Peripheral Concerns: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant

Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of onecoreregion of the ancient Near Eastern world — Egypt — on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era. The study utilizes a very broad scalemacroapproach to examine urban development using core-periphery théories, specifically in regard to southern Levantine-Egyptian interactions. While many studies examine urban develo...