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    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 / Guido Guarducci.

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    • Title: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 / Guido Guarducci.
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    • Author/Creator:Guarducci, Guido, author.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; Haverton, PA : Oxbow Books, 2019.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Material culture--Caucasus, South.
      Material culture--Turkey, Eastern.
      Material culture--Iran.
      Bronze age--Caucasus, South.
      Bronze age--Turkey, Eastern.
      Bronze age--Iran.
      Iron age--Caucasus, South.
      Iron age--Turkey, Eastern.
      Iron age--Iran.
      Pottery, Prehistoric--Turkey, Eastern.
      Pottery, Prehistoric--Caucasus, South.
      Pottery, Prehistoric--Iran.
      Armenia--Antiquities.
      Turkey, Eastern--Antiquities.
      Caucasus, South--Antiquities.
      Assyria--Antiquities.
      Iran--Antiquities.
    • Description:xii, 252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
    • Summary:"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"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Published in 2 volumes?
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252).
    • ISBN:9781789252781 hardback
      1789252784 hardback
      9781789252798 epub
      9781789252804 mobi
      9781789252811 pdf
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
      1. Research introduction
      1.1. Nairi lands. Questions and issues
      1.2. Objectives of the study
      1.3. Approaches, methodologies and resources
      1.4. Structure of the study
      pt. 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. concept of community
      3.1. Approaches and aspects
      pt. III Geographical and Historical Framework
      4. 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. Late Bronze-Early Iron Age historical framework
      5.1. Collapse and regeneration of the Near Eastern socio-economic landscape
      6. Anatolian geopolitical landscape according to the Assyrian texts
      6.1. Late Bronze Age
      6.2. Early Iron Age
      Summary
      pt. IV 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
      pt. V 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
      pt. VI 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
      pt. 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. Nairi lands socio-economic landscape: Between mobile and sedentary lifestyle
      11.1. Merging ethnicities and social groups
      11.2. Settlement Area
      11.3. Encampment Area
      11.4. Fort Area
      11.5. Convergent dimorphism
      pt. VIII Final Considerations
      12. Nairi lands communities' identity
      12.1. Commonalities and distinguishing features
      12.2. Identity as cultural affinity and community
      12.3. Nairi Ware social and symbolic function
      12.4. Conclusions and future directions.
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