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

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

Metahistory and the Bronze Age in Anatolia

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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The book concludes in Chapter 9 with a critique of the two dominant approaches to social change: diffusionary historicism, which has had the greater influence on the Bronze Age in Anatolia, and universalist evolution, which has never secured a foothold. The interpretive framework of this study tilts towards the latter. This is because related considerations of political economy can offer more explanatory power and comprehensiveness than historicist approaches. But an evolutionary model fails to explain the largest trends in Bronze Age Anatolia, and, like historicism, it obscures the ultimate interest of this book: the social worlds of villages and citadels.

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Bachhuber, Christoph . Metahistory and the Bronze Age in Anatolia. Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia - (Volume 13). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 183-189 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781845536480. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=26510. Date accessed: 09 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.26510. Jan 2016

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