The Archaeology of Midas and the Phrygians : : Recent Work At Gordion / / ed. by Lisa Kealhofer.

This book is a succinct and readable account of recent research at Gordion, the ancient capital of Phrygia, long one of the key sites for understanding Iron Age Anatolia. The regional survey at Gordion has involved a range of interdisciplinary studies-archaeological, environmental, and ethnoarchaeol...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1. Recent Work at Gordion
  • I. EXCAVATIONS, HISTORY, AND DATING AT GORDION
  • 2. Gordion
  • 3. Old Problems and New Solutions
  • 4. Greek Pottery and Gordion Chronology
  • 5 .Reconstructing the Roman-period Town at Gordion
  • II. INTERPRETING THE FINDS FROM GORDION
  • 6. Textile Production at Gordion and the Phrygian Economy
  • 7. A Decorated Roof at Gordion
  • 8. Glass Vessels from Gordion
  • 9. A Preliminary Report on the Human Skeletal Material from Gordion's Lower Town Area
  • 10 .The Local Potter's Craft at Phrygian Gordion
  • III. GORDION IN ITS REGIONAL CONTEXT
  • 11. Settlement and Land Use
  • 12. Ceramic Compositional Analysis and the Phrygian Sanctuary at Dümrek
  • 13. Physical Geography, Land Use, and Human Impact at Gordion
  • 14. Ethnographic Lessons for Past Agro-Pastoral Systems in the Sakarya-Porsuk Valleys
  • IV. CONSERVING GORDION AND ITS ARTIFACTS
  • 15. Support and Conserve
  • 16. Recent Conservation Research
  • 17. Architectural Conservation at Gordion
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Plates