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Spatial Webs charts the cultural heritage and identity of Anatolia,
focusing on projects that incorporate Geographic Information
Systems and other analytical tools in spatially significant
research into the past. An important new contribution to
archaeology and cultural heritage research, the volume brings
together multidisciplinary researchers engaged in creating and
using spatialized data resources for interactive web-mapping
applications. The topics explored include sociospatial
differentiation in bostancibasi registers, identity mapping the
Jewish communities of medieval Anatolia, and the Turkey Cultural
Heritage Map of the Hrant Dink Foundation.
Understanding the varied and dynamic interactions between
environment and society in Anatolia. In recent decades, the
influences of environmental and climatic conditions on past human
societies have attracted significant attention from both the
scientific community and the general public. Anatolia's location at
the conjunction of Asia, Europe, and Africa and at the intersection
of three climatic systems makes it well suited for the study of
such effects. In particular, Anatolia challenges many assumptions
about how climatic factors affect the socio-political organization
and historical evolution, highlighting the importance of close
collaboration between archaeologists, historians, and climate
scientists. Integrating high-resolution archaeological, textual,
and environmental data with longer-term, low-resolution data on
past climates, this volume of essays, drawn from the fifteenth
International ANAMED Annual Symposium (IAAS) at Koc University's
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, showcases recent
evidence for periods of climate change and human responses to it,
exploring the causes underlying societal change across several
millennia.
This generously illustrated volume, honoring Crawford H.
Greenewalt, Jr., field director of the Sardis Expedition for over
thirty years, and commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the
Harvard- Cornell archaeological excavation, presents new studies by
scholars closely involved with Professor Greenewalt's excavations
at this site in western Turkey. The essays span the Archaic to the
Late Antique periods, focusing primarily on Sardis itself but also
touching on other archaeological sites in the eastern
Mediterranean. Three papers publish for the first time an Archaic
painted tomb near Sardis with lavish interior furnishings. Papers
on Sardis in late antiquity focus on domestic wall paintings,
spolia used in the late Roman Synagogue, and late fifth-century
coin hoards. Other Sardis papers examine the layout of the city
from the Lydian to the Roman periods, the transformation of Sardis
from an imperial capital to a Hellenistic polis, the reuse of
pottery in the Lydian period, and the history and achievements of
the conservation program at the site. Studies of an Archaic seal
from Gordion, queenly patronage of Hellenistic rotundas, and
ancient and modern approaches to architectural ornament round out
the volume.
In The Archaeology of Lydia: From Gyges to Alexander, Christopher
Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology
of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished
evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology of Sardis,
the ancient capital of the region. Combining data from regional
surveys, stylistic analyses of artifacts in local museums, ancient
texts, and environmental studies, he presents a new perspective on
the archaeology of this area. To assess the importance of Lydian
landscapes under Lydian and Achaemenid rule, roughly between the
seventh and fourth centuries BCE, Roosevelt situates the
archaeological evidence within frameworks established by evidence
for ancient geography, environmental conditions, and resource
availability and exploitation. Drawing on detailed and copiously
illustrated evidence presented in a regionally organized catalogue,
the book considers the significance of evidence of settlement and
burial at Sardis and beyond for understanding Lydian society as a
whole and the continuity of cultural traditions across the
transition from Lydian to Achaemenid hegemony.
In The Archaeology of Lydia: From Gyges to Alexander, Christopher
Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional archaeology
of Lydia in western Turkey, including much previously unpublished
evidence as well as a fresh synthesis of the archaeology of Sardis,
the ancient capital of the region. Combining data from regional
surveys, stylistic analyses of artifacts in local museums, ancient
texts, and environmental studies, he presents a new perspective on
the archaeology of this area. To assess the importance of Lydian
landscapes under Lydian and Achaemenid rule, roughly between the
seventh and fourth centuries BCE, Roosevelt situates the
archaeological evidence within frameworks established by evidence
for ancient geography, environmental conditions, and resource
availability and exploitation. Drawing on detailed and copiously
illustrated evidence presented in a regionally organized catalogue,
the book considers the significance of evidence of settlement and
burial at Sardis and beyond for understanding Lydian society as a
whole and the continuity of cultural traditions across the
transition from Lydian to Achaemenid hegemony.
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