Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt - the Crossroads IV

Jana Mynářováis professor of history and cultures of Asia and Africa and director of the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague specialising in Assyriology and Egyptology. Ludovica Bertolini is assistant professor in the the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Federico Zangani is a Renfrew Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, specialising in Egyptology.

Preface              


About the Contributors


Abbreviations  


Part 1. Politics


Aaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean


Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents Abroad


Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria              


Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant         


Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of Ur


Jacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age Alalakh


Ellen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World  


Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age Levant


Seth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCE


Part 2. Ideas, Concepts, and Languages


Ludovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through Life


Paul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna        


Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti?


Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder              


Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge          


Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age            


Part 3. Materiality and Administration


Jacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant        


Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA)              


Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma       


Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis             


Index of Names