Abstract
Neither a polity, nor a culture, nor an ethnicity in any strict sense, Kura-Araxes has been described as a ‘society against the state’, with an aversion to structures of economic and social centralization. What happens when such a society is thrown into an apparently dependent relationship with a settled urban population? This question is explored through the lens of Tel Bet Yerah/Khirbet el-Kerak, in the Jordan river valley, where a small diasporic Kura-Araxes community settled in abandoned spaces within a 25-hectare walled town, maintaining its corporate identity over a span of two or three generations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 384-400 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | World Archaeology |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Khirbet Kerak
- Kura-Araxes
- Levant
- anarchism
- foodways
- marginality