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      The archaeology of Hittite landscapes: A view from the southwestern borderlands

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      Author(s)
      Harmanşah, Ömür
      Johnson, Peri
      Durusu-Tanrıöver, Müge
      Marsh, Ben
      Date
      2022-03-30
      Source Title
      Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
      Electronic ISSN
      2166-3548
      Publisher
      Penn State University Press
      Volume
      10
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      1 - 48
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article layers material, physical, and textual landscapes of the Hittite Empire in a compact borderland region. We argue that a real strength of landscape archaeology is in understanding and articulating medium-scale landscapes through archaeological survey methods and critical study of physical geography. Medium-scale landscapes are a milieu of daily human experience, movement, and visuality that spawn a densely textured countryside involving settlements, sacred places, quarries, roads, transhumance routes, and water infrastructures. Using the data and the experience from eight field seasons by the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project team since 2010, we offer accounts of three specific landscapes: The Ilgın Plain, the Bulasan River valley near the Hittite fortress of Kale Tepesi, and the pastoral uplands of Yalburt Yaylası. For each, we demonstrate different sets of relationships and landscape dynamics during the Late Bronze Age, with specific emphasis on movement, settlement, taskscapes, land use, and human experience. © 2022 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
      Keywords
      Countryside
      Experience
      Hittite Empire
      Landscape
      Medium scale
      Survey methodology
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111950
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.1.0001
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