Ancient Landscapes of Anatolia in the Bronze Age
PNRR M4C2: PRIN 2022
Acronym: ALandA
Description
ALandA aims at reconstructing how ancient landscapes of Central Anatolia changed from the 18th to the 13th cent. BC, a five-century period spanning from the end of the political territorial fragmentation of Anatolian principalities to the rise and consolidation of the Hittite empire. The project will investigate developments in material culture, settlement patterns, exploitation of natural resources and connectivity on a regional and interregional scale. The focus will be on the Kayseri and Yozgat provinces, where the relevant 2nd mill. BC key-sites of Kültepe-Kaneš and Uşaklı Höyük, currently investigated by the project’s team members, are located. Moreover, written sources from late Old Assyrian and Hittite texts will be integrated into the analysis to provide further valuable evidence for the interpretation of the regional historical geography.
Project information
- Funded by: European Union NextGenerationEU and Italian Ministry of University and Research
- Call: PNRR: Missione 4 – Componente 2 “Dalla ricerca all’impresa” – Investimento 1.1 – Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
- Start date: 1 October 2023
- End date: 30 September 2025
- ISPC Scientific coordinator: Silvia Alaura
- Project Leader: Università degli Studi di Milano Statale
- Partners: Università degli Studi di Pisa
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CONFERENCE
A New Look at an Ancient City. An Outline of the Development of Ḫattuša during the 2nd Millennium BC
Andreas Schachner, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Istanbul
Andreas Schachner è referente per l’Archeologia del Vicino Oriente e la Preistoria Anatolica presso la sezione di Istanbul dell’Istituto Archeologico Germanico (DAI – Deutsches Archäologisches Institut). Dirige il progetto di scavo e restauro nella capitale ittita Ḫattuša-Boğazköy (Çorum, Turchia) dal 2006 ed insegna Archeologia del Vicino Oriente presso la Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg (Germania).
venerdì 21 marzo 2025 | ore 11:00
Roma, CNR headquarters, Library, Room A
CONFERENCE
Il regno di Tarḫuntašša ‒ Stato e territorialità nell’Anatolia della Tarda Età del Bronzo
Relatore Michele Massa
Michele Massa è assistant professor presso il Dipartimento di Archeologia della Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye) e co-direttore del Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project. Le sue competenze riguardano l’archeologia del paesaggio, le metodologie per l’applicazione di indagini di superficie, e l’archeologia digitale, con un focus sulla preistoria, la protostoria e la storia antica delle società del Mediterraneo orientale.
23 gennaio 2025 | ore 11:00
Roma, CNR headquarters, Library, Room A
CONFERENCE
Maledetti confini
Teoria e prassi nella definizione dei confini delle realtà politiche dell’Asia occidentale preclassica
Lecturer Prof. Stefano de Martino
Stefano de Martino is full professor of Anatolistics at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin and scientific director of the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l'Asia (CRAST). He is one of the most renowned experts in the field of the study of Hittite civilization and the history of preclassical Anatolia.
March 22, 2024 | h 15:00
Roma, CNR headquarters, Library, Room A
