Ups and downs at Kanesh: Chronology, History and Society in the Old Assyrian Period
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Ups and downs at Kanesh : Chronology, History and Society in the Old Assyrian Period. / Barjamovic, Gojko Johansen; Hertel, Thomas Klitgaard; Larsen, Mogens Trolle.
Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2012. 161 s. (Old Assyrian Archives, Studies). (PIHANS, Bind 120).Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Ups and downs at Kanesh
T2 - Chronology, History and Society in the Old Assyrian Period
AU - Barjamovic, Gojko Johansen
AU - Hertel, Thomas Klitgaard
AU - Larsen, Mogens Trolle
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - UPS AND DOWNS AT KANESH proposes a revised sequence of Old Assyrian eponyms and establishes a relative and an absolute chronology by way of linking textual evidence, dendrochronology and archaeological stratigraphy. This chronological framework is used to trace broader historical and social developments of political and territorial centralisation in Anatolia, as well as to offer new insights in the social and commercial history of the Old Assyrian trade. A number of economic and social transformations in Assyrian society over the course of two centuries are identified by way of a statistical and prosopographical analysis. It is shown how the economic system that drove the well-known overland trade of the early Colony Period collapsed in a dramatic fashion after only thirty years (c. 1895-1865 BC), and that a series of changes in administrative organisation were created in immediate response. A primary vehicle in financing the trade – the joint-stock enterprise – was abandoned, and exchange came to be organised by way of venture trade. A distinct community of hybrid Assyrian-Anatolian households grew more prominent as mixed families came to be engaged mainly in local Anatolian trade and agriculture. In turn, a small and wealthy Assyrian elite functioned as permanently settled foreign trading agents, and a distinctive group of itinerant merchants continued to engage in the caravan trade and connect the Anatolian colonies to the mother city of Assur.
AB - UPS AND DOWNS AT KANESH proposes a revised sequence of Old Assyrian eponyms and establishes a relative and an absolute chronology by way of linking textual evidence, dendrochronology and archaeological stratigraphy. This chronological framework is used to trace broader historical and social developments of political and territorial centralisation in Anatolia, as well as to offer new insights in the social and commercial history of the Old Assyrian trade. A number of economic and social transformations in Assyrian society over the course of two centuries are identified by way of a statistical and prosopographical analysis. It is shown how the economic system that drove the well-known overland trade of the early Colony Period collapsed in a dramatic fashion after only thirty years (c. 1895-1865 BC), and that a series of changes in administrative organisation were created in immediate response. A primary vehicle in financing the trade – the joint-stock enterprise – was abandoned, and exchange came to be organised by way of venture trade. A distinct community of hybrid Assyrian-Anatolian households grew more prominent as mixed families came to be engaged mainly in local Anatolian trade and agriculture. In turn, a small and wealthy Assyrian elite functioned as permanently settled foreign trading agents, and a distinctive group of itinerant merchants continued to engage in the caravan trade and connect the Anatolian colonies to the mother city of Assur.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Kanesh
KW - Extinct city
M3 - Book
SN - 978-90-6258-331-7
T3 - Old Assyrian Archives, Studies
BT - Ups and downs at Kanesh
PB - Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten
CY - Leiden
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