Citadel and cemetery in early Bronze Age Anatolia
By: Christoph Bachhuber
Series: Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology -- volume 13
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd; Equinox Publishing (Indonesia); Equinox Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781845536480
Subjects: Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Bronze age; Villages; History; Fortification; Cemeteries; Elite (Social sciences); Agriculture; Landscape archaeology; Social archaeology
Description: "Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia is the first synthetic and interpretive monograph on the region and time period (ca. 3000-2200 BCE). The book organizes this vast, dense and often obscure archaeological corpus into thematic chapters, and isolates three primary contexts for analysis: the settlements and households of villages, the cemeteries of villages, and the monumental citadels of agrarian elites. The book is a study of contrasts between the social logic and ideological/ritual panoply of villages and citadels. The material culture, social organization and social life of Early Bronze Age villages is not radically different from the farming settlements of earlier periods in Anatolia. On the other hand the monumental citadel is unprecedented; the material culture of the Early Bronze Age citadel informs the beginning of a long era in Anatolia, defined by the existence of an agrarian elite who exaggerated inequality and the degree of separation from those who did not live on citadels. This is a study of the ascendance of the citadel ca. 2600 BCE, and related consequences for villages in Early Bronze Age Anatolia"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Four proto-histories; title: Landscape and settlement; title: Villages; title: Cemeteries; title: The monumental choreography of citadels; title: The agrarian foundation of citadel elites; title: Connectivity and refinement on citadels; title: Spectacle and communion on citadels; title: Metahistory and the Bronze Age in Anatolia.