期刊全称 | Ancient West Asian Civilization | 期刊简称 | Geoenvironment and S | 影响因子2023 | Akira Tsuneki,Shigeo Yamada,Ken-ichiro Hisada | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Scrutinizes the interaction between environment and human society in ancient West Asia.Utilizes natural science and humanities, field work and documentary sources, toward the comprehensive understandi | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC..The editors specifically use the term "West Asia" since the "Middle East" is seen as an Eurocentric term. By using this term, the book hopes to mitigate potential bias (i.e. historical and Western) by using a pure geographical term. However, the "West Asia" region is identical to that of the narrower "Middle East," which encompasses modern Iran and Turkey from east to west and Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula from north to south..This volume assembles research from different disciplines, such as the natural sciences, archaeology and philology/linguistics, in order to tackle the question of which circumstances and processes these significant cultural phenomena occurred in West Asia. Scrutinizing subjects such as the relations between climate, geology and human activities, the origins of wheat cultivation and animal domestication, the development of metallurgy, the birth of urbanization and writing, ancient rel | Pindex | Book 2017 |
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