Borders in Archaeology: Anatolia and the South Caucasus Ca. 3500-500 Bce (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, 58)

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This volume is devoted to the search for borders in archaeology and takes as a case study the archaeology of Anatolia and the South Caucasus in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Up until the mid-first millennium BCE, these regions differ in interregional and macro-regional interactions, political complexity, economic and mobility strategies, and communication of identities, among which is the use and spread of writing through time. They are united by their representation in ancient sources and modern literature as borderlands. These features represent the core of the discussion developed in the volume. Chapters include theoretical discussion of borders and boundaries, and regional investigations of the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age (Assyrian colony period, Hittite empire in Anatolia, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Van-Urmia and other traditions in the South Caucasus), the Early Iron Age and Middle Iron Age (Troy, Phrygia, Urartu), until the unification under the Achaemenid Empire. They offer a balanced interplay between site-based investigations and landscape archaeology in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE BORDERS IN ARCHAEOLOGY BORDERS AND ARCHAEOLOGY ON BORDERS AS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL/HISTORICAL PROBLEM BORDERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL BORDERS IN ANATOLIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS ARE “BORDERS” A USEFUL CONCEPT IN PREAND PROTO-HISTORIC TIMES? A LONG HISTORY OF INTERACTION BETWEEN UPPER EUPHRATES SOCIETIES A THE “BORDER, FRONTIER AND BOUNDARY” CONCEPT WITHIN THE KURA-ARAXES CULTURAL PHENOMENON A MULTISCALAR AND MULTIVARIATE APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES IN EARLY BRONZE AGE WESTERN ANATOLIA BORDERS AND POLITICAL MACHINES. ANATOLIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS IN THE 2ND MILLENNIUM BCE COMPARING BORDERS: WRITTEN AND MATERIAL CULTURE APPROACHES TO DEFINITIONS OF POLITICAL FRONTIERS IN ANATOLIA 2000-1650 BCE SOCIAL BOUNDS AND SEASONAL ROUNDS: TERRITORIAL IMPLICATIONS OF HIGHLAND INTERACTION AND OBLIGATION IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE SOUTH BORDERS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE HITTITE EMPIRE BORDERS IN AN AGE OF TRANSITION. ANATOLIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS AT THE TURN OF THE 2ND – 1ST MILLENNIA BCE CULTURAL BORDERS IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS: THE MIDDLE KURA RIVER VALLEY IN THE LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGE CULTURAL BORDERS AT THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN EDGES OF THE CENTRAL ANATOLIAN PLATEAU IN THE SECOND AND PRE-CLASSICAL FIRST MILLEN TOWARDS SUPRA-REGIONAL POLITICAL ENTITIES: ANATOLIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS DURING THE 1ST MILLENNIUM BCE TROY AND PHRYGIA DURING THE IRON AGE BIAINILI’S BOUNDARIES IN THE NICK: SPACE AND TIME IN THE BORDERLANDS OF OĞLANQALA