Connectivity in antiquity :  globalization as a long-term historical process / 
edited by Øystein S. LaBianca and Sandra Arnold Scham. 
 - London ;  Oakville, Conn. :  Equinox Pub.,  2006. 
 - vi, 175 p. :  ill., maps ;  26 cm. 
 - Approaches to anthropological archaeology .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Connectivity in antiquity-globalization as a long-term historical process -- Introduction: ancient network societies? -- The "space of flows" in antiquity -- Grand narratives, technological revolutions and the past : deep-time studies of metallurgy and social evolution in the Eastern Mediterranean / T. E. Levy -- Emerging state connectivity : dynamic urban and economic growth in third millennium BCE West Syrian societies / William Collins -- Trade pulsations, collapse, and reorientation in the ancient world / William R. Thompson -- The globalizing effects of hajj in the medieval and modern eras / Bethany J. Walker -- Connectivity : TransJordan during the Persian period / Paul J. Ray, Jr -- The organic globalization and socialization of civilization / Sheldon Lee Gosline -- Connectivity in the Longue Duree : hadramis from South Yemen in an Indian Ocean world / Leif Manger -- Perceptions of antiquity and the formation of modern resistance identities -- Sandra Arnold Scham -- Foreign self and familiar other : the impact of "global" connectivity on New Kingdom and Ramesside Egypt / Jenny Cashman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>190476813X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004013027 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Ancient.<br/>Economic history--To 500.<br/>Commerce--History--To 500.<br/>Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.<br/>Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.<br/>Middle East--Antiquities.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CB311  / .C75 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>382/.09/02