Archaeological Manifestations of Empire: Assyria's Imprint on Southeastern Anatolia

Goose Keeping, Elite Emulation and Egyptianized Feasting at Late Bronze Lachish

“…Indeed, although there is a significant difference between Canaan and Nubia under Egyptian hegemony, they do share the comparable situation of having been located on the periphery of the empire's core for some 300 years. A similar situation transpired in the Neo-Assyrian empire, where local elite in provinces with diverse backgrounds and cultural traditions were influenced in numerous ways over time by the central culture and to some degree had an influence on the centre as well (Winter 1977;Postgate 1992: 257-260;Parker 2003Parker , 2011Parpola 2003Parpola , 2007Porter 2004;cf. Na'aman and Thareani 2006;Thareani 2009).…”

Empire as network: Spheres of material interaction in Late Bronze Age Anatolia

“…This, in addition to an abundant textual-historical record, may partly explain the reluctance of archaeologists working in Anatolia (Gorny, 1995(Gorny, , 2002 and the Near East (Adams, 1979;Postgate, 1992Postgate, , 1994Matthews, 2003, pp. 127-128 for an exception see Parker, 2003) to engage with this subject. The problem, however, is not the nature or inadequacy of the archaeological record, but the top-down manner in which indirect political dependency, but also states and empires in general (Smith, 2003), and their material manifestations are traditionally conceptualized.…”

2 Assessing the Politics of Neo‐Assyrian Agriculture

“…Archaeological survey observes that settlement in the Upper Tigris River Valley jumped at this time from 19 sites in the Early Iron Age (ca. 1050–900 BCE), to 29 settlements in the Neo‐Assyrian period (Parker , 536). This proliferation of sites was accompanied by a shift in settlement distribution patterns, from rural habitation in the steppe foothills surrounding the river valley in the Early Iron Age, to a concentration of hamlets and villages within the arable floodplain in the Neo‐Assyrian period (Parker , 536).…”

“…1050–900 BCE), to 29 settlements in the Neo‐Assyrian period (Parker , 536). This proliferation of sites was accompanied by a shift in settlement distribution patterns, from rural habitation in the steppe foothills surrounding the river valley in the Early Iron Age, to a concentration of hamlets and villages within the arable floodplain in the Neo‐Assyrian period (Parker , 536). These rural occupations constituted farmsteads implanted under agricultural colonization to cultivate the river valley and generate resources for the empire.…”