TY  - BOOK
AU  - Düring,Bleda S.
AU  - Stek,Tesse Dieder
TI  - The archaeology of imperial landscapes: a comparative study of empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world 
SN  - 9781316639245
AV  - DS56 .A77 2018
U1  - 939.4 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - To 622
KW  - To 476
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ancient empires on the ground: Provincial and peripheral perspectives / Bleda Düring & Tesse Stek -- The transformation of rural societies and landscapes -- Engineering empire: A provincial perspective on the Middle Assyrian Empire / Bleda Düring -- The creation of the Assyrian heartland: New data from the "land behind nineveh" / Daniele Morandi Bonacossi -- Pioneers of the Western Desert: The Kharga Oasis in the Achaemenid Empire / Henry Colburn -- Power at a distance: The hellenistic rural exploitation of the "Farther" Chora of Chersonesos (Crimea, Ukraïne) from the perspective of the D'arylga Survey Project / Peter Attema -- Early Roman colonization beyond the Romanizing Agro-Town: Village patterns of settlement and highland exploitation in the Abruzzo, Central Italy / Tesse D. Stek -- The transformation of peripheral societies and landscapes -- Negotiation, violence, and resistance: Urartu's frontiers in the Iron Age Caucasus / Lauren Ristvet -- The archaeology of imperial borderlands: A view from Roman Egypt and Sudan / Anna Lucille Boozer -- Living on the edge: The Roman Empire in the North Mesopotamian Steppe / Lidewijde de Jong & Rocco Palermo -- On the edge: Butrint on the Western Frontier of the Byzantine Empire / Joanita Vroom -- Comparing repertoires of rule in rural and peripheral regions -- Strategies of empire expansion / J. Daniel Rogers -- What's the big picture? Comparative perspectives on the Archaeology of Empire / Bradley J. Parker -- Towards a patchwork perspective on Ancient Empires / Tesse D. Stek & Bleda Düring
ER  -