Life in the Truck Lane: Urban Development in Western Rough Cilicia

Rauh, Nicholas K.; Townsend, Rhys F.; Hoff, Michael C.; Dillon, Matthew; Doyle, Martin W.; Ward, C.; Rothaus, Richard M.; Caner, Hülya; Akkemik, Ünal; Wandsnider, LuAnn; Ozaner, F. Sancar; Dore, Christopher D.

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“…While Rauh (2003; demonstrates an active interest in Cilician piracy and acknowledges its important role in Cilician history, the scale and scope of the RCSP prevented intensive research into a single period. Nevertheless, Rauh's (2009: 273) theories about the origins of urbanisation in Cilicia are pivotal to re-considering the role of pirates within an economic system. During his survey of Rough Cilicia, Rauh discovered that there was large increase in imported Hellenistic fine-wares, starting between 150 BC and 100 BC (Rauh et al, 2009: 272).…”

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Moving in Silence and Violence: Some Thoughts on the Archaeology of Piracy

McKernan-Dawson¹

2020

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From Thucydides' Archaeologia to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, literary tales of swashbuckling pirates have long captured the imagination of the public. Despite this, attempts to produce an archaeology of piracy have largely been unsuccessful. This has led historians (and some archaeologists) to dismiss piracy as a phenomena that cannot be understood using archaeological methods, only historical ones. Yet, the last 10 years have seen an unprecedented spike in archaeological publications in piracy, notable examples including Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Maritime Perspectives (Amirel & Muller, 2014) and X Marks the Spot: An Archaeology of Piracy (Skowronek & Ewan, 2007). So how has piracy transformed from a thema non grata in archaeology to one of the fastest developing subjects in maritime archaeology? Encompassing a series of periods, ranging from Ancient Cilicia to modern day Puntland, this paper will look at how changes in the social and academic perceptions of piracy have altered how we can perceive piracy from an archaeological perspective. Topics covered will include theoretical developments and social changes which have altered the perception of piracy. This paper will go on to review how these ideas have contributed to the creation of an archaeology of piracy characterised by seasonality, high quality goods in low socio-economic regions and a form of third party backing which allows piracy to function as a sub-group of organised crime.

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Moving in Silence and Violence: Some Thoughts on the Archaeology of Piracy

McKernan-Dawson¹

2020

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“…During the Hellenistic period, Rough Cilicia served as a place of refuge for organized communities of pirates until their defeat by the Roman statesman and military leader Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in 67-66 B.C. It was administered by the client kings Archelaus I and II of Cappadocia and Antiochus IV of Commagene for Rome, eventually becoming a Roman province during the reign of the Roman emperor Vespasian (A.D. 69-79) (Rauh et al 2009). Table 1 summarizes the scalar differences seen in urban centres of southwestern and southern Anatolia for the Hellenistic period.…”

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“…The warp and weft of urban life in the Greek cities of south-western Anatolia was provided by city institutions, the temple and ritual cycle, family, and also cultic and social associations, especially in larger cities with multiple co-residing kin groups (Fisher 1988;Kloppenborg 1996;Millar 1993). Our knowledge of this fabric in the case of southern Anatolia is impoverished: we can see that population centres are fortified, that there is limited consumption of contemporary ceramics and that inhabitants are burying individuals with items circulating in the Mediterranean, but evidence for Greek civic institutions in the form of public architecture is lacking (Rauh et al 2009;Rauh, Dillon and Rothaus 2013). Textual sources variously refer to Cilician pirates based along this Attached to place coast and moving between small, highly fortified bases where slaves crafted weapons and sails, and built fast ships (Rauh et al 2000).…”

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Performing towns. Steps towards an understanding of medieval urban communities as social practice

Christophersen¹

2015

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Urban archaeology in Scandinavia has long been dominated by a processual understanding of medieval urban development. The author proposes that the concept of urbanity in the sense of ‘urban living’ should replace the processual and functionalist-oriented concept of ‘urbanization’, and that instead focus should be directed towards social processes, practices and materiality. He perceives the emergence of urbanity in the Middle Ages in the light of the formation of specific urban patterns of practice that can be analysed with the aid of theoretical tools from recent social-practice theory. Against this background, the potential of recent social-practice theory is examined as a possible analytical tool in an urban archaeological approach to medieval urban communities. Through concepts such as interaction, event, leakage and creativity, the medieval urban landscape can be reformulated as a dynamic social space in which diverse everyday routines were intertwined in patterns, bundles and complexes.

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“…For the finds from the underwater survey, seeRauh et al 2009, 274.New old stones at Antiochia in Rough Cilicia…”

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