Alalakh and the Archaeological Landscape of Mukish: The Political Geography and Population of a Late Bronze Age Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 353 ◽  
pp. 7-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Casana
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Landscape

Anatolian Trade with Europe and Anatolian Geography and Culture Provinces in the Late Bronze Age

1968 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
The Political ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Foreign Occupation ◽  
Initial Knowledge

In another article in this volume, James Macqueen has re-examined the political geography of Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age on the basis of the Hittite texts. As long ago as 1957 we discussed these problems together at Beycesultan and the results that he has reached independently agree in all major points with mine, which are shown in Fig. 1. For the last fifteen years travel and exploration has carried me through most of the territory here discussed, and with this advantage the archaeologist is able to make a contribution towards the problems raised by the inadequacy of the texts which are not concerned with geographical details, but with politics. In a study of this kind an initial knowledge of the terrain and its archaeological remains is essential. In my opinion a thorough knowledge of classical, i.e. mainly Roman and Byzantine conditions in Anatolia is a definite disadvantage, for the conditions imposed by this essentially foreign occupation bear no relation to earlier patterns of settlement and the possibility of chance survivals of place names tends to distract the student of Second Millennium geography. Many of our troubles stem from rash identifications of place names of which one may single out those of Millawanda-Miletus, Lukka-Lycia and Ahhiyawa-Mycenaean Greece (or Rhodes) as key points in any geographical reconstruction.

The Concept of Palestine: The Conception Of Palestine from the Late Bronze Age to the Modern Period

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Masalha
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
The Bible ◽  
School History

The Concept of Palestine is deeply rooted in the collective consciousness of the indigenous people of Palestine and the multicultural ancient past. The name Palestine is the most commonly used from the Late Bronze Age (from 1300 BCE) onwards. The name Palestine is evident in countless histories, inscriptions, maps and coins from antiquity, medieval and modern Palestine. From the Late Bronze Age onwards the names used for the region, such as Djahi, Retenu and Cana'an, all gave way to the name Palestine. Throughout Classical Antiquity the name Palestine remained the most common and during the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods the concept and political geography of Palestine acquired official administrative status. This article sets out to explain the historical origins of the concept of Palestine and the evolving political geography of the country. It will seek to demonstrate how the name ‘Palestine’ (rather than the term ‘Cana'an’) was most commonly and formally used in ancient history. It argues that the legend of the ‘Israelites’ conquest of Cana'an’ and other master narratives of the Bible evolved across many centuries; they are myth-narratives, not evidence-based accurate history. It further argues that academic and school history curricula should be based on historical facts/empirical evidence/archaeological discoveries – not on master narratives or Old Testament sacred-history and religio-ideological constructs.

scholarly journals SETinSTONE: an impact assessment of the human and environmental resource requirements of Late Bronze Age Mycenaean monumental architecture

Antiquity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (358) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Brysbaert
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
Building Activities

Mycenaean monumental architecture has been well studied. Yet the extent to which large-scale building programmes may have contributed to change and crises in Late Bronze Age Greece (c. 1600–1100/1070 BC) has never been investigated using actual field data. The aim of the SETinSTONE project is to assess if and how monumental building activities in Late Bronze Age Greece affected the political and socio-economic structures of Mycenaean polities, and how people may have responded to these changes (Brysbaert 2013).

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
James F. Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
New Model ◽  
Cultural World

This chapter provides a summary of the preceding chapters’ two primary arguments: first, that the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex (SACC) was a critical player in the political and cultural world of the Iron Age; and, second, that a new model needs to be used to describe it, one that celebrates diversity, mobility, fluidity, and hybridity. A preliminary list of attributes that characterizes SACC is offered. Finally, the chapter closes with a consideration of those aspects of SACC that require additional research, especially its Late Bronze Age antecedents and its interaction with other neighbors and contemporaries.

Homer and History: Iliad 9.381-4

Mnemosyne ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe description of Orkhomenos and Egyptian Thebes in Akhilleus' famous comparison at Iliad 9.381-4 seems to reflect the political and economic climate of the Late Bronze Age, and not the seventh century as Walter Burkert has argued in an influential article (1976). A Mycenaean context is indicated by two factors: (1) the idea that wealth 'goes into' (πoτινíσεται, 9.381) a city fits well with Mycenaean economics, but is individual within the Homeric poems; (2) the history of the thirteenth century explains both the onomastic equation between Egyptian and Boiotian Thebes and the replacement of the latter by the former in the comparison.

The Role of the Lukka People in Late Bronze Age Anatolia

Antichthon ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Bryce
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
General Character ◽  
The Political ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Near Eastern

In a number of Near Eastern texts dating to the period of the Hittite New Kingdom, the term Lukka appears as a geographical and/or ethnic designation for one of the Late Bronze Age population groups of western Anatolia. Unfortunately we have no documents which deal primarily or specifically with the Lukka people; what we know of them rests essentially on incidental references in Hittite treaties, letters, prayers and historical records, along with several references in non-Hittite sources. Yet although the evidence is meagre, it still provides a relatively clear picture of the general character of the Lukka people and the role they played in the political and military affairs of Hittite Anatolia.

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