Nairi Lands : The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. a Reassessment of the Material Culture and the Socio-Economic Landscape

Guarducci, Guido

Oxbow Books（2019/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781789252781
• DDC分類 939

Full Description

This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. This broad area is known from the Assyrian texts as 'Nairi lands'. The second part of the study, furnishes a reassessment of pottery production characteristics and theories, as well as of the socio-economic structure and issues, tied to the sedentary and mobile local communities of the Nairi lands.

The study brings into focus the characteristics, the extension and the distribution of Grooved pottery, along with other pottery typologies, by providing an accompanying online catalogue with detailed descriptions and high-resolution images of the pots and sherds obtained from public and private institutions in Turkey and Armenia. Moreover, the socio-political organisation and subsistence economy issues are addressed in order to advance a possible reconstruction of the social structure of the Nairi lands communities. Particular attention is devoted to the pastoral nomad component and the role played within the Nairi phenomenon. The study includes a very large corpus of text images and high-resolution color images of the pottery of the area under examination, gathered by the author in order to offer a reliable tool and compendium.

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Part I. Introduction

1. Research introduction

1.1 The Nairi lands. Questions and issues

1.2 Objectives of the study

1.3 Approaches, methodologies and resources

1.4 Structure of the study

Part II. Theoretical Framework

2. Identity, ethnicity and culture

2.1 Identity

2.2 Ethnicity

2.3 Culture

2.4 Significance and use in the study

3. The concept of community

3.1 Approaches and aspects

Part III. Geographical and Historical Framework

4. An environmental survey of the Nairi lands

4.1 Core: Eastern Anatolia (Turkey)

4.2 Periphery: South Caucasus

4.3 Outer Periphery: North-western Iran

5. The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age historical framework

5.1 Collapse and regeneration of the Near Eastern socio-economic landscape

6. The Anatolian geopolitical landscape according to the Assyrian texts

6.1 The Late Bronze Age

6.2 The Early Iron Age

Summary

Part IV. The Nairi Lands Core: The Archaeological Evidence from Eastern Anatolia

7. Archaeological evidence

7.1 North EAR

7.2 South-east EAR

7.3 South-west EAR

7.4 East SEAR

7.5 West SEAR

Summary

Part V. The Nairi Lands Periphery: The Archaeological Evidence from the South Caucasus

8. Archaeological evidence

8.1 Archaeological investigations in Armenia and the South Caucasus

8.2 Armenia

8.3 Nakichevan and Azerbaijan

8.4 Georgia

Summary

Part VI. The Nairi Lands Outer Periphery: The Archaeological Evidence from North-Western Iran and Secondary Connections

9. Archaeological evidence

9.1 Archaeological investigations and issues in North-western Iran

9.2 North-western Iran

9.3 Secondary connections outside the Nairi lands

Summary

Part VII. Reassessment of the Nairi Lands Material Culture and Socio-Economic Landscape

10. Nairi Ware: The Nairi lands pottery productions

10.1 Issues and theories

10.2 Techno-morphological analysis

10.3 Reassessment

11. The Nairi lands socio-economic landscape: Between mobile and sedentary lifestyle

11.1 Merging ethnicities and social groups

11.2 The Settlement Area

11.3 The Encampment Area

11.4 The Fort Area

11.5 Convergent dimorphism

Part VIII. Final Considerations

12. The Nairi lands communities' identity

12.1 Commonalities and distinguishing features

12.2 Identity as cultural affinity and community

12.3 The Nairi Ware social and symbolic function

12.4 Conclusions and future directions

Appendix: Pottery sherds analyses

Guido Guarducci, Vincenzo Palleschi, Marco Lezzerini, Stefano Pagnotta, Gianni Gallello, Emanuela Grifoni, Stefano Legnaioli, Giulia Lorenzetti and Giusi Sorrentino

Bibliography

Online catalogue

Nairi Lands contexts and architecture

Anatolia

South Caucasus

Iran

Secondary connections

Nairi Ware pottery

Anatolia

South Caucasus

Iran

Secondary connections