"Egalitarian" or "Stratified" Society? Some Notes on Mortuary Practices and Social Structure at Jericho in EB IV

Palumbo, Gaetano

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“…Lapp suggested they represent different periods (Lapp 1966, 99-100), and Dever wrote of several ethnic groups with differences that are chronological as well as cultural, evidence of different backgrounds or political organization (Dever 1971, 208;Dever 1987, 13). Palumbo agrees with the differentiated 'ethnic' segments of the Jericho society according to Kenyon's tomb-type division, but writes of apparent social differences amongst the burials of each tomb type (Palumbo 1987(Palumbo , 56: 1991. Others posit that the differential behaviors in the Jericho burial customs are the result of the social structure (e.g., Shay 1983;Baxevani 1995, 89).…”

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“…These studies consist predominantly of mortuary analyses conducted on formal burial sites, and especially on Jericho (e.g. Shay 1983;Palumbo 1987Palumbo , 1991Baxevani 1995). This is due to the good degree of preservation at Jericho and to the detailed reports written by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s (these reports contain drawings of most of the tombs and their finds, as well as directions, measurements and conditions), which enable continued research and study of the archaeological data.…”

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The fundamental instability of urban or urbanizing forms of settlement in the first half of the third millennium BCE, described in Chapter 3, set the stage for an extended period of regional, non-urban settlement trajectories that covers the entire second half of the third millennium BCE. This long process of urban retreat, which began as early as the first quarter of the third millennium in some regions, may no longer qualify for the sobriquet of collapse, but is nonetheless post-urban. That is, rather than representing a survival of a resilient, primeval village substratum to which urban society reverts at the end of EB III (as proposed by some of those who refuse urban status to any Levantine sites), it should be viewed as a response to the stresses and excesses of the urbanizing trends that had affected large parts of the Levant, and as a risk-minimizing strategy that expanded the resource base for a more dispersed population. A measure of the degree to which IBA settlement recognized previous centers is the peculiar choreography of settlement and burial near and within previously urban sites that will be detailed below. These testify to a persistence of memory and to the existence of a carefully constructed genealogy that underlies territorial claims and affinities of the inhabitants of the non-urban settlements. Similarly, persistent elements of material culture and technological style point to strong links between the urban and post-urban populations in most parts of the Levant.The prolonged urban exodus of EB III should therefore be understood as a redeployment that opened new avenues of opportunity while breaking down the cultural barriers that characterized the ossified landscape of fortified towns. As will be seen, these new opportunities did not lead to the reemergence of centralized polities or to aggregations of wealth. Rather, for the next four centuries, the southern Levant appears to have settled into a "comfort zone," from which it would be jolted only at the start of the second millennium BCEa small-scale, politically segmented, territorially flexible village society.

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"Egalitarian" or "Stratified" Society? Some Notes on Mortuary Practices and Social Structure at Jericho in EB IV

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

The Symbolic and Social Meanings of the Intermediate Bronze Age Copper Daggers

The Symbolic and Social Meanings of the Intermediate Bronze Age Copper Daggers

Subsistence and social change in central Eurasia: stable isotope analysis of populations spanning the Bronze Age transition

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

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