Friday 28 February 2025, 5pm GMT / 9am PST
Online - to register please email Michele Bianconi at michele.bianconi@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Convenors: Michele Bianconi, Philomen Probert, Anthony Yates
Speaker: Lorenzo D’Alfonso (ISAW, New York University)
A horizontal view on the legacy of the Hittite empire in the Iron Age has recently resulted in the identification of Syro-Anatolian culture construct, so defined because of the participation of the two regions, northern Syria and south-central Anatolia in the making of the new construct. A diachronic understanding of this construct, on the other hand, is still ongoing. While northern Syrian city-states representing this Syro-Anatolian construct were active by the 12th or 11th century BC, and inherited Hittite symbols of power and monumentality, the trajectory of post-Hittite central Anatolia from the 12th to the mid-8th century follows quite different trajectories, with correlates in written sources, monumental art and material culture. After reviewing the microregional outcomes of central Anatolia following the fall of the empire, I will reflect on contribution of the 15 yrs of excavations and research at the site of Niğde Kınık Höyük and its vicinity to the understanding of the post-Hittite trajectory of south Cappadocia of the period 1000-730 BC.
For information, please contact Michele Bianconi (michele.bianconi@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk), Philomen Probert (philomen.probert@wolfson.ox.ac.uk), or Anthony Yates (adyates@ucla.edu).
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