Ancient Gordion

Author : Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary M. Voigt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108805827

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Ancient Gordion by Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary M. Voigt Pdf

Ancient Gordion has long been recognized as a key Iron Age site for Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean. Archaeological research has revealed much about its sequence of occupation. However, as yet no study has explored the underlying drivers of political and economic change at this site. This volume presents an overview of the political and economic histories supporting emergent elites and how they constructed power at Gordion during the Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). Based on geochemical and typological analysis of nearly 2000 Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic ceramic samples, the volume contextualizes this primary dataset through the lens of ceramic production, consumption, exchange and emulation. Synthesizing site data sets, the volume more broadly contributes to our understanding of the pivotal role of groups and their economic, social, and ritual practices in the creation of complex societies.

Author : John M. Marston
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536926

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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion by John M. Marston Pdf

This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller's 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt's excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. John M. Marston argues that different political and economic systems implemented over time at Gordion resulted in patterns of agricultural decision making that were well adapted to the social setting of farmers in each period, but that these practices had divergent environmental impacts, with some regimes sponsoring sustainable agricultural practices and others leading to significant environmental change. The implications of this book are twofold: Gordion will now be one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East and, thus, serve as a valuable comparable dataset for regional synthesis of agricultural and environmental change, and the methods the author developed to reconstruct agricultural change at Gordion serves as tools to engage questions about the relationship between social and environmental change at sites worldwide. Other books address similar themes but none in the Near East address these themes in diachronic perspective such as we have at Gordion. University Museum Monograph, 145

Author : Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108787017

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Ancient Gordion by Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary Voigt Pdf

Ancient Gordion has long been recognized as a key Iron Age site for Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean. Archaeological research has revealed much about its sequence of occupation. However, as yet no study has explored the underlying drivers of political and economic change at this site. This volume presents an overview of the political and economic histories supporting emergent elites and how they constructed power at Gordion during the Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). Based on geochemical and typological analysis of nearly 2000 Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic ceramic samples, the volume contextualizes this primary dataset through the lens of ceramic production, consumption, exchange and emulation. Synthesizing site data sets, the volume more broadly contributes to our understanding of the pivotal role of groups and their economic, social, and ritual practices in the creation of complex societies.

Author : Lisa Kealhofer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536247

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The Archaeology of Midas and the Phrygians by Lisa Kealhofer Pdf

This book is a succinct and readable account of recent research at Gordion, the ancient capital of Phrygia, long one of the key sites for understanding Iron Age Anatolia. The regional survey at Gordion has involved a range of interdisciplinary studies—archaeological, environmental, and ethnoarchaeological—to produce an unusually comprehensive understanding of how the landscape evolved, the patterns of settlement during the rise and fall of the Phrygian state, and its environmental constraints. With a history of excavation of over a century, Gordion has yielded a vast store of material culture, some of which is spectacular. The Midas tumulus, the architecture of the Phrygian citadel, and the artifacts from several decades of excavations present unique challenges and solutions for conservation methodology. Analyses of these artifacts are providing new insights into the political and economic relationships of this region, particularly from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Presenting current work at Gordion contributes to the broader understanding of archaeology across the region and around the world.

Author : Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault,Ilaria Calini,Robert Hawley,Lorenzo d’Alfonso
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479834631

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Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE) by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault,Ilaria Calini,Robert Hawley,Lorenzo d’Alfonso Pdf

New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Together, these challenge the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, followed by the regeneration of political powers. Current research on newly discovered or reinterpreted textual and material evidence from Western Asia instead suggests that this transition was characterized by a diversity of local responses emerging from diverse environmental settings and culture complexes, as evident in the case studies collected here in history, archaeology, and art history. The editors avoid particularism by adopting a regional organization, with the aim of identifying and tracing similar processes and outcomes emerging locally across the three regions. Ultimately, this volume reimagines the Late Bronze–Iron Age transition as the emergence of a set of recursive processes and outcomes nested firmly in the local cultural interactions of western Asia before the beginning of the new, unifying era of Assyrian imperialism.

Author : C. Brian Rose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536599

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The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas by C. Brian Rose Pdf

Some of the most dramatic new discoveries in Asia Minor have been made at Gordion, the Phrygian capital that controlled much of central Asia Minor for close to two centuries. The most famous ruler of the kingdom was Midas, who regularly negotiated with Greeks in the west and Assyrians in the east during his reign. Excavations have been conducted at Gordion over the course of the last 60 years, all under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In spite of the economic and political importance of Gordion and the Phrygians, the site is consistently omitted from courses in Old World archaeology, primarily because Gordion lies too far to the west for many Near Eastern archaeologists, and too far to the east for classical archaeologists. Moreover, there is no book that offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the material culture of Gordion during the Phrygian period, a gap that will be filled by this volume. The chapters cover all aspects of Gordion's Phrygian settlement topography from the arrival of the Phrygians in the tenth century B.C. through the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 B.C., focusing on the site's changing topography and the consistently fluctuating interaction between the inhabitants and the landscape. A reexamination of the material culture of Phrygian Gordion is particularly timely, given the dramatic recent changes in the site's chronology, wherein the dates of many discoveries have changed by as much as a century. The authors are among the leading experts in Near Eastern archaeology, historic preservation, paleobotany, and ancient furniture, and their articles highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the Gordion project. A significant component of the book is a new color phase plan of the site that succinctly presents the topography in diachronic perspective.

Author : Sharon R. Steadman,Gregory McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195376142

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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia by Sharon R. Steadman,Gregory McMahon Pdf

This title provides comprehensive overviews on archaeological philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century.

Author : Piotr Bienkowski,Alan Millard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 081222115X

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Dictionary of the Ancient Near East by Piotr Bienkowski,Alan Millard Pdf

An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.

Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004495432

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Ancient West & East by G.R. Tsetskhladze Pdf

Author : Naomi F. Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536506

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Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey by Naomi F. Miller Pdf

The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confluence of the Porsuk and Sakarya rivers, Gordion also lies on historic trade routes between east and west as well as north to the Black Sea. Favorably situated for long-distance trade, Gordion's setting is marginal for agricultural cultivation but well suited to pastoral production. It is therefore not surprising that with the exception of a single Chalcolithic site, the earliest settlements in the region are fairly late—they date to the Early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium B.C.). The earliest known levels of Gordion, too, date to the Early Bronze Age, and occupation of at least some part of the site was nearly continuous through at least Roman times (second half of the 1st century B.C.). This work is a contribution to both the archaeobotany of west Asia and the archaeology of the site of Gordion. The book's major concern is understanding long-term changes in the environment and in land use. An important finding, with implications for modern land management, is that the most sustainable use of this landscape involves mixed farming of dry-farmed cereals, summer-irrigated garden crops, and animal husbandry. The large number of samples from the 1988-89 seasons analyzed here make this a rich source for understanding other materials from the Gordion excavations and for comparison with other sites in west Asia. Content of this book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376588. University Museum Monograph, 131

Author : Catherine M. Draycott,Scott Branting,Joseph W. Lehner,Yasemin Özarslan
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912090112

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From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories by Catherine M. Draycott,Scott Branting,Joseph W. Lehner,Yasemin Özarslan Pdf

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca. 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca. 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges to Croesus; the demise of the Urartian Kingdom and ‘Neo-Hittite’-type culture and polities; and the invasion of shadowy forces from the Steppe: Cimmerians, Scythians and Medes. The discoveries of Geoffrey and Francoise Summers’s project at the massive walled city on Kerkenes Da?? have changed the cultural history and texture of Anatolia during this time period, opening up insights into the spread of Phrygian culture and language and inviting further discussion of how the period is framed. This book honors their accomplishments by presenting papers addressing the dynamics and events of that period from various angles, and in various regions and places, as well as other interventions on Iron Age Anatolia, from dating of kings to rare and potentially influential medical techniques. The volume sheds light on and also advocates for further synthesis of the regional dynamics affecting the Mediterranean, Near East and Anatolia together, toward the production of revised, more nuanced narratives.

Author : Naomi F. Miller,Katherine M. Moore,Kathleen Ryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536322

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Sustainable Lifeways by Naomi F. Miller,Katherine M. Moore,Kathleen Ryan Pdf

Sustainable Lifeways addresses forces of conservatism and innovation in societies dependent on the exploitation of aquatic and other wild resources, agriculture, and specialized pastoralism. The volume gathers specialists working in four areas of the world with significant archaeological and paleoenvironmental databases: West Asia, the American Southwest, East Africa, and Andean South America, and contributing to research in three broad time scales: long term (spanning millennia), medium term (archaeological time, spanning centuries or a few thousand years), and recent (ethnohistoric or ethnographic, spanning years or decades). By bringing an archaeological eye to an examination of human response to unpredictable environmental conditions, informed by an understanding of contemporary traditional peoples, the contributors to this volume develop a more detailed picture of how societies perceive environmental risk, how they alter their behavior in the face of changing conditions, and under what challenges the most rapid and far-reaching changes in adaptation have taken place. Sustainable Lifeways enhances our understanding of both the forces of conservatism and innovation which may have been in play in major transitions in the past, such as the development of complex society, and the expansions of early empires. Studies present examples of cattle herders in East Africa, hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in the Levant, South American fisher/farmers, and farmer/hunters of the U.S. Southwest.

Author : Anne Porter,Glenn M. Schwarz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066769

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Sacred Killing by Anne Porter,Glenn M. Schwarz Pdf

What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.

Author : Gocha Tsetskhladze
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004138001

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Ancient West and East by Gocha Tsetskhladze Pdf

Annotation. Ancient West & East is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern and early Byzantine worlds.

Author : Oscar White Muscarella
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004236691

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Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East by Oscar White Muscarella Pdf

Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East follows the evolution of the author’s scholarly work and interests and is divided into several categories of interrelated fields. The first part deals primarily with excavations and associated artifacts, issues in ancient geography and the identification of ancient sites in northwest Iran, the author’s research involving the culture and chronology of the Phrygian capital at Gordion in Anatolia, and the chronology and Iranian cultural relations of a site in the Emirate of Sharjah. Part two is wide-ranging and includes chapters on Aegean and ancient Near Eastern cultural and political interconnections, the role of fibulae in revealing cultural and chronological matters, and the gender-determined usage of parasols and their recognition in excavated contexts. There are also articles specifically concerned with “Plunder Culture” and the forgery of both objects and their alleged proveniences. "At 1,088 pages, this volume provides a wonderful sample– chosen by Muscarella himself – of forty papers spanning the author’s career and many interests...This volume is so rich that it contains something for everyone." D.T. Potts, NYU, Bibliotheca Orientalis lxxIII n° 3-4, mei-augustus 2016