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The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the Bronze Age. 'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant' provides an overview of the sources and distribution of commodities. The book presents a study of key production centres and the process of purchase and exchange. The book establishes a theoretical framework - based in political economy, ethnoarchaeology and economic anthropology - for understanding the exchange of commodities in a precapitalist society. 'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant' is unique in presenting archaeological sources and prehistoric economics through modern, notably Marxist, theories of human development.

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Ianir Milevski is a Research Archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, a postdoctoral fellow in the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, and has acted as a visiting lecturer in several Argentinian universities. He has excavated extensively in Israel, focusing mainly on Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age sites. His research interests include diverse aspects of the Late Prehistoric periods in the Levant and mainly the study of socio-economic formations.

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