AHIS150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Winged Sun, Tel Hazor, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
28 Aug 2018
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* the mb marks a return to urban life following the ebiv. Yet, scholars debate when this re- urbanisation began. Part of the debate surrounds the establishment of a unanimously accepted chronology. This segment introduces some of the issues in establishing the chronology of the. * pottery made mostly on a fast wheel. * tools an weapons made mostly of bronze. * mb 2a 1950-1750 bc (twelth dynasty to early thirteenth dynasty); emergence of northern states. * mb 2b 1750- 1640 bc (late thirteenth dynasty); emergence of southern states. * mb 2c 1640-1530bc (fourteenth dynasty to seventeenth dynasty); emergence of hyksos. * chronology of the mb levant is tied to events in egypt causing issues with understanding chronology (conflicting dates) from lunar eclipses solar . * few literary resources for canaan, but numerous texts from egypt. * execration texts, tale of sinube, the beni hasan tomb reliefs. * many from mesopotamia; the mari letter and alalakh tablets.
