Niğde Kınık Höyük

New Evidence on Central Anatolia during the First Millennium BCE

Bibliographic Data

ID4587484
AuthorsLorenzo D’alfonso (0000-0001-9163-3417), Burak Yolaçan (0000-0002-6971-1391), Lorenzo Castellano (0000-0003-4076-7145), Nancy Highcock (0000-0002-1238-8263), Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Maria Elena Gorrini, Andrea Trameri (0000-0002-5101-4547)
Year2020
Volume83
Issue1
Pages16-29
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNear Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/707314
OpenAlexW3013183115
LanguageTR
Citations received6
References cited7

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 an important cultic center, per the large repertoire of unearthed statuary and votive objects. Altogether, the evidence allows one to reconsider local and regional trajectories that took place in two key historical phases: the aftermath of the Hittite Empire and the assimilation of central Anatolia into the classical world

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Empire · Geography · Hittite language · Literature · Repertoire · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History