Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber

Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber

Connectivity and Refinement on Citadels

Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13) - Christoph Bachhuber

Christoph Bachhuber [+-]
University of Oxford
Christoph Bachhuber is Associate Faculty Member in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. He received his doctorate from St. John’s College, University of Oxford in 2008, and has since held research and teaching positions at the British Institute at Ankara, the University of Oxford, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

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Chapter 7 begins with a reassessment of the significance of trade, with an ultimate concern that the over-prioritization of evidence for ‘trade’ in the literature has distorted the significance of relevant objects and assemblages. The motivations to trade have been hardly considered. The discussion engages an actor-based approach by examining the benefits and the risks of an increasingly disproportionate investment in long-distance exchange networks. Chapter 7 places particular emphasis on relationships between the inhabitants of citadels that were mediated by gift-giving. This was one aspect of a ‘network strategy’ between exclusionary social elites, whose elevated and potentially vulnerable status required maintaining social and political relationships beyond a local and mundane sphere of socio-economic interaction.

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Bachhuber, Christoph . Connectivity and Refinement on Citadels. Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 150-169 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781845536480. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24594. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24594. Jan 2016

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