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Turkey's northern edge is a region of contrasts and diversity. From
the rugged peaks of the Pontic mountains and hidden inland valleys
to the plains and rocky alcoves of the Black Sea coast, this
landscape shaped and was shaped by its inhabitants' ways of life,
their local cultural traditions, and the ebbs and flows of
land-based and maritime networks of interaction. Between 2009 and
2011, an international team of specialists and students of the Cide
Archaeological Project (CAP) investigated the challenging
landscapes of the Cide and S enpazar districts of Kastamonu
province. CAP presents the first systematic archaeological survey
of the western Turkish Black Sea region. The information gathered
by the project extends its known human history by 10,000 years and
offers an unprecedented insight into the region's shifting
cultural, social and political ties with Anatolia and the
Circumpontic. This volume presents the project's approach and
methodologies, its results and their interpretation within
period-specific contexts and through a long-term landscape
perspective.
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation
of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of
ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a
comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the
patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in
the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an
international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were
dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success
or failure was determined by a combination of forceful
interventions, as well as the new possibilities for those dominated
by empires to collaborate and profit from doing so. By highlighting
the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the
volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and
literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution
to our understanding of ancient empires. The 'bottom up' approach
to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how
these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist.
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation
of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of
ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a
comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the
patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in
the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an
international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were
dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success
or failure was determined by a combination of forceful
interventions, as well as the new possibilities for those dominated
by empires to collaborate and profit from doing so. By highlighting
the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the
volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and
literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution
to our understanding of ancient empires. The 'bottom up' approach
to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how
these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist.
In this book, Bleda During offers an archaeological analysis of
Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from
20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from
small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical
communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr
During traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which
ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human
developments, including the domestication of animals, metallurgy,
fortified towns and long-distance trading networks. Situated at the
junction between Europe and Asia, Asia Minor has often been
perceived as a bridge for the movement of technologies and ideas.
By contrast, this book argues that cultural developments followed a
distinctive trajectory in Asia Minor from as early as 9,000 BC.
In this book, Bleda During offers an archaeological analysis of
Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from
20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from
small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical
communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr
During traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which
ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human
developments, including the domestication of animals, metallurgy,
fortified towns and long-distance trading networks. Situated at the
junction between Europe and Asia, Asia Minor has often been
perceived as a bridge for the movement of technologies and ideas.
By contrast, this book argues that cultural developments followed a
distinctive trajectory in Asia Minor from as early as 9,000 BC.
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