Connectivity In Antiquity — Globalization As A Long-term Historical Process

The authors of these articles have found evidence that the globalization process has its roots deep in the past, in the "space of flows" in antiquity when the Eastern Mediterranean developed metallurgy, while West Syrian societies experienced dynamic growth in the fourth and third millennia BCE, and in the volatility of trade. They examine the cognitive side of globalization in the Hajj of the mediaeval and modern eras, and in the connectivity of the Transjordan during the Persian period. They also look to the antiquity's power of identity in Hadrami Muslims in an Indian Ocean world, in modern residence identities, and in New Kingdom Egypt. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Oystein S. LaBianca is Professor of Anthropology and Senior Director, International Development Program, at Andrews University, Michigan. Sandra Arnold Scham is an archaeologist, the current Washington Correspondent for Archaeology Magazine and the former editor of the journal Near Eastern Archaeology. In addition to teaching the archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Maryland and Catholic University she has also taught at Jerusalem University College in Israel. Sandra has done archaeological work in Israel, Jordan and Southeastern Turkey. For four years between 2001 and 2005, she was the co-director of an Israeli and Palestinian cooperative heritage project funded by the U.S. Department of State-the first such project ever undertaken. From 2008 to 2010 she has been serving as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow in which capacity she is advising the United States Agency for International Development on development strategies in the Middle East and Asia.