Peripheral Concerns - Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Susan Cohen
The Early Bronze Age
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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This chapter outlines the data relating to settlement and urban development in the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant, with attention to long term and broad scale patterns. This analysis includes an examination and discussion of the evidence for Egyptian activity in the southern Levant throughout the different phases of the Early Bronze Age, followed by an evaluation of the ways in which the changing relationship with an initially intrusive core region affected the nature and course of urban development in the Early Bronze Age southern Levant.