The Archaeology of Political Spaces : The Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BCE / Dominik Bonatz. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014] ©2014 - 1 online resource (234 p.): Zahlr. Abb. davon 1 Abb. 4c - Topoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berliner Studien der Alten Welt ; 12 .

Frontmatter -- Content -- Introduction / Development and Transformation of Settlements and Settlement Systems in the Khabur Headwater Region -- 20th Century BC in the Khabur Triangle Region and the Advent of the Old Assyrian Trade with Anatolia / Neue Tontafelfunde aus dem mitannizeitlichen Taidu - Ein Vorbericht / Tell Abu Hafur 'East', Tell Arbid (Northeastern Syria), and Nemrik (Northern Iraq) as Examples of Small-Scale Rural Settlements in Upper Mesopotamia in the Mittani Period / Tell Fekheriye in the Late Bronze Age: Archaeological Investigations into the Structures of Political Governance in the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont / Settlement Patterns of the Middle Assyrian State: Notes toward an Investigation of State Apparatuses / From Text to Tell: Governance and the Geography of Political Space according to Middle Assyrian Administrative Documents / Development and Transformation of Settlements and Settlement Systems in the Upper Tigris Region -- Ritual Practices and the Emergence of Social Complexity in the Upper Tigris Region at the Beginning of the Second Millennium BC / The Upper Tigris - Cultural Autonomy or Interdependence? The Case of Ziyaret Tepe and Giricano / Salat Tepe and its Vicinity in the Middle Bronze Age: Stratigraphic Sequence and Ceramic Assemblages / Across the Mountains -- The Upper Khabur and the Upper Tigris Valleys during the Late Bronze Age: Settlements and Ceramic Horizons / Die Stadt Kaḫat. Vorposten der königlichen Jagden in Mittelassyrischer Zeit / Index Bonatz, Dominik -- Koliński, Rafał -- Kessler, Karlheinz -- Reiche, Andrzej -- Bonatz, Dominik -- Brown, Brian -- Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva -- Laneri, Nicola -- Bartl, Peter Vinzenz -- Ökse, A. Tuba -- D'Agostino, Anacleto -- Salvini, Mirjo --

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This book, consisting of 12 contributions, amalgamates the most recent results from archaeological research in the Upper Mesopotamian piedmont. Under the growing influence of expanding territorial states which had become established during the 2nd millennium BC, this region experienced a substantial change in social and political life during that time. The discussion is centered around settlement shapes, developments in the material culture, as well as written documents that attest to this change. In summary, this book emphasizes the significant roll of archaeological research in the reconstruction of models concerning the formation and transformation of political space in the ancient world.


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In English.

9783110266405

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Archaeology.
Political institutions and public administration (General).
Archaeology.
Archäologie.
Near East.
Obermesopotamien.
Political Spaces.
Politische Räume.
Upper Mesopotamia.
Vorderasien.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.

DS156.T5

913.031