Authority, polity, and tenuous elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 373-395

  Porter, Benjamin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELITE POLITICS; IRON AGE; POLITICAL HISTORY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 8744241507     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2004.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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