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The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly
wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the
societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the
fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little
detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically
more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions.
Yet, their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products
of craft specialists, the result of high-volume production, and
therefore important in understanding the social systems in early
complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and
significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically
specific perspectives and from a comparative point of
view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation
to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars
understand cross-regional similarities in development and use.
The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly
wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the
societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the
fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little
detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically
more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions.
Yet, their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products
of craft specialists, the result of high-volume production, and
therefore important in understanding the social systems in early
complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and
significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically
specific perspectives and from a comparative point of
view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation
to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars
understand cross-regional similarities in development and use.
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.
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At Empire's Edge (Hardcover)
Roger Matthews; Edited by Thomas F. Matthews; Claudia glatz
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Project Paphlagonia was a multi-period, large-scale programme of
regional survey in northcentral Turkey, today the provinces of
Cankiri and parts of Karabuek, previously a little explored region.
In total, an area of almost 8,500km2 was surveyed between 1997 and
2001, using both extensive and intensive survey techniques. More
than 330 sites of archaeological and historical significance were
located and recorded. The sites range in date from early
prehistoric to Ottoman, and include Palaeolithic camp-sites,
Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries,
fortified defensive sites of the Hittite and other periods,
Phrygian villages and burial tumuli, and a wealth of small towns,
villages, farmsteads and hill-top refuges of the Hellenistic,
Roman, Byzantine and early Turkish periods. This volume, to be used
in conjunction with the Project Paphlagonia website presents
synthetic treatments of all these periods as well as studies of the
geology, geomorphology and climatology of the region. Studies of
long-term settlement trends and patterns complete this publication
of an important and productive programme of archaeological and
historical survey.
In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and
the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network
in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological,
iconographic, and textual sources, she offers a fresh account of
one of the earliest, well-attested imperialist polities of the
ancient Near East. Glatz critically examines the complexity and
ever - transforming nature of imperial relationships, and the
practices through which Hittite elites and administrators aimed to
bind disparate communities and achieve a measure of sovereignty in
particular places and landscapes. She also tracks the ambiguities
inherent in these practices -- what they did or did not achieve,
how they were resisted, and how they were subtly negotiated in
different regional and cultural contexts.
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