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Following an initial explosion of archaeological work in the region in the early part of the twentieth century at sites like Karatepe, Malatya, Karkamish, and Zincirli, Near Eastern archaeologists largely passed over the plentiful Iron Age sites of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria in favor of...
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Published in | Near Eastern archaeology Vol. 72; no. 4; p. 0_2 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
01.12.2009
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Summary: | Following an initial explosion of archaeological work in the region in the early part of the twentieth century at sites like Karatepe, Malatya, Karkamish, and Zincirli, Near Eastern archaeologists largely passed over the plentiful Iron Age sites of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria in favor of more intellectually "lucrative" sites belonging to better-documented periods and peoples - the Assyrians, Israelites, and Hittites. |
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ISSN: | 1094-2076 2325-5404 |