P-07 Hisban in Global History: An Update

The aim of this presentation is to update on progress toward identifying the forces and mechanisms that account for cultural production in the Southern Levant over La Longue Durée. The project is part of a larger effort to produce a final volume (Hesban 14) explaining about the forces that account for multi-millennial cultural changes at Tall Hisban in Jordan. These include changing regional climatic conditions, devastating earthquakes, epidemics and droughts; episodic and extreme pulsations of a steadily expanding global trade and commerce networks and last but not least over five millennia of imperial influence and domination. The poster will provide an overview of the methodology developed for tracing such global history forces on particular localities, in this case Tall Hisban.