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Oct 18, 2016 · Finally, sources abundant during the second half of the third millennium BC that contain important information about administrative activities, duties, and the organization of power both at the central and local level, such as private biographies, royal decrees, and royal annals, are much rarer in the first centuries of the second millennium BC.
2nd millennium BC in the Maya civilization (4 C, 1 P) Metal Ages (2 C, 1 P) Middle Babylonian period (5 C, 1 P) Mycenaean Greece (11 C, 37 P)
The main result was that fibre flax was most probably already cultivated during the 3rd millennium BC, whereas in later periods an intermediate flax and/or oil type was in use.
Pyrgos-Mavroraki, an early 2nd millennium BC proto-industrial settlement, is an excellent case-study on which to apply experimental archaeometallurgy because it presents many different elements connected to the chaine-operatoire of copper metallurgy, typical of Early/Middle Bronze Age Cyprus.
Dec 9, 2019 · Humanity’s supposed singular transition to modernity in the first millennium bc was much messier than previously thought, finds sweeping study of historical data.
Understanding Canaan as Abraham experienced it includes a reconstruction of the climate of Canaan in the early second millennium BC. Such efforts are necessary given the shifts in global climate, changes in local topography and hydrology, presence of intrusive vegetation, and decrease or disappearance of animal ranges.
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East (OHANE) sets out to replace the now very old Cambridge Ancient History (CAH) volumes 1 and 2. This volume, From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC, covers the world of the Late Bronze Age, a period in which Near Eastern states interacted across the eastern Mediterra-nean and western Asia. As compared to the 40 shorter chapters of the ...
