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People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with the...

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments, and initiating public festivals....

Yeni kentlerin yaratilmasi, Yakindogu kulturlerinin siyasi anlatilarinda ve mitlerinde ideolojik bir proje ya da ilahi bir mudahale olarak dusunulur ve kent mekaninin toplumsal uretimi genellikle maskelenir. omur Harmansah, bu kitapta, kent mekanlarinin toplumsal bellek ve kimligi sekillendirdigini, bu mekan kurma pratiginin siyasi edim ve devlet gosterisi alanlari oldugunu iddia ediyor. Gec demir caginda (Mo 1200-850 c.) Asur ve Suriye-Hitit hukumdarlarinin; kentlerin insasi, sulama kanallari yapimi, anit dikme ve halk festivalleri duzenleme pratikleri etrafinda gelisen resmi soylemini...