2009/06/19 by Henriette Hafsaas · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Language and cultural evolution #Bronze Age #Kingdom #Geography #Politics #Capital (architecture) #Ancient history #History #Bronze #Position (finance) #Archaeology #Argument (complex analysis) #Political science #Geology #Economics #Law
paper · doi:10.1080/00293650902978590
openalex publication_date 2009/06/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The Kingdom of Kush flourished in northern Sudan between 2000 and 1500 BCE. During this period, the capital Kerma emerged as a major economic and political centre in the Nile Valley. After a short review of the application of world system theory and centre-periphery perspectives in archaeology, the author proceeds to a presentation of the Bronze Age societies in northern Sudan and their wide-reaching trade relations. A central argument is that an incentive for the rise of the Kingdom of Kush was its intermediate position in long-distance trade between the north and the south. The article concludes with a discussion of Kush as a centre on the periphery of the so-called Bronze Age World System in Afro-Eurasia.