The new chronology of Iron Age Gordion

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The work The new chronology of Iron Age Gordion represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The new chronology of Iron Age Gordion

Statement of responsibility

edited by C. Brian Rose and Gareth Darbyshire ; [contributions by] Keith DeVries [and others]

Contributor

• Rose, Charles Brian
• Darbyshire, G., (Gareth)
• DeVries, Keith

Subject

• Turkey -- Gordion (Extinct city)
• Antiquities
• Chronologies
• Electronic books
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey | Gordion (Extinct city)
• Gordion (Extinct city) -- Antiquities
• Gordion (Extinct city) -- History
• Gordion (Extinct city) -- History -- Chronology
• History
• Iron age
• Iron age -- Turkey | Gordion (Extinct city)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology
• Turkey
• Turkey -- Antiquities

Genre

• Chronologies
• Chronology
• Electronic books
• History

Language

eng

Summary

The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion argues that the history and archaeology of the site of Gordion, in central Turkey, have been misunderstood since the beginning of its excavation in the 1950s. The first excavation director, Rodney Young, found evidence for substantial destruction during the first decade of fieldwork; this was interpreted as proof that Gordion had been destroyed ca. 700 B.C. by the Kimmerians, a group of invaders from the Caucusus/Black Sea region, as attested in several ancient literary sources. During the last decade, however, renewed research on the archaeological evidence, within, above, and below the destruction level indicated that the catastrophe that destroyed much of Gordion occurred 100 years earlier, in 800 B.C., and was the result of a fire that quickly got out of control rather than a foreign invasion. This discovery requires a reassessment of Anatolian history during the entire first millennium B.C. and has serious implications for our understanding of the surrounding regions, such as Assyria, Syria, Greece, and Urartu, among others. The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion is the product of a multidisciplinary research program, with dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating working hand in hand with textual and artifact analysis, each of which is treated in a separate chapter in this volume. All of these categories of evidence point to the same conclusion and demonstrate that we need to look at Gordion, and much of the ancient Near East, in a completely new way. University Museum Monograph, 133

Member of

• University Museum monograph, Gordion special studies, v. 6
• Museum monographs (University of Pennsylvania. University Museum), 133
• University Museum monograph, Gordion special studies, 6
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

939/.26

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS156.G6

LC item number

N49 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

• Gordion special studies
• Museum monograph

Series volume

• 6
• 133