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- Title
A tale of three cities: urban and cultural resilience and heritage between the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the eastern Mediterranean.
- Authors
Middleton, Guy D.
- Abstract
The turbulent years around c. 1200 BC in the eastern Mediterranean are known as a period of the collapse of states and empires. Yet by zooming in on three important royal cities, Tiryns, Hattusa and Carchemish, we can question this collapse narrative whilst at the same time exploring the now popular concept of resilience, in this case urban and cultural resilience. First these ancient cities are presented as interactive and meaningful spaces in which architecture and art were used to shape people's experience of them and the world in which they lived, before their urban fabric and functions are examined in turn. It will become clear that they had radically different fates through c. 1200 BC. Some of the difficulties in applying ideas from resilience thinking and how it might or might not be useful as an approach in studying these and other examples are then discussed.
- Subjects
IRON Age; BRONZE Age; CULTURAL property; SPACE (Architecture)
- Publication
Urban History, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 4, p724
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926820000607