8. Notes on the paradigm of Late Bronze Age collapse and Iron Age regeneration in the Hittite sphere of influence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Anatolia
6. 1. Interpreting the Late Bronze Age – Iron Age transition in central Anatolia, and the aftermath of the Hittite Empire 11
7. 2. Hydrogeomorphological records of climate changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Bor Plain (central Anatolia) 39
8. 3. Farming the land of Hatti: Emergence and collapse of the Late Bronze Age agricultural landscape of central Anatolia 85
9. 4. Observing change, measuring time: Documenting the Late Bronze Age – Iron Age sequence at Gordion 117
10. 5. Interweaving the threads: Changes and continuity in the textile production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) at the turn of the First millennium BCE 153
11. 6. Memory of the empire? Aspects of continuity and innovation in the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms 183
12. 7.The gods in Luwian religious formulas: Second and First millennia BCE 195
13. 8. Notes on the paradigm of Late Bronze Age collapse and Iron Age regeneration in the Hittite sphere of influence 205
14. Part 2: Assyria
15. 9. Assyria in turmoil between territorial loss and the emergence of new powers (1200–900 BCE) 221
16. 10. Changing gods at Qasr Shemamok: Local cults and the Assyrian Empire at the beginning of the Iron Age 251
17. 11. How “Assyrian” was Assyrian religion? The intercultural dynamics of Assyrian state rituals during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages 277
18. 12. Portrait of an ancient borderland: Settlement patterns and mobility in the region of Koi Sanjaq/Koya (Erbil, Iraq) 301
19. 13. Changing powers and material culture: The case of Qasr Shemamok 325
20. 14. Monument and motif in transition: The Neo-Assyrian rock reliefs at Maltai and Khinis 361
21. 15. Collapse, or not? How the Neo-Assyrians saw the Dark Ages 391
22. 16. On the transmission of knowledge in cuneiform: The role of religious professionals and scholars during the so-called “Dark Age” (1200–900 BCE) 405
23. Part 3: The Levant and Beyond
24. 17. Who are the Aramaeans? A selective re-examination of the cuneiform evidence for the earliest Aramaeans 411
25. 18. Interculturality and linguistic legacy in the Syro-Anatolian polities at the turn of the second millennium BCE 443
26. 19. The cult of the storm god in the Syro-Anatolian region: Regional continuity and local innovation in figurative representations between the Late Bronze and Iron Ages 457
27. 20. After Emar: The disappearance of cities in the Iron Age Middle Euphrates 481
28. 21. Between the Barada and the Wadi Zarqa: Local scenarios for a global crisis 501
29. 22. Identity politics in a buffer zone: A sociopolitical view from the Iron Age IIA Hula Valley 521
30. 23. Farther horizons: The Late Bronze Age to Iron Age transition beyond the southern Levant 555
31. 24. The diffusion of the consonantal alphabet as a bellwether of systemic change in Levantine graphic and intellectual history during the Bronze–Iron transition (1200–850 BCE)? 591
32. Index 599