id
	11894
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11894
Resource template
	Book Section
Resource class
	bibo:BookSection
Title
	Stone Worlds: Technologies of Rock Carving and Place-Making in Anatolian Landscapes
Creator
	Harmanşah, Ömür
Publisher
	Cambridge University Press
Date
	2015
Language
	eng
Abstract
	This chapter explores practices of rock carving on the Anatolian peninsula from a diachronic perspective, with special emphasis on the Late Bronze Age and Early-Middle Iron Ages. Linking together the materiality of monuments, rock-carving technologies and issues of landscape imagination, it focuses on the commemorative rock reliefs across the Anatolian landscape. The monuments of concern range from Hittite and post-Hittite commemorative rock reliefs to Urartian, Phrygian and Paphlagonian practices of carving the living rock for cultic, commemorative and funerary purposes. The chapter also critiques the specialised art historical and epigraphic approaches to rock reliefs and rock-cut structures, which portray them as stand-alone monuments and show a certain disregard for their micro-geographical context. Finally, it contributes to studies of landscape and place in Mediterranean archaeology by promoting a shift of focus from macro-scale explanations of the environment to micro-scale engagement with located practices of place-making.
Is Part Of
	The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
Spatial Coverage
	Cambridge
Cited by
	11042
Editor
	Knapp, Bernard
	van Dommelen, Peter
Isbn
	978-0-521-76688-3
Pages
	379-394
Short title
	Stone Worlds
Uri
	https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-prehistory-of-the-bronze-and-iron-age-mediterranean/stone-worlds-technologies-of-rock-carving-and-placemaking-in-anatolian-landscapes/ACECC435163958F5B0A5E6AA82C056DA
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/IW3V6D4K/item-list

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