A Tale of Three Assemblages

Author(s): Bradley Parker

Year: 2015

Summary

This paper examines ceramic production in the Upper Tigris River Valley of southeastern Anatolia before and during the incorporation of this region into the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using manufacturing techniques and technologies as windows on the organization of ceramic production, this paper argues that imperial incorporation drastically altered the organization of labor, the distribution of ceramic type fossils and the relationship between producers and consumers. This paper also suggests that, at least in this case study, the distribution of imperial ceramic type fossils is a good indicator of the level of cultural porosity of the imperial frontier.

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A Tale of Three Assemblages. Bradley Parker. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395571)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
West Asia

Spatial Coverage

min long: 25.225; min lat: 15.115 ; max long: 66.709; max lat: 45.583 ;