Syro-Anatolian City-States - An Iron Age Culture

This book is the first to characterize the Iron Age city-states of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, using archaeological, historical, and visual evidence to argue for a unified cultural formation characterized above all by diversity and mobility.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: History and Historiography of the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex


• Chapter 2: Diaspora and the Origins of the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex


• Chapter 3: Mobility and SACC During the Early First Millennium


• Chapter 4: On the Edge of Empire: Middle Ground Interactions with Assyria


• Chapter 5: Space and Place in the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex


• Chapter 6: Defining the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex

About the author

James F. Osborne is Assistant Professor of Anatolian Archaeology at the University of Chicago.

Summary

This book is the first to characterize the Iron Age city-states of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, using archaeological, historical, and visual evidence to argue for a unified cultural formation characterized above all by diversity and mobility.

Additional text

Diligently incorporating a tremendous array of archaeological and textual evidence, coupled with highly informative plans, graphs, and maps, this first book-length synthesis on the Syro-Anatolian city-states was a much needed, timely intervention. The author clearly accomplishes the goals he set out for himself, and this book will certainly remain a most reliable source in the field.

Product details

• Authors: James F. Osborne, James F. (Assistant Professor of Anatolia Osborne, James F. (Assistant Professor of Anatolian Archaeology Osborne, Osborne James F.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780199315833
• ISBN: 978-0-19-931583-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Studies in the Archaeology of Ancient States; OXFORD STUDIES ARCHAELOGY ANCIENT SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology