Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Susan Cohen
Urban Development: Models and Frameworks
Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Susan Cohen
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Montana State University
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Susan L. Cohen received her Ph.D. in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology and Hebrew Bible from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2000. Her research focuses on the archaeology, history, and international interconnections of the Bronze Age in the southern Levant, with emphasis on rural settlement and subsistence, rural-urban relations, and synchronisms and interactions with ancient Egypt. She was Director of the excavations at the Middle Bronze Age mortuary site of Gesher, and the small rural multi-period site of Tel Zahara, both in the Jordan Valley, and is Co-Director of the Tell Abu Shusha excavations beginning in summer 2019. She is currently Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University, and Chair of the Fellowships Committee of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
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Multiple models exist for examining urban development, the growth of complex society, and interactions between cultures in the ancient world. This chapter outlines and evaluates many of these different theoretical approaches and examines the factors that influence the development, stability, and sustainability of urban development. This includes analysis and discussion of exogenous and indigenous influences on urban development, core-periphery relationships, and the patterns that indicate these processes as they relate to urban development in the Bronze Age southern Levant.