Neither early Bronze Age Cities nor States in the south of the Levant: another perspective

  • Kafafi Z
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Abstract

Contrairement aux cultures urbaines et civilisations complexes à écriture de l'Égypte et de la Mésopotamie dans la seconde moitié du IV e millénaire, il faut attendre près de mille ans pour voir se developper l'écriture en Jordanie. Par ailleurs, alors que l'on avait jusque-là identifié le système d'organisation politique comme celui de la Cité-État, certains chercheurs ont proposé récemment que le Levant Sud du III e millénaire n'ait connu ni État ni ville. Nous suggérons ici une autre interprétation de ces questions, fondée sur le travail de terrain réalisé en Jordanie. Abstract-Unlike the complex urban cultures and civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, where writing developed during the second half of the 4 th millennium BC, Jordan did not use writing until over a thousand years later. In addition, it has been proposed that the south Levantine Early Bronze Age polities, which have been identified as city-states, were neither cities nor states. This study aims at presenting another perspective of this problem based on archaeological fieldworks conducted in the north of Jordan.

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Kafafi, Z. A. (2011). Neither early Bronze Age Cities nor States in the south of the Levant: another perspective. Syria, (88), 47–57. https://doi.org/10.4000/syria.894

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