A view from the highlands : archaeological studies in honour of Charles Burney / edited by Antonio Sagona.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burney, Charles, 1930-

Sagona, A. G.

Series:

Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 12.

Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Antiquities.

Turkey.

Antiquities.

Caucasus--Antiquities.

Caucasus.

Iran--Antiquities.

Iran.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

742 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait, plans ; 31 cm.

Other Title:

Archaeological studies in honour of Charles Burney

Place of Publication:

Herent : Peeters, 2004.

Language Note:

English, 1 contribution in German.

Contents:

Charles Burney in the Near Eastern Highlands / Altan Cilingiroglu, Antonio Sagona 3

Charles Burney at Manchester: A Few Personal Recollections / Roger Matthews 13

Charles Burney: Some Selected Personal Reflections / M. Taner Tarhan 17

Anatolia and North Syria

The Neolithic and the Highlands of Eastern Anatolia / Mehmet Ozdogan 23

Activity Areas and Social Organization within Early Trans-Caucasian Houses at Karagunduz Hoyuk, Van / Gulriz Kozbe 35

Salur North: An Early Bronze Age Cemetery in North Central Anatolia / Roger Matthews 55

Andirons at Urkesh: New Evidence for the Hurrian Identity of Early Trans-Caucasian Culture / Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati 67

Upper Mesopotamia and the Caucasus: An Essay on the Evolution of Routes and Road Networks from the Old Assyrian Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire / Catherine Marro 91

Beyond the Frontiers: Mus in the Late Bronze to Roman Periods / Mitchell Rothman 121

Pastoral Tribes and Early Settlements of the Van Region, Eastern Anatoli / Veli Sevin 179

How was an Urartian Fortress Built? / Altan Cilingiroglu 205

Urartian City Planning at Ayanis / Elizabeth C. Stone, Paul Zimansky 233

Reconstruction of the susi Temple at Adilcevaz on Lake Van / Mirjio Salvini 245

Bronze Quivers with Cuneiform Inscriptions from Van-Upper Anzaf Fortress / Oktay Belli 277

Did Xenophon take the Aras High Road? Observations on the Historical Geography of North-East Anatolia / Claudia Sagona 299

Diverse Perspectives on the Anatolian Highlands / M. Taner Tarhan 335

Trans-Caucasus

The Neolithic of Georgia / Tamaz Kiguradze, Medea Menabde 345

The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Phases in the Ararat Plain (Armenia): The View from Aratashen / Ruben Badalyan, Pierre Lombard, Christine Chataigner, Pavel Avetisyan 399

South Caucasus in the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age: The Question of Epochs and Periods / Tufan Akhundov 421

Trans-Caucasian Obsidian: The Exploitation of the Sources and Their Distribution / Ruben Badalyan, Christine Chataigner, Philip L. Kohl 437

Archaeological Sites of the Early Bronze Age in Northern Azerbaijan: A Gazetteer / Ideal Narimanov 467

Social Boundaries and Ritual Landscapes in Late Prehistoric Trans-Caucasus and Highland Anatolia / Antonio Sagona 475

The Chronology of the Caucasus during the Early Metal Age: Observations from Central Trans-Caucasus / Giorgi L. Kavtaradze 539

Urartu and the Southern Caucasian Political Tradition / Adam T. Smith, Tiffany T. Thompson 557

Iran

The Search for the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Transition in the Ushnu-Solduz Valley, Iran / Michael D. Danti, Mary M. Voigt, Robert H. Dyson, Jr. 583

Yanik Tepe and the Early Trans-Caucasian Culture: Problems and Perspectives / Geoffrey D. Summers 617

The Kangavar Survey

Periods VI to IV / T. Cuyler Young, Jr. 645

Dinkha Tepe, Iran, and so-called Urmia Ware / Karen S. Rubinson 661

Aurel Stein in Hasan Ali. Bemalte fruhbronzezeitliche Keramik im Gebeit des Urmia-Sees: 'Hasan Ali Ware' / Stephan Kroll 677

The Hasanlu Lion Pins Again / Oscar White Muscarella 693

Notes on a Fortified Building and a 'Yurt' in Adjacent Registers of the Arjan Bowl / David Stronach 711

Die Halbsaule als Architecktur-Motiv im Vorderen Orient / Wolfram Kleiss 729.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9042913525

OCLC:

52197582