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POST-COLLAPSE: THE RE-EMERGENCE OF POLITY IN IRON AGE BOĞAZKÖY, CENTRAL ANATOLIA |
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| Authors: | L KEALHOFER P GRAVE H GENZ B MARSH |
| Institution: | (LK) Anthropology Department/Environmental Studies Institute Santa Clara University Santa Clara CA 95053 USA; (PG) Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology Department University of New England Armidale NSW AUSTRALIA 2351; (HG) American University of Beirut Department of History and Archaeology P.O. Box 11-0236 Beirut LEBANON; (BM) Department of Geography Bucknell University Lewisburg PA 17837 USA |
| Abstract: | How communities reorganize after collapse is drawing increasing attention across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Iron Age Bo?azköy provides an archaeological case study of urban and political regeneration after the widespread collapse of eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age empires in the early twelfth century BC. Recent work at Bo?azköy has significantly expanded our understanding of long-term occupation in north central Anatolia. This work counters previous suggestions that Bo?azköy was abandoned after the collapse of the Hittite Empire during the Early Iron Age. In this paper, we focus on the Iron Age occupations at the site to show how growth in the scale and complexity of ceramic production and trade during this period provides another line of evidence for economic and political re-emergence. Based on the increasing diversity of non-local ceramics and ceramic emulations during the Iron Age, we suggest that only in the Late Iron Age, 500–700 years after Hittite collapse, did Bo?azköy re-emerge as a significant polity in central Anatolia. |
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