Envisioning landscapes of warfare: A multi-regional analysis of Early Iron fortress-states and Biainili-Urartu
[Thesis]
Tiffany Celena Earley-Spadoni
Rowe, William T.; Harrower, Michael J.
The Johns Hopkins University
2015
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Committee members: Harrower, Michael J.; Schwartz, Glenn M.; Zaitchik, Benjamin F.; Zimansky, Paul E.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-47504-3
Ph.D.
Near Eastern Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
2015
The present dissertation-an interdisciplinary study incorporating archaeological data, textual sources, art-historical evidence, and ethnography-investigates state development in the highland, non-urban empire of Urartu and the Early Iron fortress-states that preceded it during the early first millennium BCE. GIS studies take social agents into account, employing Social Network Analysis and human-scale analysis techniques. Vision acts as an organizing principle for the present study and provides a window into the priorities and decision making of the people who created the ancient states in question.
Archaeology; Geotechnology; Ancient history
Social sciences;Applied sciences;Archaeology;Armenia;Early Iron Age;GIS;Intervisibility;Iran;Social network analysis;Urartu;Viewshed;Warfare