NEO-HITTITES IN THE "LAND OF PALISTIN": Renewed Investigations at Tell Taʿyinat on the Plain of Antioch

Harrison, Timothy P.

doi:10.1086/nea25754026

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“…The second major source of urban data is the large-scale excavation campaigns that have been undertaken at the site, first in the 1930s by the Syrian-Hittite Expedition of the University of Chicago (Haines 1971), and more recently since 2004 by the Tayinat Archaeological Project of the University of Toronto (Harrison 2009;Harrison & Osborne 2012;Welton et al 2011). Figure 3, a composite plan combining all of this information, reveals what we currently know of the layout of Kunulua during the ninth and eighth centuries bc, the stratum excavators refer to as the site's Second Building Period -only a fraction of the city, to be sure, but nevertheless a reasonably robust sample size.…”

Section: Form and Monument In The Citymentioning

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Settlement Planning and Urban Symbology in Syro-Anatolian Cities

Osborne¹

2014

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Few subjects have excited the imagination of archaeologists working in ancient complex societies as have monumentality and urban planning. Yet the two topics are rarely explicitly theorized in a sustained integrated investigation within a single study, despite the fact that monumental architecture is often considered a primary basis for identifying the presence of urban planning. This article makes the related methodological arguments that both phenomena benefit from a more full consideration of one another, and that the meaningful aspect of monumentality and urban symbology needs to be considered in conjunction with the formal aspect of monuments and urban layouts. These positions are then implemented in a study of the Syro-Anatolian city-state system that existed in the ancient Near East during the early first millennium bc. The capital cities of these polities were characterized by a program of monumentality that brought royalty, city walls, gates and monumental sculpture into an unmistakable constellation of associations. The consistency of this pattern of monumentality and urban form suggests that at least a degree of urban planning existed.

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Section: Form and Monument In The Citymentioning

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Settlement Planning and Urban Symbology in Syro-Anatolian Cities

Osborne¹

2014

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“…The site has long been a focus of excavation and study, starting with large-scale excavations conducted by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago between 1935 and 1938 [ 52 , 53 ]. More recently, it has been the focus of work by the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) based at the University of Toronto, which began with pedestrian and geomagnetic survey between 1999–2002 [ 54 ], further geomagnetic survey in 2003 ( http://sites.utoronto.ca/tap/assets/2003geomagneticsurvey_en.pdf ), followed by excavations and study from 2004 onwards [ 45 – 51 , 55 , 56 ]. The earlier excavations demonstrated that the site was occupied during significant portions of the 3 rd millennium BCE, from at least the EB III [ 52 ].…”

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“…Following the conquest of Kunulua–the ancient name in this period for Tell Tayinat–by the Assyrian ruler Tiglath-pileser III in 738 BCE, Tayinat became the capital of the Assyrian province of Kinalia [ 58 , 64 , 65 , 101 ]. The available textual evidence suggests that in the intervening period, the larger political structures of the Late Bronze Age had vanished and in their place was a collection of relatively small territorial states [ 45 , 46 , 51 , 55 , 100 – 103 ]. The trajectories and chronologies of these profound changes and of the emergence of these new socio-political formations remains largely unclear.…”

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Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP

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There has been considerable focus on the main, expansionary, and inter-regionally linked or ‘globalising’ periods in Old World pre- and proto-history, with a focus on identifying, analyzing and dating collapse at the close of these pivotal periods. The end of the Early Bronze Age in the late third millennium BCE and a subsequent ‘intermediate’ or transitional period before the Middle Bronze Age (~2200–1900 BCE), and the end of the Late Bronze Age in the late second millennium BCE and the ensuing period of transformation during the Early Iron Age (~1200–900 BCE), are key examples. Among other issues, climate change is regularly invoked as a cause or factor in both cases. Recent considerations of “collapse” have emphasized the unpredictability and variability of responses during such periods of reorganization and transformation. Yet, a gap in scholarly attention remains in documenting the responses observed at important sites during these ‘transformative’ periods in the Old World region. Tell Tayinat in southeastern Turkey, as a major archaeological site occupied during these two major ‘in between’ periods of transformation, offers a unique case for comparing and contrasting differing responses to change. To enable scholarly assessment of associations between the local trajectory of the site and broader regional narratives, an essential preliminary need is a secure, resolved timeframe for the site. Here we report a large set of radiocarbon data and incorporate the stratigraphic sequence using Bayesian chronological modelling to create a refined timeframe for Tell Tayinat and a secure basis for analysis of the site with respect to its broader regional context and climate history.

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“…When work resumed in 1999, surface survey confirmed that the extent of the settlement roughly corresponded to the satellite imagery, and that on the basis of diagnostic ceramics (Batiuk et al 2005), the entire lower town dated to the early first millennium BC (Iron Age II/III). Excavations conducted by the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) since 2004 have uncovered impressive monumental remains from the Early Bronze Age and Iron Age II/III, as well as domestic architecture from the Iron Age I period, but the project did not move beyond the upper mound (Harrison 2009; Welton et al 2011; Harrison & Osborne 2012).…”

Section: Ancient Kunulua and The Tayinat Lower Town Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%