Book contents
- Ancient Gordion
- Case Studies in Early Societies
- Ancient Gordion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Inventing Identity
- 3 Contextualizing the Ceramic Assemblage
- 4 Identifying Gordion’s Groups
- 5 The Late Bronze Age Community at Gordion
- 6 Reconstituting Community in the Early Iron Age
- 7 New Identities, New Communities
- 8 Enacting Power
- 9 Identities in Flux
- 10 Conclusion
- Appendix Eski Çağ’da Gordion:
- References
- Index
2 - Inventing Identity
Group Formation over the Longue Durée
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2022
Book contents
- Ancient Gordion
- Case Studies in Early Societies
- Ancient Gordion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Inventing Identity
- 3 Contextualizing the Ceramic Assemblage
- 4 Identifying Gordion’s Groups
- 5 The Late Bronze Age Community at Gordion
- 6 Reconstituting Community in the Early Iron Age
- 7 New Identities, New Communities
- 8 Enacting Power
- 9 Identities in Flux
- 10 Conclusion
- Appendix Eski Çağ’da Gordion:
- References
- Index
Summary
For over a millennium (1400–330 BCE), the inhabitants of Gordion repeatedly created novel social and political identities. The formation of the Iron Age Phrygian polity produced some of the most striking of these in the aftermath of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) Hittite collapse. Subsequently, identities were reshaped through Lydian, then Persian entanglements. Under each of these political regimes, local communities experimented with new and distinctive patterns of political and social formation under regime-specific economic strategies.
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- Ancient Gordion , pp. 12 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022