Contact, interaction, control : the archaeology of inter-regional relations in late Bronze Age Anatolia
My thesis ~Contact, Interaction, Control - The Archaeology of Inter-Regional Relations in Late Bronze Age Anatolia~ examines from an archaeological perspective a range of regional behaviours and their diachronic transformations that are indicative of a series of forms of interaction between the Hittite political and cultural heartland and its surrounding regions. The overall aim of this thesis is to gain an alternative, regional and bottom-up understanding of Hittite imperialism and its implications for local societies and the roles of decentralised forces in the shaping of a discourse of empire in Late Bronze Age Anatolia and northern Syria. In order to depart from previous practices of interpretation, I have adopted a theoretical framework that is rooted in general analogy with other imperial entities and draws on elements of empire theories and the study of other large-scale systems of unequal interaction. Four strands of archaeological enquiry have been selected in order to approach these issues, in addition to overviews of the range of textually attested modes of imperial- local interaction and the political and economic structures of the imperial heartland and their material expressions. (1) The first
Glatz, Claudia
Contact, interaction, control : the archaeology of inter-regional relations in late Bronze Age Anatolia. My thesis ~Contact, Interaction, Control - The Archaeology of Inter-Regional Relations in Late Bronze Age Anatolia~ examines from an archaeological perspective a range of regional behaviours and their diachronic transformations that are indicative of a series of forms of interaction between the Hittite political and cultural heartland and its surrounding regions. The overall aim of this thesis is to gain an alternative, regional and bottom-up understanding of Hittite imperialism and its implications for local societies and the roles of decentralised forces in the shaping of a discourse of empire in Late Bronze Age Anatolia and northern Syria. In order to depart from previous practices of interpretation, I have adopted a theoretical framework that is rooted in general analogy with other imperial entities and draws on elements of empire theories and the study of other large-scale systems of unequal interaction. Four strands of archaeological enquiry have been selected in order to approach these issues, in addition to overviews of the range of textually attested modes of imperial- local interaction and the political and economic structures of the imperial heartland and their material expressions. (1) The first
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