Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations Between Syria and Anatolia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Research Center of Anatolian Stud

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-90-429-2715-5
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 302 mm, Gewicht: 2313 g

Reihe: Ancient Near Eastern Studies S

One of the most intriguing issues facing archaeologists working in the

second millennium BC is the collapse of Late Bronze Age palace economies

and the rise of smaller principalities called the Iron Age kingdoms.

Some of these kingdoms retain vestiges of the previous Hittite Empire

while others represent an ethnic diversity of newly emerging centers of

power. The decentralized kingdoms stretch from Cilicia to the Tigris

River and are situated on both sides of the modern border of Syria and

Turkey. Theories about this political transition have varied from

environmental causes, internal dynastic squabbles in Hattusha, to

marauding bands of mythical "Sea Peoples". Modern political realities

across the border between Turkey and Syria have often minimized the flow

of scholarly information about this important collapse. This book

compares archaeological data from new as well as established excavations

dating to the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Special attention is given to

significant new understandings of chronology that will contextualize the

structural collapses at the end of the Late Bronze Age and will

illuminate the rise of new Iron Age kingdoms and their imperial

ambitions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yener, Ka

Yener, K.A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden