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Title: | In search of Tabal, central Anatolia: Iron Age interaction at Alişar Höyük |
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Contributor(s): | Kealhofer, Lisa (author); Grave, Peter (author) ; Marsh, Ben (author) |
Publication Date: | 2023-05-15 |
Open Access: | Yes |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0066154623000029 |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/55692 |
Abstract: | Trajectories of social complexity following socio-political collapse have provided fertile ground for new theoretical and methodological perspectives in archaeology. Here we investigate ceramics from the site of Alişar Höyük, a settlement that was likely part of the Iron Age polity of Tabal. Best known from Assyrian texts, Tabal emerged in central Anatolia after the Late Bronze Age Hittite collapse, but its structure and operation remain enigmatic. Excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, a large sample of ceramics from Alişar has since been curated at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Using multiple perspectives on this Middle Iron Age ceramic sample, we explore the political and economic structures at this site in terms of its interaction sphere. Our results suggest that if Alişar was part of Tabal, by the Middle Iron Age this polity was highly intra-regionally integrated, competitive and heterarchical. |
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Grant Details: | ARC/DP0558992 |
Source of Publication: | Anatolian Studies, v.73, p. 1-30 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
ISSN: | 2048-0849 0066-1546 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430101 Archaeological science 430104 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 120305 Stone, ceramics and clay materials |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes |
HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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