Far from the river: physical and metaphorical use of the territory and its water resources in Early and Middle Bronze Age Syria

Published in Origini n. XLII/2018. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations

Autore:

Davide Nadali, Frances Pinnock

Editore:

Gangemi Editore

Anno:

2019

ISBN:

9788849244144

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Adobe (The downloaded file has the .acsm extension and is converted into the purchased format upon installation on your eReader)

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Description

The development of the so-called secondary urban civilizations is related to the capacity/necessity to exploit ecosystems different from those created by the presence of large rivers. In north inner Syria the different ecosystems and the possibilities they offered were exploited in a most effective way, leading to the birth and development of complex urban systems, which flourished during the second half of the third and the first half of the second millennium BC. In this contribution, also the ideological and ritual relation with water is taken into account, a relation which was quite different from that of Southern Mesopotamia and was closely related with the presence of underground water.