The Prehistory of Asia Minor by Bleda Dring
In this book, Bleda D ring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr. D ring traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human developments, including the domestication of animals, metallurgy, fortified towns, and long-distance trading networks. Situated at the junction between Europe and Asia, Asia Minor has often been perceived as a bridge for the movement of technologies and ideas. By contrast, this book argues that cultural developments followed a distinctive trajectory in Asia Minor from as early as 9,000 BC.
'[This book is] a significant contribution to a much broader effort in the pursuit of a better understood prehistory of Asia Minor … I have no doubt that this book regardless of the more recent publications which cover broader geographic and thematic expanses … will be inspirational to new research into the prehistoric and preliterate periods of Anatolia in the years to come' Jak Yakar, Bibliotheca Orientalis
Bleda Düring is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Leiden University. He has done extensive fieldwork in Turkey and currently directs the Cide Archaeological Project, surveying the western Turkish Black Sea region. The author of numerous articles in edited volumes and journals, such as Anatolian Studies, the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeological Dialogues, he is also the author of Constructing Communities: Clustered Neighbourhood Settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521149815 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521149819 |
| Title | The Prehistory of Asia Minor |
| Author | Bleda S Düring |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2010-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 374 |
| Prizes | Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2011 |
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