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| | | January 18, 2013 |
| Archaeology of Anatolia |
| Welcome to the first issue of our new biweekly e-newsletter! This issue features highlights from Anatolian Archaeology Month on the ASOR Blog, and the latest happenings at ASOR. Check out the sidebar for up-to-the-minute ASOR news. Check out the articles below to learn about exciting new developments in archaeology in Turkey, from conservation methods used on ancient royal furniture to insights on a Neolithic and Bronze Age tell. If you like what you read, be sure to check the ASOR Blog regularly for new articles. |
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| The Gordion Furniture Project |
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By: Krysia Spirydowicz The ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Anatolia was first explored in the early 1950s by a team from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Located approximately 100 km southwest of Ankara, this impressive site consists of a flat city mound with occupation levels dating from the Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic times and nearby clusters of burial mounds or tumuli. Rodney Young, the first director of excavations, explored three of the largest tumuli (Tumulus MM, P and W) as well as sections of the City Mound. Over 40 pieces of ornate, inlaid furniture dating to the eighth century BC were discovered in wooden burial chambers located deep inside the large earthen mounds. Read more.... |
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| Ulucak: A Prehistoric Mound in Aegean Turkey |
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By: Özlem Çevik and Çiler Çilingiroğlu Ulucak is a settlement mound located 25 km east of Izmir, in western Turkey. The mound contains cultural accumulations spanning periods from the Early Neolithic to Late Roman-Early Byzantine periods. The lengthy sequence at Ulucak allows observations on long-term continuities and discontinuities in the settlement layout, architecture, material culture, and subsistence patterns in Aegean Turkey over many millennia.(Dept of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Izmir, Turkey). Read more... |
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| Prehistoric Anatolia and the Archeology of Warfare |
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By: Stephanie Selover My dissertation project centers on the study of evidence of warfare from Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age Central and Southeastern Anatolia. To date, research on the subject of warfare in the Ancient Near East in general and Anatolia in particular has been largely limited to overviews that include the entirety of the Ancient Near East and go into few details. Read more... |
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| From History and Myth, Anatolians in Mycenaean Greece |
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By: Josh Cannon The Late Bronze Age (LBA) of Anatolia is a period that has been described to us through history and myth. The history of LBA Anatolia comes primarily from the Hittites, who actively created and maintained records. Written in cuneiform, these records provide us with a wealth of information ranging from sweeping royal military campaigns to the correspondence of local leaders discussing missing slaves. The myth comes predominantly from the Archaic and Classical Greeks who wrote about how their Bronze Age ancestors interacted with their Anatolian neighbors. The most famous story of this nature is Homer’s Iliad. If we carefully weave the historical knowledge together with the myth, we can use the two together to accomplish more than either can do alone. However, this is a delicate task. Both sources need to be treated with their shortcomings in mind. For instance, one issue with the historical record is that it is incomplete. This is due to several reasons, though time will allow us to improve some of them. With time, scholars will continue to translate the many Hittite tablets that have been uncovered. Also, additional Hittite tablets will come to light through archaeological excavations. What time cannot touch are the historical details that were never recorded by the Hittites, details that were left out because they were deemed insignificant or perhaps politically damaging. Read more... |
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