THOUGHTS ON THE FUNCTION OF ‘PUBLIC BUILDINGS’ IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE SOUTHERN LEVANT

• Published in: The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East Vol. 2; p. 46
• Main Author: Hermann Genz
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxbow Books 30.04.2010; Oxbow Books, Limited
• Subjects: Alloys; Applied arts; Applied sciences; Archaeology; Architectural elements; Architecture; Arts; Bronze age; Bronzes; Buildings; Chalcolithic period; Civil engineering; Construction engineering; Copper alloys; Dwellings; Engineering; Excavations; Institutional buildings; Interior spaces; Materials science; Metallurgy; Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; Palaces; Prehistoric archaeology; Public buildings; Religious buildings; Residential buildings; Rooms; Social sciences; Stone age; Temples; Three age system; Wood buildings

With his excavations at Jerablus Tahtani Eddie Peltenburg has greatly enhanced our understanding of the emergence and development of complex societies in the Northern Levant. Although in contemporary societies of the Southern Levant no elite tombs comparable with Tomb 302 at Jerablus Tahtani (Pelten...