A ‘Shoehorn’ at Altyn Depe
A Biased Application of the Urban Revolution Model of Vere Gordon Childe (1950)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19590252 |
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| Authors | Massimo Vidale (0000-0002-0543-6511), Gian Luca Bonora (0000-0001-5170-206X) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 115-125 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2736-2426 • E-ISSN: 2736-2434 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.jua.5.135661 |
| OpenAlex | W4388198795 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper reconsiders the archaeological picture and the involved historical narratives proposed by important seasons of excavations at the third-millennium bc site of Altyn Depe (Turkmenistan) by the former Soviet academy. Thanks to these intensive efforts the site is and will remain crucial for the reconstruction of the evolution of social complexity in southern Central Asia and the neighbouring civilizations; however, we question the validity of some assumptions and interpretations, which appear somehow biased by an aprioristic desire to validate the influential paradigms on early urbanism of V. G. Childe, even at the expense of a realistic assessment of the archaeological evidence. Finally, the paper proposes some new hypotheses which might be tested by future fieldwork
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| Highly cited | No |
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