Series Minor No. 45

Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2022
Hardback
408 pp., 1 map, full colour

ISBN 978-615-5766-54-1
ISSN 12 166 847

Description

This anthology presents twelve papers held in a session with the same title during the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeology (EAA) in Bern in 2019. Taken together, the papers demonstrate that Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1700–1200 BC) was not simply a buffer zone between the other, better-studied regions and states of the north-eastern Mediterranean. Most archaeological textbooks had previously largely ignored the importance of western Asia Minor, instead viewing the region as a kind of conflict zone between the two major powers to the west (Mycenaean Greece) and to the east (Hatti). Rather, it was a distinct region with specific socio-political and cultural developments that was closely integrated into the political and economic networks of the time. Contemporary texts also suggest that the western Asia Minor was of great political and military importance, and that individual states and federations may have ultimately challenged Hittite hegemony over Anatolia.

Table of contents

Jorrit Kelder Foreword 7
Ivo Hajnal North of Troy – an Interdisciplinary Approach 11
Eberhard Zangger, Alper Aşınmaz and Serdal Mutlu Middle and Late Bronze Age Western Asia Minor: A Status Report 39
Maya Vassileva The Southeastern Balkans and the Late Bronze Age Aegean-Anatolian Network 181
Alwin Kloekhorst Luwians, Lydians, Etruscans, and Troy 201
Willemijn Waal The Missing Link? Writing in West Anatolia During the Late Bronze Age 229
Fred C. Woudhuizen Arzawa, Assuwa, and Mira: Three Names for One and the Same Country in Western Anatolia 271
Francis Breyer Hieroglyphic and Cuneiform Luwian: Two Luwian Functiolects 303
Sefa Taşkın Possible Coastal Luwian Settlements in the Northeast Aegean 315
Haldun Aydingün Hittite Traces in Istanbul 331
Christoph Bachhuber In Search of a Luwian Land 353
Antonis Kourkoulakos Did Hattusili I Destroy Beycesultan II? 377
Ulrike Berndt What Shapes a Find Assemblage? 395