Searching for Ancient Samʾal: New Excavations at Zincirli in Turkey

[...] it is the northernmost extension of the 6,000-kilometerlong Syro -African Rift that skirts the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and includes the Orontes River Valley in Syria, the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, the Sea of Galilee, Jordan River, and Dead Sea, and extends all the way to Mozambique i...

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Published inNear Eastern archaeology Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 203 - 219
Main Authors Schloen, J. David, Fink, Amir S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago American Schools of Oriental Research 01.12.2009
University of Chicago Press
Subjects
Archaeological excavation
Architecture
Bronze age
Cities
Excavations
Forts
Inscriptions
Iron age
Stelae
Studies
Towns
Trenches
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Summary:[...] it is the northernmost extension of the 6,000-kilometerlong Syro -African Rift that skirts the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and includes the Orontes River Valley in Syria, the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, the Sea of Galilee, Jordan River, and Dead Sea, and extends all the way to Mozambique in East Africa. In other words, were there "urban clans" or patron-client household groupings governed by politically powerful patriarchs, forming economically autonomous and mainly agrarian subcommunities within the larger city, on the model of traditional Islamic cities or medieval Mediterranean cities in Italy and elsewhere.7 This model of urban farming clans assumes that intermarrying groups of extended-family households had moved from their rural villages to land allotments within the city walls while retaining much of their traditional mode of life and their kin-based social organization.
ISSN:1094-2076
2325-5404
DOI:10.1086/NEA25754028