Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber
The Agrarian Foundation of Citadel Elites
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.
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Chapter 6 examines how local farming productivity of citadels was administered and then converted into social capital, either as desirable things like textiles to display or exchange, or desirable things to consume during socially integrative events. The latter provided opportunities for the inhabitants of citadels to invest farming surplus into events that celebrated their hospitality, or their munificence. It is in such a context of ‘commensal politics’ that a specific repertoire of wheel-made pottery achieved its symbolic salience across Early Bronze Age Anatolia.