The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire (Mcdonald Institute Monographs)

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The Assyrian empire used to be in its day the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Building at the expansion of the Middle Assyrian state in the late second millennium BC, the opening centuries of the first millennium witnessed a resurgence which led to the birth of a true empire whose limits stretched from Egypt to Iran and from Anatolia to the Persian Gulf. Whilst the Assyrian imperial capital cities have long been the focal point of archaeological exploration, it’s only in contemporary decades that the peripheral areas have been the subject of sustained research. This volume sets out to synthesise the result of this research, bringing together the outcomes of key investigations from around the empire. The provincial archaeology of the empire is presented in a new light, with studies of the archaeological imprint of Assyria in present-day Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. A variety of methodological and interpretive approaches are brought to bear at the data. Analyses of environmental zones and ecofactual datasets, material culture and architectural traditions, the permeation of literacy and the usage of para-literate systems form the platform for innovative and integrative evaluations and lead to a new appreciation for the diversity of local responses to the Assyrian expansion.

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