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Cultural transmission in the ancient Near East: twenty squares and fifty-eight holes |
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| Authors: | Alex de Voogt Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi Jelmer W Eerkens |
| Institution: | 1. Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA;2. Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA;3. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA |
| Abstract: | Board games have a wide and complex distribution in the ancient world. Two board games from antiquity that were transmitted across the borders of empires and city states and played for nearly two millennia show only minor changes in the appearance of the board. This lack of branching for antique board games can be explained by the abstract characteristics of the games and the dominance of certain cultures in antiquity. A historical analysis of their transmission process supports this hypothesis. |
| Keywords: | Board game Antiquity Diffusion Egypt Mesopotamia Anatolia Levant Iran |
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