The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon R. Steadman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 1193 |
Release | 2011-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195376145 |
This title provides comprehensive overviews on archaeological philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century.
A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period
Title | A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period PDF eBook |
Author | Gojko Barjamovic |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Assyria |
ISBN | 8763536455 |
This study includes a revised model of the historical geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (c. 1969-1715 BC), that is based on topographical, archaeological, and written records. The book challenges traditional views of Anatolian geography by using arguments based on logistics, infrastructure, and the organization of trade to suggest a new interpretation focused on central markets, fluctuating prices, and interlocking regional systems of exchange. The historical implications of this revised geography for Old Assyrian and early Hittite history and Bronze Age archaeology are extensively discussed. The book contains translations and discussions of passages from hundreds of published and unpublished Old Assyrian texts and gives a comprehensive inventory of Anatolian toponyms, accompanied by numerous photographs and maps.
Ancient Turkey
Title | Ancient Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Seton Lloyd |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520220423 |
An archaeologist who has spent much of his life in the Near East attempts to share his profound interest in an antique land, its inhabitants, and the surviving monuments that link the present to the past. Illustrations.
From Hittite to Homer
Title | From Hittite to Homer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary R. Bachvarova |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 691 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521509793 |
This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.
Anatolia
Title | Anatolia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Time Life Education |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780809491087 |
Traces the history of civilization in ancient Asiatic Turkey; examines the ruins and artifacts of its Persian, Roman, Greek, and other cultural heritages; and describes recent archaeological finds
Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia
Title | Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Parker |
Publisher | British Academy |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | History |
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Ancient Anatolia was a region where indigenous peoples mixed with conquerors and incomers: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Names from all these sources intermingled, and it is by studying them that the cultural interactions and changes and resistances that occurred can be illuminated.
Ancient Kanesh
Title | Ancient Kanesh PDF eBook |
Author | Mogens Trolle Larsen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2015-09-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1316425444 |
The ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh (present-day Kültepe, Turkey) was a continuously inhabited site from the early Bronze Age through Roman times. The city flourished c.2000–1750 BCE as an Old Assyrian trade outpost and the earliest attested commercial society in world history. More than 23,000 elaborate clay tablets from private merchant houses provide a detailed description of a system of long-distance trade that reached from central Asia to the Black Sea region and the Aegean. The texts record common activities such as trade between Kanesh and the city state of Assur, and between Assyrian merchants and local people. The tablets tell us about the economy as well as the culture, language, religion, and private lives of individuals we can identify by name, occupation, and sometimes even personality. This book presents an in-depth account of this vibrant Bronze Age Anatolian society, revealing the daily lives of its inhabitants.