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SUMMARY:“Replacing Empires: The Archaeology of Political Transformation and Spat
ial Dynamics in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia”
DESCRIPTION:\nThis talk examines the landscape transformations of northe
rn Mesopotamia following the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at the
end of the seventh century BCE. Traditionally\, the fall of Nineveh has
been interpreted as a moment of abrupt rupture and collapse. However\, m
aterial evidence increasingly points to a more nuanced trajectory of reo
rganization and adaptation. Rather than witnessing a simple narrative of
decline and later recovery\, the region experienced a dynamic process o
f settlement reconfiguration and landscape management that culminated in
the emergence of new structures by the time of the Seleucids.\n\nBy cou
pling legacy data from southern Mesopotamia with new evidence from the K
urdistan Region of Iraq—particularly survey data from the Erbil Plain Ar
chaeological Survey (EPAS) and excavation results from Gird-i Matrab—thi
s paper rethinks the late Iron Age transformation of Mesopotamia. The in
tegration of datasets from different parts of the region allows for a mo
re holistic understanding of long-term patterns of habitation and land u
se. I argue that the political shifts from the Assyrian to the Seleucid
periods did not erase local systems\; instead\, they reshaped them\, pro
ducing a transformed but resilient settlement fabric\, and one that will
endure – through further adaptation – into the early first millennium C
E.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/replacing-empire
s-the-archaeology-of-political-transformation-and-spatial-dynamics-in-fi
rst-millennium-bce-mesopotamia/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This talk exami
nes the landscape transformations of northern Mesopotamia following the
collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at the end of the seventh century BC
E. Traditionally, the fall of Nineveh has been interpreted as a moment o
f abrupt rupture and collapse. However, material evidence increasingly p
oints to a more nuanced trajectory of reorganization and adaptation. Rat
her than witnessing a simple narrative of decline and later recovery, th
e region experienced a dynamic process of settlement reconfiguration and
landscape management that culminated in the emergence of new structures
by the time of the Seleucids.
By coupling legacy data from southe
rn Mesopotamia with new evidence from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq—parti
cularly survey data from the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) an
d excavation results from Gird-i Matrab—this paper rethinks the late Iro
n Age transformation of Mesopotamia. The integration of datasets from di
fferent parts of the region allows for a more holistic understanding of
long-term patterns of habitation and land use. I argue that the politica
l shifts from the Assyrian to the Seleucid periods did not erase local s
ystems; instead, they reshaped them, producing a transformed but resilie
nt settlement fabric, and one that will endure – through further adaptat
ion – into the early first millennium CE.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/replacing-empires-the-archae
ology-of-political-transformation-and-spatial-dynamics-in-first-millenni
um-bce-mesopotamia/
LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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