TY - BOOK ID - 68907848 TI - The Syro-Anatolian city-states : an Iron Age culture PY - 2021 SN - 9780199315833 0199315833 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Antiquities. KW - Iron age KW - Iron age. KW - To 1453. KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Mediterranean Region. KW - Syria KW - Syria. KW - Turkey KW - Turkey. KW - History KW - Human settlements KW - Âge du fer KW - Âge du fer UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68907848 AB - "This book presents a new model for the cluster of ancient kingdoms that clustered around the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea during the Iron age, ca. 1200-600 BCE. Rather than presenting them as ancient versions of the modern nation-state, characterized by homogenous ethnolinguistic communities like "the Aramaeans" or "the Luwians" living in neatly bounded territories, this book sees these polities as being fundamentally diverse and variable, distinguished by demographic fluidity and cultural mobility. This conclusion is reached via an examination of a host of evidentiary sources, including site plans, settlement patterns, visual arts, and historical sources. Together, these lines of evidence lead to the awareness that this time and place consists of a complex fusion of cultural traditions that is nevertheless distinctly recognizable unto itself. This book thus proposes a new term to encapsulate that diversity: the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex"-- ER -