A New Inter-Regional Trajectory for Interactions Between Northeast Africa and the Southwest Levant during the 4th millennium BCE

Samuel Atkins

A New Inter-Regional Trajectory for Interactions Between Northeast Africa and the Southwest Levant during the 4^th millennium BCE

Samuel Atkins

Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East

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The 4^th millennium BCE was a period of radical transformations taking place in northeast Africa and the southwest Levant. Early interactions between these regions, up to the present time, have been understood as occurring under the impetus of nascent centres of royal power in Upper Egypt. The present paper suggests that the importance of regional dynamics and localised identities have been undervalued. With the application of approaches drawn from sociology and colonial theory, a new trajectory has been derived accounting for the diversity in forms of relations that developed between northeast Africa and the southwest Levant during this period.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	135-163
Number of pages	29
Journal	Strata
Volume	35
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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