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This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments, and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural, and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history, and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.
mr Harman 
ah is Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Egyptology, and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University. He currently directs the Yalburt Yaylas 
Archaeological Landscape Project, a Brown Universitybased regional survey in west-central Turkey since 2010. In the past, he has worked on archaeological projects in Turkey and Greece, including Gordion, Ayanis, Kerkenes Da 
, and Isthmia. His articles have been published in journals such as Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology , Archaeological Dialogues , and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research .
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AA
Archologischer Anzeiger
AAASLes annales achologiques arabes syriennes
AfOArchiv fr Orientforschung
AJAAmerican Journal of Archaeology
AnaAraAnadolu Ara t rmalar
Anatolian Studies
AWAntike Welt
BaMBaghdader Mitteilungen
BASORBulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCSMSBulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies
BiblArchBiblical Archaeologist
BSMSBulletin of the Society for Mesopotamian Studies
CADChicago Assyrian Dictionary
CAHCambridge Ancient History
CAJCambridge Archaeological Journal
DaMDamaszener Mitteilungen
EpigAnatEpigraphica Anatolica
IstMittIstanbuler Mitteilungen
JAEJournal of Architectural Education
JANESJournal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society
JAOSJournal of the American Oriental Society
JCSJournal of Cuneiform Studies
JESHOJournal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
JFAJournal of Field Archaeology
JMAJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology
JNESJournal of Near Eastern Studies
JSAHJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians
MDOGMitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft
OEANEOxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
PAPSProceedings of the American Philosophical Association
RARevue dAssyriologie et dArchologie Orientale
RHARevue Hittite et Asianique
RlAReallexikon der Assyriologie
RIMAThe Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods
SAAState Archives of Assyria
SAABState Archives of Assyria Bulletin
SMEAStudi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici
TADTrk Arkeoloji Dergisi
TAVOTbinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients
Tba-ArTba-Ar: Trkiye Bilimler Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi
WAWorld Archaeology
WODie Welt des Orients
ZAZeitschrift fr Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archologie
Ankara, the city where I grew up, was refounded as the modern capital of the newly born Turkish Republic on October 13, 1923. Founders of the state in Turkey were keen on distancing themselves from Istanbul, the aged capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. They intended to open up a new urban sphere, an ideologically and socially fresh ground for enacting their modernist utopias for the generation of an urban culture fully endowed with European modernity. The architecture of this newly constructed capital was characterized as architecture of revolution, and adopted the technologies, styles, and visual culture of the Modern Movement in Europe (Bozdo an ). Constructing Ankara was perhaps the most concrete manifestation of the new political order and the ideology of the new republic that explicitly distanced itself from the contaminated recent past. Ankara's ceremonial spaces were designed for and as spectacles of this modernist state.
I also grew up within a nationalist education system in which we were taught that Ankara rose from a tiny and dusty Anatolian town to a modern capital. It would be much later in graduate school that I would learn with astonishment that in the sixteenth century Ankara was probably the largest city in Central Anatolia and the center of a prosperous network of trade. Such significance of Ankara as a central place was also the case most probably during the Phrygian and Early Roman periods. Looking from the long-term perspective then, the choice of Ankara as the new capital of modern Turkey was clearly not a random choice but a historically informed decision. It was partly dictated by the potential of the place and its history of being central in networks of trade and political organization of the Central Anatolian landscape.
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