peter Fibiger Bang
  • Phoenician trade : the first 300 years / Carol Bell
  • The contribution of pottery production in reconstructing aspects of local rural economy at the northern frontier of the Neo-Assyrian Empire / Anacleto D'Agostino
  • Silver circulation and the development of the private economy in the Assyrian Empire (9th-7th centuries BCE) : considerations on private investments, prices and prosperity levels of the imperial élite / Salvatore Gaspa
  • Long-distance trade in Neo-Babylonian Mesopotamia : the effects of institutional changes / Laetitia Graslin-Thomé
  • The empire of trade and the empires of force : Tyre in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods / Caroline Van der Brugge & Kristin Kleber
  • Temples and agricultural labour in Egypt, from the late New Kingdom to the Saite Period* / Juan Carlos Moreno García
  • North-east Africa and trade at the crossroads of the Nile Valley, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea / Robert G. Morkot
  • Temples, trade and money in Egypt in the 1st millennium BC / Renate Müller-Wollermann
  • From "institutional" to "private" : traders, routes and commerce from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age1 / Susan Sherratt
  • Intercultural contacts between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula at the turn of the 2nd to the 1st millennium BCE / Gunnar Sperveslage
  • Interactions between temple, king and local elites : the han-û land schemes in Babylonia (8th-6th centuries BC) / John P. Nielsen and Caroline Waerzeggers
  • Organisation and financing of trade and caravans in the Near East / Jean-Baptiste Yon
  • Aegean economies from Bronze Age to Iron Age : some lines of development, 13th-7th centuries BC / Julien Zurbach.