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This conference volume comes from a series of talks given during the 2012 American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting in Chicago, IL. The individual authors represent a variety of archaeological sub-disciplines and have come together to present the most recent findings in their various approaches to the archaeology of Kültepe. As the title clearly states, the scholars pursue an interdisciplinary and integrative treatment of archaeological material and textual records. In this regard, the volume is an excellent success. There is much cross-referencing among the individual papers, and the results, while arising from very different approaches, perform well together in demonstrating that many previous assumptions about ancient Kanesh need to be rethought. The introduction makes the argument that Kültepe is an excellent case study for the investigation of early complex societies and how they arose in environments of high local and regional interaction. In the Kültepe case study, these interactions are driven by trade. As of this publication, sixty-six seasons of excavation have

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Author

Josh Cannon

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)