
Resourcescape and Human Impact in Southwest Asia
Gonca Dardeniz, Bülent Arıkan (eds)
- Pages: approx. 220 p.
- Size:216 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:29 b/w, 60 col., 5 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61668-1
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Gonca Dardeniz is an archaeologist and a chemist interested in how resource use, management, and technologies impacted on social complexity. She uses complimentary methods of archaeology and archaeological science within theoretical frames of social complexity. Her particular focus is 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE Anatolia.
Bülent Arıkan is an archaeologist who is interested in past climate changes, human adaptive responses to these changes as well as anthropogenic impacts on diverse landscapes of the Near East through paleoclimate models and agent-based models.
Landscape archaeology has, in recent years, expanded as a discipline to include various aspects of human-environment interactions in the past. In line with this trend, this volume offers a comprehensive perspective on three topics: theoretical and textual approaches to landscape, which provides an important framework for interdisciplinary research; the use of land and resources, which, while a popular topic in Southwest Asian archaeology, remains relatively understudied in connection to ancient technologies; and human impact on the highlands. The contributions gathered in this volume cover topics as diverse as agricultural practices, metallurgy, trade, and environmental research, and draw together evidence from both textual and material evidence to shed light on different places and periods from the Bronze Age through to the Roman era. Together, these varied case studies offer new insights into how different methods can be utilized to assess unique patterns in human-environment interactions in Southwest Asia.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology (SNELA)
Gonca Dardeniz and Bülent Arıkan
Landscapes
1. Highlands of Elmali Plain (Antalya)
Bülent Arıkan and Hilal Seren Şahin
2. Exposing the Settlement of Historic Landscapes in Vegetated Terrain: The Jezreel Valley Experience
Jeffrey C. Howry
3. Wadi Al Helo: Testimony of Bronze Age Human Impacts on the Highlands
Khuloud Alhouli and Ossama Khalil
4. Toward the Militarized Use of Landscape: Northwest Iran during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (c. 1450–1050 BCE)
Zahra Kouzehgari and Bita Khaterizadeh
5. The Commagene Land Use Wisdom
Yaprak Tanrıverdi, Erhan Akça, Kahraman Yağız, Kemal Zorlu, and Muzaffer Özçiriş
Highland and Lowland Products and Resources: Theories and Textual Records
6. Trade and the Use of Resources in the Ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age
Jan Gerrit Dercksen
7. The Importance of Boat Transport for Ur III Economy: A Preliminary Study
Virginia Cara Girardi
Material Evidence
8. In the Light of New Evidence of Long-Distance Obsidian Trade and Possible Central Place Distribution at the Upper Plain in Cilicia
Orkun Hamza Kayci and Füsun Tülek
9. Arsenical Copper Metallurgy in Anatolia and Iran: A Comparative Approach
Timur Güzey, Mohammadamin Emami, and Gonca Dardeniz
10. The Beginning of Beekeeping in Western Asia and the Levant with some Comments on the Aegean
Prentiss de Jesus
11. Agricultural Production on the Nif Mountain (İzmir)
Göknur Bektaş
12. Surviving the Valley of Plenty: The Earliest Iron Age Occupation at Tell Tayinat (Turkiye) through a Zooarchaeological Lens
Radovan Kabatiar