Ancient Gordion

by Lisa Kealhofer, Peter Grave, Mary M. Voigt

Overview

Ancient Gordion has long been recognized as a key Iron Age site for Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean. Archaeological research has revealed much about its sequence of occupation. However, as yet no study has explored the underlying drivers of political and economic change at this site. This volume presents an overview of the political and economic histories supporting emergent elites and how they constructed power at Gordion during the Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). Based on geochemical and typological analysis of nearly 2000 Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic ceramic samples, the volume contextualizes this primary dataset through the lens of ceramic production, consumption, exchange and emulation. Synthesizing site data sets, the volume more broadly contributes to our understanding of the pivotal role of groups and their economic, social, and ritual practices in the creation of complex societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108748391
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/08/2022
Series:	Case Studies in Early Societies
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Lisa Kealhofer is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University.

Peter Grave is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of New England, Australia.

Mary Mathilda Voigt is Chancellor Professor of Anthropology emerita at the College of William & Mary.

Table of Contents

Ancient Gordion: Crafting ceramics and community in iron age Anatolia Lisa Kealhofer, Peter Grave, and Mary M. Voigt; Chapter 1. Introduction: Iron age ceramics and Phrygian Gordion; Chapter 2. Inventing identity: Group formation over the long durée; Chapter 3. Contextualizing the ceramic assemblage; Chapter 4. Identifying Gordion's groups; Chapter 5. The late bronze age community at gordion – the late bronze age; Chapter 6. Reconstituting community in the early iron age – the early iron age; Chapter 7. New identities, new communities – the early phrygian period; Chapter 8. Enacting power – The middle phrygian period; Chapter 9. Identities in flux- the late phrygian period; Chapter 10. Conclusion: The dynamics of groups and power at gordion; Appendix: Turkish abstract; References; Index.