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SUMMARY:(Re-)Defining an Ancient Near Eastern Contact Zone
DESCRIPTION:Newly discovered funerary contexts of late 3rd / early 2nd
  millennium BC date at Tayma\, North-west Arabia\, suggest close conta
 cts to the Syro-Levantine world already during the Bronze Age as evide
 nced by ceremonial weapons elsewhere known from so-called warrior-grav
 es. At the same time -- surrounded by an impressive wall -- the oasis 
 reached its largest premodern extension. In addition\, archaeometric a
 nalysis of bronze objects from Tayma indicate an uninterrupted acquisi
 tion of raw materials from the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula throug
 h Bronze to Iron Ages\, together with stratigraphic evidence suggestin
 g a settlement continuity of the oasis\, probably independent from the
  collapse of LBA societies in the Eastern Mediterranean. The interest 
 of foreign powers\, such as Egypt\, Assyria\, Babylon and Achaemenid P
 ersia in the region can thus be understood as consequence of Tayma bei
 ng part of earlier Bronze Age networks.
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