A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10960487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Massa (0000-0003-4992-9016, British Institute at Ankara, corresponding author), Christoph Bachhuber (University of Oxford), F Şahin (0000-0002-3560-1127, Cukurova University), Hüseyi̇n Erpehli̇van (0000-0002-7612-7118, Bilecik University), James Osborne, James M Osborne (0000-0002-5622-0104, University of Chicago), Anthony J Lauricella (University of Chicago) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Pages | 45-75 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anatolian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-1546 • E-ISSN: 2048-0849 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0066154620000034 |
| OpenAlex | W3040354504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 33 |
This paper synthesises the data and results of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project (2016–2020) in order to address the earliest evidence for cities and states on the Konya and Karaman plains, central Turkey. A nested and integrative approach is developed that draws on a wide range of spatially extensive datasets to outline meaningful trends in settlement, water management and regional defensive systems during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The significance of the regional centre of Türkmen-Karahöyük for a reconstruction of early state polities between the 13th and eighth centuries BCE is addressed. In light of this regional analysis, it is tentatively suggested that, during the Late Bronze Age, Türkmen-Karahöyük was the location of the city of Tarḫuntašša, briefly the Hittite capital during the reign of Muwatalli II. More assuredly, based on the analysis of the newly discovered Middle Iron Age TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1 inscription, it is proposed that Türkmen-Karahöyük was the seat of a kingdom during the eighth century BCE that likely encompassed the Konya and Karaman plains
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Capital city · Economic geography · Geography · Hittite language · Iron Age · Political science · Politics · Reign · Urbanization · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History
Macroregional Settlement Patterns in South-Central Anatolia
Ottoman water-management systems in the Konya Plain, Türki̇ye
The Peoples of Anatolia
Ways of Being
Hartapu – Hittite afterlife following the empire
Years of Adam Mickiewicz University Research at Çatalhöyük (Türkiye)
Resizing Phrygia
On the Identity of Hartapu
Archäologische Forschungen am Karacadağ und eine hieroglyphenluwische Inschrift aus Karaören
The New Inscription from Türkmenkarahöyük and its Historical Context
Eine bedeutende Salzquelle in Karapınar Konya – Meke Gölü (Meke Maar) und ein Gleichsetzungsvorschlag für liki „Salzlecke“ im Staatsvertrag des Kuruntija und Tutḫalija IV
The Archaeology of Hittite Landscapes
Magnetic Gradiometry Survey at the Urban Centre of Türkmen‐Karahöyük (Turkey)
The city of Hartapu
Türkmen-Karahöyük 1
A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey
Grapes and Wine in pre-Roman Anatolia
An archaeometric study of the Konya basin metallic ware through FTIR and XRD analysis with chemometrics
Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways
Collapse, complexity, and caprines
Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age
Unseeing the Past
Hittite diplomatic texts
Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East
Mapping patterns of long-term settlement in Northern Mesopotamia at a large scale
The Making of Hittite Imperial Landscapes
Organized violence in Anatolia
The Borders of the Appanage Kingdom of Tarhuntašša
Kızıldağ Üzerine Yeni Bazı Gözlemler
A Different Viewpoint for Topada Inscription
Empire as network
Staple Economies and Storage in Post-Hittite Anatolia
Pollen-inferred regional vegetation patterns and demographic change in Southern Anatolia through the Holocene
Mid- to late-Holocene climate change in central Turkey
Holocene environment and settlement on the Çarşamba alluvial fan, south‐central Turkey
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the alluvial landscape of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central southern Turkey
Change and continuity in the long-distance exchange networks between western/central Anatolia, northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia, c.3200–1600 BCE
Pastoral Nomads of the 2nd and 3rd Millennia A.D. on the Upper Tigris River, Turkey
The emergence of different social systems in Early Bronze Age Anatolia
Çatalhöyük
Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau, II
The collapse of empire at Gordion in the transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic world
Reassessing western and central Anatolian Early Bronze Age sealing practices
Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau
The Treaty with Ulmi-Tešub
Palaeoecological and archaeological evidence for human occupance in southwest Turkey
A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey
Dating Gordion
The Hulaya River Land and Dadassas
The Discovery of a Prehistoric Site at Sizma
The Urban Quandary and the ‘Mega-Site’ from the Çatalhöyük Perspective
War in Anatolia in the Post-Hittite Period
Primary State Formation Processes on Bronze Age Crete
| Citations per year | 3.67 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |