C Glatz
Biographic Data
| ID | 12820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Glatz |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Glatz |
| SIGNATURE | GLATZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5346-1255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Topographic Imaginaries: Mountain Otherness and Archaeological Knowledge Making
This chapter examines some of the historical contexts that have given rise and led to the propagation of what today are common mountain tropes and stereotypes. This requires a close look at the social and political motivations that propelled lowlanders—sometimes neighbours, sometimes distant outsiders—to (re-)produce in their literary works, philosophical treaties, encyclopaedias, and travelogues a series of mostly negative characterizations (oft…
The River Divides? Imagined Borders and Practised Borderities in the Lower Sirwan River Valley
This paper explores two sites recently excavated by the Sirwan Regional Project (SRP)—Tepe Kalan (SRP018) and Kani Masi (SRP094)—located just 14 km apart on opposite sides of the lower Sirwan river in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and occupied simultaneously during the Middle Bronze Age I ( c. 2000–1850 bce ). The MB I was a lively period of political negotiation and cultural reconfiguration across the region, with these dynamics playing out in va…
There and back again: Local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region
During the fourth millennium BC, public institutions developed at several large settlements across greater Mesopotamia. These are widely acknowledged as the first cities and states, yet surprisingly little is known about their emergence, functioning and demise. Here, the authors present new evidence of public institutions at the site of Shakhi Kora in the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq. A sequence of four Late Chalcolit…
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Developing an Integrated Approach beyond Narratives of Catastrophe and Emergency Response
Cultural heritage in the Middle East has over the past decades been treated and discussed in terms of an unfolding catastrophe. International archaeologists have responded with a set of emergency measures that include the remote monitoring of site conditions, the exposing of the trade in illicit antiquities, and the provision of technical assistance and training for the conservation, reconstruction, and monitoring of monuments and sites. These in…
Revealing invisible stews: New results of organic residue analyses of Beveled Rim Bowls from the Late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Beveled Rim Bowls (BRBs) are the most iconic and well-known vessel type of ancient Southwest Asia. Roughly and carelessly produced, these conical bowls are attested in their thousands at 4th millennium BCE sites from southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf to the highlands of eastern Turkey and Iran. Questions regarding their function and relationship with emergent state institutions have stood at the centre of nearly a century of debates about the na…
Reconstructing agro-pastoral practice in the Mesopotamian-Zagros borderlands: Insights from phytolith and FTIR analysis of a dung-rich deposit
The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia: Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation
In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological, iconographic, and textual sources, she offers a fresh account of one of the earliest, well-attested imperialist polities of the ancient Near East. Glatz critically examines the complexity and ever – transforming nature of imperial relationships, and the…
Babylonian Encounters in the Upper Diyala River Valley: Contextualizing the Results of Regional Survey and the 2016-2017 Excavations at Khani Masi
Kassite Babylonia counts among the great powers of the Late Bronze Age Near East. Its kings exchanged diplomatic letters with the pharaohs of Egypt and held their own against their Assyrian and Elamite neighbors. Babylonia's internal workings, however, remain understood in their outlines only, as do its elite's expansionary ambitions, the degrees to which they may have been realized, and the nature of ensuing imperial encounters. This is especial…
Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer
The Land Behind the Land Behind Baghdad: Archaeological Landscapes of the Upper Diyala (Sirwan) River Valley
While the Diyala (Kurdish Sirwan) River Valley is storied in Near Eastern archaeology as home to the Oriental Institute's excavations in the 1930s as well as to Robert McC. Adams’ pioneering archaeological survey, The Land Behind Baghdad , the upper reaches of the river valley remain almost unknown to modern scholarship. Yet this region, at the interface between irrigated lowland Mesopotamia and the Zagros highlands to the north and east, has lon…
Of highland-lowland borderlands: Local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface
Further work at Kilise Tepe, 2007-2011: Refining the Bronze to Iron Age transition
The excavations at Kilise Tepe in the 1990s inevitably left a range of research questions unanswered, and our second spell of work at the site from 2007 to 2011 sought to address some of these, relating to the later second and early first millennia. This article gathers the architectural and stratigraphie results of the renewed excavations, presenting the fresh information about the layout and character of the Late Bronze Age North-West Building …
Negotiating Empire: A Comparative Investigation into the Responses to Hittite Imperialism by the Vassal State of Ugarit and the Kaska of Pontic Anatolia
Cide ve Şenpazar 2009-2010 Yılı Arkeolojik Araştırmaları
Kastamonu ili, Cide ve Şenpazar ilçelerinde gerçekleştirilmekte olan Cide Arkeoloji Projesi, Leiden Üniversitesi Arkeoloji Fakültesi, Glagow Üniversitesi Arkeoloji Bölümü ve Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü'nün ortaklığında yürütülen uluslararası bir arkeolojik yüzey araştırmasıdır. Proje 2009 yılında başlatılmış olup 2011 yaz sezonuyla tamamlanması hedeflenmektedir. Çalışmalar kapsamında tarih öncesi çağlardan Osmanlı Döne…
Bearing the Marks of Control? Reassessing Pot Marks in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
Simple marks on pottery are known in both the archaeological and ethnographic records of various societies, and numerous functions have been proposed for these so-called pot marks. Conventionally, Late Bronze Age Anatolian prefiring pot marks have been identified as signs of the Luwian hieroglyphic script and have been thought to convey information related to the volume or origin of the vessel, the quality of the vessel or its contents, the stora…
Landscape Monuments and Political Competition in Late Bronze Age Anatolia: An Investigation of Costly Signaling Theory
Stone monuments as instruments for the display of political and ideological power are a well-established cross-cultural tradition in early state societies and empires. In this paper, we take another look at the question, why build monuments? or, more precisely, why build monuments in the landscape, away from urban centers that form the main foci for sociopolitical display, competition, and negotiation in these societies? We do so with reference t…
Ancient Turkey . Antonio Sagona and Paul Zimansky
Ceramic diversity, random copying, and tests for selectivity in ceramic production
The historical geography of north-central Anatolia in the Hittite period: Texts and archaeology in concert
In this paper we deploy both archaeological evidence, principally from survey, as well as topographic textual evidence in an integrated attempt to localise a broad range of place-names attested in the Hittite period of the Late Bronze Age. The geographical focus is on the north-central region of Anatolia, particularly relating to the survey area of Inner Paphlagonia. Investigated toponyms include rivers, mountains, regions and settlement names. B…
Empire as network: Spheres of material interaction in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
Anthropology of a Frontier Zone: Hittite-Kaska Relations in Late Bronze Age North-Central Anatolia
The northern and northeastern borders of the Hittite Empire of Late Bronze Age Anatolia hosted a loosely federated group of peoples known as the Kaska. Hittite texts tell us much about the persistent state of hostility between the Hittites and the Kaska, but there have been few serious attempts to understand the Kaska on their own terms. Here we employ a flexible interpretive framework, rooted in frontier studies, in order to review the textual e…
Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer
Ceramic diversity, random copying, and tests for selectivity in ceramic production
Reconstructing agro-pastoral practice in the Mesopotamian-Zagros borderlands: Insights from phytolith and FTIR analysis of a dung-rich deposit
Bearing the Marks of Control? Reassessing Pot Marks in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
Simple marks on pottery are known in both the archaeological and ethnographic records of various societies, and numerous functions have been proposed for these so-called pot marks. Conventionally, Late Bronze Age Anatolian prefiring pot marks have been identified as signs of the Luwian hieroglyphic script and have been thought to convey information related to the volume or origin of the vessel, the quality of the vessel or its contents, the stora…
Babylonian Encounters in the Upper Diyala River Valley: Contextualizing the Results of Regional Survey and the 2016-2017 Excavations at Khani Masi
Kassite Babylonia counts among the great powers of the Late Bronze Age Near East. Its kings exchanged diplomatic letters with the pharaohs of Egypt and held their own against their Assyrian and Elamite neighbors. Babylonia's internal workings, however, remain understood in their outlines only, as do its elite's expansionary ambitions, the degrees to which they may have been realized, and the nature of ensuing imperial encounters. This is especial…
There and back again: Local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region
During the fourth millennium BC, public institutions developed at several large settlements across greater Mesopotamia. These are widely acknowledged as the first cities and states, yet surprisingly little is known about their emergence, functioning and demise. Here, the authors present new evidence of public institutions at the site of Shakhi Kora in the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq. A sequence of four Late Chalcolit…
Further work at Kilise Tepe, 2007-2011: Refining the Bronze to Iron Age transition
The excavations at Kilise Tepe in the 1990s inevitably left a range of research questions unanswered, and our second spell of work at the site from 2007 to 2011 sought to address some of these, relating to the later second and early first millennia. This article gathers the architectural and stratigraphie results of the renewed excavations, presenting the fresh information about the layout and character of the Late Bronze Age North-West Building …
The historical geography of north-central Anatolia in the Hittite period: Texts and archaeology in concert
In this paper we deploy both archaeological evidence, principally from survey, as well as topographic textual evidence in an integrated attempt to localise a broad range of place-names attested in the Hittite period of the Late Bronze Age. The geographical focus is on the north-central region of Anatolia, particularly relating to the survey area of Inner Paphlagonia. Investigated toponyms include rivers, mountains, regions and settlement names. B…
Revealing invisible stews: New results of organic residue analyses of Beveled Rim Bowls from the Late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Beveled Rim Bowls (BRBs) are the most iconic and well-known vessel type of ancient Southwest Asia. Roughly and carelessly produced, these conical bowls are attested in their thousands at 4th millennium BCE sites from southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf to the highlands of eastern Turkey and Iran. Questions regarding their function and relationship with emergent state institutions have stood at the centre of nearly a century of debates about the na…
Anthropology of a Frontier Zone: Hittite-Kaska Relations in Late Bronze Age North-Central Anatolia
The northern and northeastern borders of the Hittite Empire of Late Bronze Age Anatolia hosted a loosely federated group of peoples known as the Kaska. Hittite texts tell us much about the persistent state of hostility between the Hittites and the Kaska, but there have been few serious attempts to understand the Kaska on their own terms. Here we employ a flexible interpretive framework, rooted in frontier studies, in order to review the textual e…
Empire as network: Spheres of material interaction in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
The historical geography of north-central Anatolia in the Hittite period: Texts and archaeology in concert
In this paper we deploy both archaeological evidence, principally from survey, as well as topographic textual evidence in an integrated attempt to localise a broad range of place-names attested in the Hittite period of the Late Bronze Age. The geographical focus is on the north-central region of Anatolia, particularly relating to the survey area of Inner Paphlagonia. Investigated toponyms include rivers, mountains, regions and settlement names. B…
Ancient Turkey . Antonio Sagona and Paul Zimansky
Ceramic diversity, random copying, and tests for selectivity in ceramic production
Landscape Monuments and Political Competition in Late Bronze Age Anatolia: An Investigation of Costly Signaling Theory
Stone monuments as instruments for the display of political and ideological power are a well-established cross-cultural tradition in early state societies and empires. In this paper, we take another look at the question, why build monuments? or, more precisely, why build monuments in the landscape, away from urban centers that form the main foci for sociopolitical display, competition, and negotiation in these societies? We do so with reference t…
Cide ve Şenpazar 2009-2010 Yılı Arkeolojik Araştırmaları
Kastamonu ili, Cide ve Şenpazar ilçelerinde gerçekleştirilmekte olan Cide Arkeoloji Projesi, Leiden Üniversitesi Arkeoloji Fakültesi, Glagow Üniversitesi Arkeoloji Bölümü ve Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü'nün ortaklığında yürütülen uluslararası bir arkeolojik yüzey araştırmasıdır. Proje 2009 yılında başlatılmış olup 2011 yaz sezonuyla tamamlanması hedeflenmektedir. Çalışmalar kapsamında tarih öncesi çağlardan Osmanlı Döne…
Bearing the Marks of Control? Reassessing Pot Marks in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
Simple marks on pottery are known in both the archaeological and ethnographic records of various societies, and numerous functions have been proposed for these so-called pot marks. Conventionally, Late Bronze Age Anatolian prefiring pot marks have been identified as signs of the Luwian hieroglyphic script and have been thought to convey information related to the volume or origin of the vessel, the quality of the vessel or its contents, the stora…
Negotiating Empire: A Comparative Investigation into the Responses to Hittite Imperialism by the Vassal State of Ugarit and the Kaska of Pontic Anatolia
Further work at Kilise Tepe, 2007-2011: Refining the Bronze to Iron Age transition
The excavations at Kilise Tepe in the 1990s inevitably left a range of research questions unanswered, and our second spell of work at the site from 2007 to 2011 sought to address some of these, relating to the later second and early first millennia. This article gathers the architectural and stratigraphie results of the renewed excavations, presenting the fresh information about the layout and character of the Late Bronze Age North-West Building …
Of highland-lowland borderlands: Local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface
The Land Behind the Land Behind Baghdad: Archaeological Landscapes of the Upper Diyala (Sirwan) River Valley
While the Diyala (Kurdish Sirwan) River Valley is storied in Near Eastern archaeology as home to the Oriental Institute's excavations in the 1930s as well as to Robert McC. Adams’ pioneering archaeological survey, The Land Behind Baghdad , the upper reaches of the river valley remain almost unknown to modern scholarship. Yet this region, at the interface between irrigated lowland Mesopotamia and the Zagros highlands to the north and east, has lon…
Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer
Babylonian Encounters in the Upper Diyala River Valley: Contextualizing the Results of Regional Survey and the 2016-2017 Excavations at Khani Masi
Kassite Babylonia counts among the great powers of the Late Bronze Age Near East. Its kings exchanged diplomatic letters with the pharaohs of Egypt and held their own against their Assyrian and Elamite neighbors. Babylonia's internal workings, however, remain understood in their outlines only, as do its elite's expansionary ambitions, the degrees to which they may have been realized, and the nature of ensuing imperial encounters. This is especial…
The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia: Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation
In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological, iconographic, and textual sources, she offers a fresh account of one of the earliest, well-attested imperialist polities of the ancient Near East. Glatz critically examines the complexity and ever – transforming nature of imperial relationships, and the…
Reconstructing agro-pastoral practice in the Mesopotamian-Zagros borderlands: Insights from phytolith and FTIR analysis of a dung-rich deposit
Revealing invisible stews: New results of organic residue analyses of Beveled Rim Bowls from the Late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Beveled Rim Bowls (BRBs) are the most iconic and well-known vessel type of ancient Southwest Asia. Roughly and carelessly produced, these conical bowls are attested in their thousands at 4th millennium BCE sites from southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf to the highlands of eastern Turkey and Iran. Questions regarding their function and relationship with emergent state institutions have stood at the centre of nearly a century of debates about the na…
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Developing an Integrated Approach beyond Narratives of Catastrophe and Emergency Response
Cultural heritage in the Middle East has over the past decades been treated and discussed in terms of an unfolding catastrophe. International archaeologists have responded with a set of emergency measures that include the remote monitoring of site conditions, the exposing of the trade in illicit antiquities, and the provision of technical assistance and training for the conservation, reconstruction, and monitoring of monuments and sites. These in…
There and back again: Local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region
During the fourth millennium BC, public institutions developed at several large settlements across greater Mesopotamia. These are widely acknowledged as the first cities and states, yet surprisingly little is known about their emergence, functioning and demise. Here, the authors present new evidence of public institutions at the site of Shakhi Kora in the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq. A sequence of four Late Chalcolit…
Topographic Imaginaries: Mountain Otherness and Archaeological Knowledge Making
This chapter examines some of the historical contexts that have given rise and led to the propagation of what today are common mountain tropes and stereotypes. This requires a close look at the social and political motivations that propelled lowlanders—sometimes neighbours, sometimes distant outsiders—to (re-)produce in their literary works, philosophical treaties, encyclopaedias, and travelogues a series of mostly negative characterizations (oft…
The River Divides? Imagined Borders and Practised Borderities in the Lower Sirwan River Valley
This paper explores two sites recently excavated by the Sirwan Regional Project (SRP)—Tepe Kalan (SRP018) and Kani Masi (SRP094)—located just 14 km apart on opposite sides of the lower Sirwan river in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and occupied simultaneously during the Middle Bronze Age I ( c. 2000–1850 bce ). The MB I was a lively period of political negotiation and cultural reconfiguration across the region, with these dynamics playing out in va…
Ancient Near East History (15 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (15 works) · Ancient history (13 works) · Bronze Age (11 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works)