Nancy Highcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1723872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Highcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Highcock |
| SIGNATURE | HIGHCOCK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research , University of Cambridge , Downing Street , Cambridge , UK United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1238-8263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cities and Citadels
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book …
The Construction of Women’s Identities through Commemorative Objects in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
This article focuses on female devotees and divine beneficiaries in Early Mesopotamia, analyzing the nearly 600 known objects dating to the third and second millennia BCE and dedicated by non-royals to the gods, in order to memorialize themselves and others. It seeks to track patterns of gendering objects, namely through the lens of female identities. Such patterns include the relationship between female devotees, goddesses, and particular object…
Niğde Kınık Höyük
The occupation sequence of the first millennium BCE at Niğde Kınık Höyük (Turkey), provides new insights into the early history of the southern Anatolian Plateau. From around 1000 BCE, the site is characterized by a full-fledged urban layout, indicating a previously unattested sociopolitical complexity on the plateau that stems from a reorganization of Hittite and local traditions. During the second half of the first millennium BCE, the site was …
Assyrians Abroad
Recent work by both archaeologists and Assyriologists has characterized the main Assyrian settlement at Kaneš/Kültepe not as “colony” at all but as a place in which Assyrians fully integrated themselves into Anatolian society to create a hybridized community or “middle ground.” This paper builds upon their work by examining the ways in which Assyrians participated in such an intercultural society whilst still maintaining the bounded social catego…
Niğde Kınık Höyük
The occupation sequence of the first millennium BCE at Niğde Kınık Höyük (Turkey), provides new insights into the early history of the southern Anatolian Plateau. From around 1000 BCE, the site is characterized by a full-fledged urban layout, indicating a previously unattested sociopolitical complexity on the plateau that stems from a reorganization of Hittite and local traditions. During the second half of the first millennium BCE, the site was …
Assyrians Abroad
Recent work by both archaeologists and Assyriologists has characterized the main Assyrian settlement at Kaneš/Kültepe not as “colony” at all but as a place in which Assyrians fully integrated themselves into Anatolian society to create a hybridized community or “middle ground.” This paper builds upon their work by examining the ways in which Assyrians participated in such an intercultural society whilst still maintaining the bounded social catego…
The Construction of Women’s Identities through Commemorative Objects in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
This article focuses on female devotees and divine beneficiaries in Early Mesopotamia, analyzing the nearly 600 known objects dating to the third and second millennia BCE and dedicated by non-royals to the gods, in order to memorialize themselves and others. It seeks to track patterns of gendering objects, namely through the lens of female identities. Such patterns include the relationship between female devotees, goddesses, and particular object…
Niğde Kınık Höyük
The occupation sequence of the first millennium BCE at Niğde Kınık Höyük (Turkey), provides new insights into the early history of the southern Anatolian Plateau. From around 1000 BCE, the site is characterized by a full-fledged urban layout, indicating a previously unattested sociopolitical complexity on the plateau that stems from a reorganization of Hittite and local traditions. During the second half of the first millennium BCE, the site was …
Cities and Citadels
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book …
Ancient Near East History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works) · Mesopotamia (2 works)