The Archaeology Of Midas And The Phrygians

Author : Lisa Kealhofer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : C. Brian Rose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : C. Brian Rose,Gareth Darbyshire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780924171840

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The Golden Age of King Midas by C. Brian Rose,Gareth Darbyshire Pdf

Gordion is frequently remembered as the location of an intricate knot ultimately cut by Alexander, but in antiquity it served as the center of the Phrygian kingdom that ruled much of Asia Minor during the early millennium B.C.E. The site lies approximately seventy kilometers southeast of Ankara in central Turkey, at the intersection of the great empires of the East (Assyrians, Babylonians, and Hittites) and the West (Greeks and Romans). Consequently, it occupied a strategic position on nearly all trade routes that linked the Mediterranean and the Near East. The University of Pennsylvania has been excavating at Gordion since 1950, unearthing a wide range of discoveries that span nearly four millennia. The vast majority of these artifacts attests to the city's interactions with the other great kingdoms and city states of the Near East during the Iron Age and Archaic periods (ca. 950-540 B.C.E.), especially Assyria, Urartu, Persia, Lydia, Greece, and the Neo-Hittite city-states of North Syria, among others. Gordion is thus the ideal centerpiece of an exhibition dealing with Anatolia and its neighbors during the first millennium B.C.E. Through a special agreement signed between the Republic of Turkey and the University of Pennsylvania, Turkey has loaned the Penn Museum more than one hundred artifacts gathered from four museums in Turkey (Ankara, Gordion, Istanbul, and Antalya) for an exhibition titled The Golden Age of King Midas. The exhibition features most of the material recovered in Tumulus MM, or the "Midas Mound" (ca. 740 B.C.E.), which was the burial site of King Midas's father, as well as a number of objects found in a series of Lydian tombs. The Turkish loan has made possible a uniquely comprehensive and elaborate exhibition that also features a disparate group of rarely seen objects from the Penn Museum's own collections, particularly from sites in the Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Greece. With the historic King Midas (ca. 740-700 B.C.E.) as its guiding theme, the exhibition illuminates the relationships Phrygia maintained with Lydia, Persia, Assyria, and Greece. The accompanying catalog includes full-color illustrations and essays that expound on the sites and objects of the exhibition.

Author : Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : 6053960292

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I Am the Last of the Travelers by Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels Pdf

Author : Gregory McMahon,Sharon R. Steadman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443884822

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The Archaeology of Anatolia by Gregory McMahon,Sharon R. Steadman Pdf

This volume brings together the latest reports on archaeological projects, including excavation and survey, from all periods and every region of Anatolia. It is a forum in which scholars present their most recent data to a global audience, allowing for productive engagement with others working in and near Anatolia regarding discoveries and interpretations. The series offers a venue where recently concluded projects may provide an overview of results, often years ahead of the final publication of complete site reports. Published every two years, The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries series is an invaluable vehicle through which working archaeologists may carry out their most critical task: the presentation of their fieldwork and laboratory research in a timely fashion.

Author : Sharon R. Steadman,Gregory McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : C. Brian Rose,Gareth Darbyshire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536551

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The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion by C. Brian Rose,Gareth Darbyshire Pdf

The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion argues that the history and archaeology of the site of Gordion, in central Turkey, have been misunderstood since the beginning of its excavation in the 1950s. The first excavation director, Rodney Young, found evidence for substantial destruction during the first decade of fieldwork; this was interpreted as proof that Gordion had been destroyed ca. 700 B.C. by the Kimmerians, a group of invaders from the Caucusus/Black Sea region, as attested in several ancient literary sources. During the last decade, however, renewed research on the archaeological evidence, within, above, and below the destruction level indicated that the catastrophe that destroyed much of Gordion occurred 100 years earlier, in 800 B.C., and was the result of a fire that quickly got out of control rather than a foreign invasion. This discovery requires a reassessment of Anatolian history during the entire first millennium B.C. and has serious implications for our understanding of the surrounding regions, such as Assyria, Syria, Greece, and Urartu, among others. The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion is the product of a multidisciplinary research program, with dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating working hand in hand with textual and artifact analysis, each of which is treated in a separate chapter in this volume. All of these categories of evidence point to the same conclusion and demonstrate that we need to look at Gordion, and much of the ancient Near East, in a completely new way. University Museum Monograph, 133

Author : John Oakley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976660

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Athenian Potters and Painters III by John Oakley Pdf

Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops Ð Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms Ð plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed paintersÕ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers Ð chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the special vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. Athenian Potters and Painters III, the proceedings of an international conference held at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2012, will, like the previous two volumes, become a standard reference work in the study of Greek pottery.

Author : Gocha R. Tsetskhladze,Şahin Yıldırım
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803276212

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Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze,Şahin Yıldırım Pdf

Several papers focus on Tios (the Acropolis, the lower city and coin finds). Its place in ancient geography/cartography is considered before moving on to the indigenous inhabitants of the surrounding area, the immediate and greater region, then the Turkish Black Sea region, and outwards to the western, northern and eastern shores of the Black Sea.

Author : Lynn E. Roller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536520

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Incised Drawings from Early Phrygian Gordion by Lynn E. Roller Pdf

In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey. The Museum's Gordion Project continues today, with researchers from many disciplines and with many specializations contributing to a growing—and sometimes changing—body of information and understanding about this complex and multifaceted site, inhabited by peoples and diverse civilizations for millennia. In this volume of Gordion Special Studies, Lynn E. Roller focuses on a series of stone blocks with incised figural and abstract drawings recovered from early Phrygian structures at Gordion. The great majority of the incised stones come from a single structure within the Early Phrygian citadel at Gordion known as Megaron 2, a stone building with several remarkable features and a likely candidate for the citadel's temple. The volume begins with a description of the excavation of the stones and a discussion of Megaron 2. Next is an analysis of the subject matter of the drawings by type, describing scenes of human figures, animals, architectural drawings, geometric patterns, and formless marks. A discussion follows of the sources from which the drawings could have been taken and of parallels with similar scenes and designs on objects in other media from Gordion and other contemporary sites in Anatolia. The fourth section proposes an explanatory hypothesis on the origin of the drawings, and considers who could have made them and why. Parallels with comparable drawings from Anatolia and the Near East are discussed here. The final section summarizes the contribution of the drawings to our understanding of the development of the Early Phrygian material at Gordion. University Museum Monograph, 130

Author : Lisa Kealhofer,Peter Grave,Mary M. Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490313

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

Explores the formation of power during secondary polity formation by integrating multifaceted ceramic and material analyses of Gordion.

Author : mŸr Harman?ah
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976745

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Of Rocks and Water by mŸr Harman?ah Pdf

People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with the mineral world, specifically the landscapes of rocks and water. Working with rock reliefs, sacred springs and lakes, caves, cairns, ruins and other meaningful places, they draw attention to the need for a rigorous field methodology and theoretical framework for working with such special places. At a time when network models, urban-centered and macro-scale perspectives dominate discussions of ancient landscapes, this unusual volume takes us to remote, unmappable places of cultural practice, social imagination and political appropriation. It offers not only a diverse set of case studies approaching small meaningful places in their special geological grounding, but also suggests new methodologies and interpretive approaches to understand places and the processes of place-making.

Author : Naomi F. Miller,Katherine M. Moore,Kathleen Ryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Elspeth Dusinberre
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1931707820

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Gordion Seals and Sealings by Elspeth Dusinberre Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "[a]dditional figures accompanying the volume." -- disc label.

Author : Çiğdem Maner,Mara T. Horowitz,Allan S. Gilbert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004353572

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Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology by Çiğdem Maner,Mara T. Horowitz,Allan S. Gilbert Pdf

This volume presents thirty-five chapters on archaeology, archaeometry, art history, and epigraphy of the Ancient Near East in honor of Professor K. Aslıhan Yener.