Hittite Landscape and Geography
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 22220
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004341746
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The book was conceived by MW and LZU as a holistic and systematic overview of Hittite Geography from the perspectives of the separate disciplines of archaeology and philology, giving space for difference as well as room for integration and thus leading to new results and questions. MW translated two chapters (3-Turkish, 16-German), and organised and supervised the production of maps by his student, ZH. MW co-wrote five of the chapters, two archaeological, two philological, and the synthetic introduction. In the two philological chapters he wrote up his own research and combined it with that of the co-authors to form a new whole perspective on the philological data for the two areas concerned, one of which (15-Central East) has never been dealt with as a unit and showed both its centrality and simultaneously its endangered peripherality to the Hittite state. The other (21-Kizzuwatna) was territorially redefined as against the current orthodoxy to show its centrality to passages to and from northern Syria. For two archaeological chapters (5-Central East, 9-Central West) he discussed and wrote up results from surveys and excavations as an active member of the teams that conducted them, facilitating communication and exchange on drafts between Japanese and Turkish teams while also working at their excavation sites: Kaman-Kalehöyük, Büklükale, Eskiyapar, Ortaköy. The synthesis of the data produced a number of new perspectives on urbanisation and landscape use during the period of Empire. Other sites run by contributors were visited for discussions on their chapters. The synthetic introduction, drafted by MW, commented by LZU, lays out the state of the field and assesses methodological approaches to the interplay of Empire and landscape in the Hittite period. 42 pages of this work were directly drafted by MW, the whole of it expresses his conception and planning.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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