Borders in Archaeology: Anatolia and the South Caucasus Ca. 3500-500 Bce (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, 58)

This Volume Is Devoted To The Search For Borders In Archaeology And Takes As A Case Study The Archaeology Of Anatolia And The South Caucasus In The Bronze And Iron Ages. Up Until The Mid-first Millennium Bce, These Regions Differ In Interregional And Macro-regional Interactions, Political Complexity, Economic And Mobility Strategies, And Communication Of Identities, Among Which Is The Use And Spread Of Writing Through Time. They Are United By Their Representation In Ancient Sources And Modern Literature As Borderlands. These Features Represent The Core Of The Discussion Developed In The Volume. Chapters Include Theoretical Discussion Of Borders And Boundaries, And Regional Investigations Of The Early, Middle And Late Bronze Age (assyrian Colony Period, Hittite Empire In Anatolia, Kura-araxes, Trialeti-vanadzor, Van-urmia And Other Traditions In The South Caucasus), The Early Iron Age And Middle Iron Age (troy, Phrygia, Urartu), Until The Unification Under The Achaemenid Empire. They Offer A Balanced Interplay Between Site-based Investigations And Landscape Archaeology In Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia And Turkey. Part I. Borders In Archaeology. Borders And Archaeology/ Lorenzo D'alfonso And Karen Rubinson -- On Borders As An Archaeological/historical Problem/ Roderick Campbell. Part Ii. Borders And The Emergance Of Political Borders In Anatolia And The South Caucasus. Are Borders A Usefulconcept In Pre- And Proto-historic Times: A Long History Of Interaction Between Upper Euphrates Societies And Northern Anatolian Communities In The Fourth Millenium Bce/ Marcella Frangipane -- The Border, Frontier, And Boundary Concept Within The Kura-araxes Cultural Phenomenon/ Mehmet Işikli -- A Multiscalar And Multivariate Approah To Annalysis Of Social And Cultural Bounderies In Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia/ Michele Massa. Part Iii. Borders And Political Machines: Anatolia And The South Caucasus In The 2nd Millenium Bce. Comparing Borders: Written And Material Culture Approaches To Definitions Of Political Frontiers In Anatolia 2000-1650 Bce/ Gojko Barjamovic -- Social Bounds And Seasonal Rounds: Territorial Implications Of Highland Interaction And Obligation In The Late Bronze Age South Caucasus/ Ian Lindsay -- Borders In The Archaeology Of The Hittitte Empire/ Lorenzo D'alfonso. Part Iv. Borders In The Age Of Transition: Anatolia And The South Caucasus At The Turn Of The 2nd-1st Millenia Bce. Cultural Borders In The Central Caucasus: The Middle Kra River Valley In The Late Bronze And Early Iron Age/ Jessie Birkett-rees -- Cultural Borders At The Northern And Eastern Edges Of The Central Anatolian Plateau In The Second And Pre-classical First Millennia Bce/ Ayşe Tuba Ökse, Rainer Czichon, And Mehmet Ali Yilmaz. Part V. Towards Supra-regional Political Entities: Anatolia And The South Caucasus During The 1st Millenium Bce. Tro And Phrygia During The Iron Age/ C. Brian Rose -- Bianili's Boundaries/ Paul Zimansky -- In The Nick: Space And Time In The Borderlnds Of Oğlanqala/ Hilary Gopnik. Edited By Lorenzo D'alfonso And Karen S. Rubinson. Includes Bibliographical References.