Preface
Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Centre and periphery: a review of a concept Michael Rowlands
Part II. Regional Systems and the Genesis of Dependency: 2. The ancient economy, transferable technologies and the Bronze Age world-system: a view from the north-eastern frontier of the Ancient Near East Phil Kohl
3. Cedar forest to silver mountain: social change and the development of long-distance trade in early Near Eastern societies Leon Marfoe
4. On tracking cultural transfers in prehistory: the case of Egypt and lower Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC P.R.S. Moorey
Part III. Regional Interaction and Crisis: 5. Commercial networks in the Ancient Near East Mogens Trolle Larsen
6. Aspects of ceremonial exchange in the Near East during the late second millennium BC Carlo Zaccagnini
7. The collapse of the Near Eastern regional system at the end of the Bronze Age: the case of Syria Mario Liverani
8. Centre and periphery in Bronze Age Scandinavia Kristian Kristiansen
Part IV. Imperial Expansion and its Hinterland: zonal contrasts: 9. Imperial expansion under the Roman Republic Daphne Nash
10. Culture process on the periphery: Belgic Gaul and Rome during the late Republic and early Empire Colin Haselgrove
11. Empire, frontier and the barbarian hinterland: Rome and northern Europe from AD 1-400 Lotte Hedeager
Bibliography
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