Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber
Four Proto-histories
Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber
Christoph Bachhuber [+]
University of Oxford
Christoph Bachhuber is Associate Faculty Member in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. He received his doctorate from St. John’s College, University of Oxford in 2008, and has since held research and teaching positions at the British Institute at Ankara, the University of Oxford, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
Description
Chapter 1 introduces the geographical and chronological scope of the study, and examines previous research on the topic through a discussion of four Early Bronze Age ‘proto-histories’ (of Troy, Alacahöyük, Kültepe, and Indo-Europeans). The discussion is critical of the historicist approaches that have shaped current understanding of the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia, and introduces a political-economic and anthropological framework to arrive at a synthetic and more holistic understanding of this region and time period.