The Kahramanmaraş Valley survey : a crossroads along the Syro-Anatolian frontier / edited by Elizabeth Carter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carter, Elizabeth, 1943- editor.

Series:

Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 51.

Monumenta archaeologica ; 51

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Kahramanmaraş İli (Turkey)--Antiquities.

Kahramanmaraş İli (Turkey).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Turkey--Kahramanmaraş İli.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.

Antiquities.

Turkey--Kahramanmaraş İli.

Physical Description:

xix, 409 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Crossroads along the Syro-Anatolian frontier

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The proposed volume presents a study of local landscape histories in a pivotal, but largelyperipheral, region. It is a final report on the surface surveys carried out in the Kahramanmaraşregion of southeastern Turkey between 1993 and 2000. Maraş was often on a border, removedfrom the centers of political power. It was pulled between Antioch to the south and the areasalong the Euphrates to the east. After an introduction to the project and region, we present anoverview of the environmental factors affecting settlement in the survey area (Chapter 2). Thenwe outline the record of settlement patterns beginning with the first settlement of the valley inthe Neolithic and ending with the Islamic era (Chapters 3-9). We also present the results of an intensive full coverage and transect surveys around Domuztepe, KM 97, and the modeling basedon them (Chapter 10), which evaluates our survey methodologies and offers various possible reconstructions of the total landscape. In the concluding section, these various lines of inquiryare integrated into a broadly based picture of how the ancient residents of the valley made thiszone between Syria and Anatolia their home; we discuss what these landscape signatures meanlocally and how they are tied to the larger patterns of interregional growth and decline"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Borderlands archaeology, research goals and methods / Elizabeth Carter

2. Part I: Holocene Environmental Change in the Kahramanmaraş Valley: The Palynological Evidence of the Sağlik Ovası / Hendrik Woldring, Harm Jan Streurman, Johannes van der Plicht, Elsa Kleine, and Ceran Şekeryapan ; Part II: Environmental and Climate Change in the Kahramanmaraş Valley, Turkey, during the Late Glacial, and early Holocene: evidence from freshwater ostracods / Ceran Şekeryapan

3. The Neolithic: The first settlers in the Kahramanmaraş Valley / Çiğdem Atakuman

4. The Local Late Chalcolithic: The growth of the Kahramanmaraş Valley / Elizabeth Carter

5. The Early Bronze Age: Fragmentation within the Kahrmamanmaraş Valley / Elizabeth Carter

6. The Middle and Late Bronze Ages in the Kahramanmaraş Valley: From the Kingdom of Mamma to the rise of Gurgum / Elizabeth Carter

7. The Middle- to-Late Iron Age, c. 1000-333 BCE: Gurgum and Assyria / Elizabeth Carter

8. The Hellenistic and Late Roman Period, c. 333 BCE-300 CE: Maraş and Commagene / Elizabeth Carter and Peter Stone

9. ʻAmq al-Marʻash: Settlement and Land Use on the Frontier in the Islamic Periods / Alexander Asa Eger

10. Patterns in the Past: Model Building and the Identification of Settlement Change in the Kahramanmaraş Valley / Elizabeth Mullane Steadman

11. Summary and Prospects for Future Research / Elizabeth Carter

Appendix 1. Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic Traces / Jeffery Brantingham and Elizabeth Healey

Appendix 2. Site Gazetteer: on-line at the Alexandrian Archive Institute / Elizabeth Carter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781950446483

1950446484

OCLC:

1393439713