Angela
Elite member
- Messages
- 21,823
- Reaction score
- 12,329
- Points
- 113
- Ethnic group
- Italian
This summary of the "life" of this ancient city reads like a primer for a huge chunk of history, from the mesolithic hunter gatherers, through the beginnings of agriculture, the pre-pottery neolithic, the pottery neolithic, the Chalcolithic, the Early and Late Bronze Age, and then the destruction by nomadic herders from the periphery.
The topics touched upon include insights into the choice of sites for habitation, the response to natural disasters common to the area (earthquakes and climate change)and threats from other humans, the adoption of technology in pottery and later in metals, the role of wealth and both its benefits and the dangers it brings in terms of the stresses caused by class stratification and its attraction for groups on the periphery, and changes in defense in response to aggression.
It's all pretty general, given that it's a summary, but I found it interesting, both because Jericho has always fascinated me, and because we are awaiting papers soon to be published on the steppe peoples and their role in European history.
https://www.academia.edu/8688397/Th...ell_es-Sultan_ancient_Jericho_as_a_Case_Study
There are some very nice photos of the site as well.
The topics touched upon include insights into the choice of sites for habitation, the response to natural disasters common to the area (earthquakes and climate change)and threats from other humans, the adoption of technology in pottery and later in metals, the role of wealth and both its benefits and the dangers it brings in terms of the stresses caused by class stratification and its attraction for groups on the periphery, and changes in defense in response to aggression.
It's all pretty general, given that it's a summary, but I found it interesting, both because Jericho has always fascinated me, and because we are awaiting papers soon to be published on the steppe peoples and their role in European history.
https://www.academia.edu/8688397/Th...ell_es-Sultan_ancient_Jericho_as_a_Case_Study
There are some very nice photos of the site as well.