Ancient Turkey

Ancient Turkey

Author: Antonio Sagona

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 113444026X

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Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our knowledge of the development of Anatolia from the earliest arrivals to the end of the Iron Age. Much new material has recently been excavated and unlike Greece, Mesopotamia, and its other neighbours, Turkey has been poorly served in terms of comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible discussions of its ancient past. Ancient Turkey is a much needed resource for students and scholars, providing an up-to-date account of the widespread and extensive archaeological activity in Turkey. Covering the entire span before the Classical period, fully illustrated with over 160 images and written in lively prose, this text will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the archaeology and early history of Turkey and the ancient Near East.


The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

Author: Roger Matthews

Publisher: Central Zagros Archaeological

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1789255260

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Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming in the Fertile Crescent and the establishment of Neolithic culture based on major excavations in Iraq.


The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent

The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent

Author: Tobias Richter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1000813347

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This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent, the so-called hilly flanks, and adjacent regions, as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10,000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent, namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where, when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia, highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming societies. This book is primarily aimed at academics researching the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. It will also be of interest to archaeologists working on this transition in other parts of Eurasia.


Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World

Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World

Author: Colin Renfrew

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1107082730

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This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.


Arrowheads of the Neolithic Levant

Arrowheads of the Neolithic Levant

Author: Avi Gopher

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780931464768

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A multi-dimensional seriation analysis of arrowhead assemblages from Neolithic sites in the Levant is presented. An attempt is made to correlate the relative dating obtained by seriation with stratigraphie evidence and available C-14 dates. The implications of the analysis for the study of diffusion processes and sub-regional contacts is also discussed.


Ziyaret Tepe

Ziyaret Tepe

Author: Timothy Matney

Publisher: Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780956594891

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This unique record charts the important archaeological finds over 18 years at Ziyaret Tepe in southeast Turkey - site of Tushan, a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire dating back to the 9th century BC. Informative, scholarly, copiously illustrated, personal and extremely readable, this groundbreaking book sets a new benchmark in the field.


Quaternary of the Levant

Quaternary of the Levant

Author: Yehouda Enzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 789

ISBN-13: 1316841847

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Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together over eighty contributions from leading researchers to review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from prehistoric sites and palaeoanthropological studies contributing to our understanding of 'out of Africa' migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of modern humans, and the origins of agriculture are assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and genetics. Complemented by overview summaries that draw together the findings of each chapter, the resulting coverage is wide-ranging and cohesive. The cross-disciplinary nature of the volume makes it an invaluable resource for academics and advanced students of Quaternary science and human prehistory, as well as being an important reference for archaeologists working in the region.


The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory

Author: Graeme Barker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 0199559953

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Addressing one of the most debated revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming, this title takes a global view, and integrates an array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology.