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CONSTRUCTING URBANISM Relating the Construction of Architecture to the Process of Urbanization in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant CONSTRUCTING URBANISM Relating the Construction of Architecture to the Process of Urbanization in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant Robert S. Homsher Thesis Submitted to University College London for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON JANUARY 2013 I, Robert S. Homsher confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 2 ABSTRACT In this thesis, I seek a framework for understanding urbanization during the early Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant by identifying and investigating patterns in the archaeological record during the transition from non-urban society and culture to a system of urbanism. The broad focus of my research is how urbanization occurred during this period, by specifically addressing three questions: (1) how were urban settlements built, in terms of materials and building practices? (2) what was the energetic cost of building cities, and how was this construction organized, in terms of resources and labour? and (3) how does this process of construction relate to the overall organizational processes of urbanization? I investigate patterns in the process of construction during this period by detailing architectural innovations throughout the region within their chronological and stratigraphic contexts. My methods include compiling databases of the dimensions of different aspects of architecture at a number of sites, as well as a detailed sampling and geoarchaeological analysis of mud-bricks at three case-study sites (Dan, Megiddo and Pella). By analysing bricks and reconstructing the process of their manufacture and use, I address the energetic cost of building cities, and how construction was organized, in terms of resources and labour. By highlighting the chaîne opértoire of urban construction, I indicate the key socio-economic mechanisms in practice during urbanization and identify degrees of social organization through labour and material resources. Patterns of labour management and modes of production provide a window into social processes otherwise difficult to perceive, including possible power structures and discrete social entities. Taken together with other aspects of technological innovation during this period, architecture allows for a discussion of urbanization as a process of developing social complexity that is based on patterns of standardization measureable through the archaeological record. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1: TEXT Abstract .................................................................................................................................... 3 Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................... 4 List of Illustrations ................................................................................................................... 8 List of Tables ......................................................................................................................... 11 Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................. 12 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 13 Background ........................................................................................................................ 17 Urbanization ................................................................................................................... 17 Architecture .................................................................................................................... 20 Bricks ............................................................................................................................. 22 Contribution ....................................................................................................................... 24 Structure of the Study ........................................................................................................ 26 2. Context of the Study .......................................................................................................... 27 The Southern Levant ...................................................................................................... 28 Environment ................................................................................................................... 31 “Canaan” and “Canaanite” ............................................................................................. 32 Bronze Age Chronology .................................................................................................... 32 Relative Chronology ...................................................................................................... 32 Absolute Chronology ..................................................................................................... 34 Summary of MB Settlement Patterns and Developments .................................................. 36 Intermediate Bronze Age ............................................................................................... 37 Middle Bronze I ............................................................................................................. 39 Middle Bronze I/II Transition ........................................................................................ 43 Middle Bronze II-III ...................................................................................................... 45 Interpreting Settlement Patterns ..................................................................................... 46 Summary ............................................................................................................................ 52 3. Middle Bronze Age Building Practices ............................................................................. 53 Building Materials ............................................................................................................. 53 Raw materials ................................................................................................................. 54 Building practices .............................................................................................................. 56 4 Mud-bricks ..................................................................................................................... 56 Brick Walls .................................................................................................................... 62 Units of measurement .................................................................................................... 64 Summary ............................................................................................................................ 68 4. Middle Bronze Age Architecture ....................................................................................... 69 Fortifications ...................................................................................................................... 69 Earthworks ..................................................................................................................... 71 City walls ....................................................................................................................... 79 Towers............................................................................................................................ 82 Gates .............................................................................................................................. 83 Public Architecture ............................................................................................................ 84 Palaces............................................................................................................................ 84 Temples .......................................................................................................................... 85 Private Architecture ........................................................................................................... 86 Domestic dwellings ........................................................................................................ 86 Burial practices .............................................................................................................. 87 Urban Planning .................................................................................................................. 88 Summary ............................................................................................................................ 90 5. Review of MB Sites ........................................................................................................... 91 Upper Jordan Valley .......................................................................................................... 94 Dan ..................................................................................................................................... 94 Hazor .............................................................................................................................. 97 Central Jordan Valley ...................................................................................................... 102 Pella.............................................................................................................................
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