ZURICH, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On the time of the Trojan Warfare, round 1200 BCE, western Turkey was coated by a dense community of well-established settlements. This is among the predominant outcomes of a complete investigation that started twelve years in the past and was printed right this moment. A group of Swiss and Turkish archaeologists has evaluated the outcomes of 33 excavations and 30 archaeological surveys in western Turkey and, on this foundation, recognized 477 massive settlement websites that had been inhabited at the least from 2000–1000 BCE, and in some circumstances for so long as 5,000 years.
The research by Eberhard Zangger, Alper Aşınmaz, and Serdal Mutlu demonstrates {that a} tightly woven community of long-lived Bronze Age settlements exploited the pure sources in western Turkey, a area that was up to now thought-about a cultural no-man’s land. A preliminary research in 2016 had proposed the title “Luwian tradition” for the inhabitants between the well-studied Mycenaeans in southern Greece and the Hittites in central Asia Minor.
Making use of a geographic info system (GIS) and considering 30 physio-geographic components, the scientists had been capable of decide which internet sites individuals most popular for his or her settlements. A very powerful components had been proximity to ingesting water and to fertile farmland. Quick distances to potential transportation routes additionally performed a task. In distinction, ore deposits, which had been plentiful within the area, apparently had no affect on settlement patterns.
The research additionally offers arguments for the identification of the so-called Sea Peoples, a motley band of robbers who raided the coastal cities of the japanese Mediterranean after 1200 BCE. Excavations at Enkomi on Cyprus had dropped at mild as early as 1952 a doc that has now been recognized as a letter from a Cypriot admiral. The navarch, whereas on patrol close to the island of Samos within the southern Aegean, unexpectedly encountered a big fleet coming from Troy. From a protecting harbor, he despatched the letter to request reinforcements. Therefore, the hitherto mysterious Sea Peoples turn into a brief navy alliance of Western Anatolian petty states.
Supply: Eberhard Zangger, Alper Aşınmaz and Serdal Mutlu (2022): “Center and Late Bronze Age Western Asia Minor: A Standing Report.” In: The Political Geography of Western Anatolia within the Late Bronze Age, edited by Ivo Hajnal, Eberhard Zangger, and Jorrit Kelder, Archaeolingua Collection Minor 45, 39–180. Archaeolingua, Budapest. ISBN 978-615-5766-54-1.
Contact: Eberhard Zangger, Luwian Research, [email protected], Tel. +41 44 250 74 90
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