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Of Rocks and Water
Towards an Archaeology of Place (Joukowsky Institute Publication)
by Omur Harmansah, Editor Omur Harmanah, Oxbow Books
Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxbow Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78297-671-4, ISBN: 1-78297-671-X

"People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean b ..."

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East(Reprint)
by Dr Omur Harmansah, Omur Harman Ah
Paperback, 372 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-53374-5, ISBN: 1-107-53374-0

"This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative of ..."

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
by Dr Ömür Harmanşah, Omur Harmansah, Dr Mr Harmanah
Hardcover, 372 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02794-7, ISBN: 1-107-02794-2

Place, Memory, and Healing(1st Edition)
An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments
by Omur Harmansah, Harman_Ah
Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-74488-1, ISBN: 0-415-74488-1

"Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites. Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into the living rock at watery landscapes during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, this ..."

The History of Art
A Global View: Prehistory to the Present [Hardcover] Robertson Jean; Hutton Deborah; Colburn Cynthia; Harmansah
by Eric Kjellgren, Rex Koontz, Cynthia S. Colburn, Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton, De-Nin Lee, Henry Luttikhuizen, Allison Lee Palmer, Stacey Sloboda, Ömür Harmansah, Monica Blackmun Visonà, Omur Harmansah
Hardcover, Published 2021 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-02237-5, ISBN: 0-500-02237-2

Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
by Dr Omur Harman Ah, Dr M R Harman Ah, Eomeur Harmanosah, MR Harmansah
374 Pages, Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-31449-8, ISBN: 1-107-31449-6

"This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East, bringing together architecture and cultural history."

Eski Yakindogu'da Kent, Bellek, Anit
(Turkish Edition)
by Omur Harmansah, Fugen Yavuz
Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2015 by Koc University Press
ISBN-13: 978-605-5250-70-6, ISBN: 605-5250-70-5

"Yeni kentlerin yaratilmasi, Yakindogu kulturlerinin siyasi anlatilarinda ve mitlerinde ideolojik bir proje ya da ilahi bir mudahale olarak dusunulur ve kent mekâninin toplumsal uretimi genellikle maskelenir. Omur Harmansah, bu kitapta, kent mekânlarinin toplumsal bellek ve kimligi sekillendirdigini, bu mekân kurma pratiginin siyasi edim ve devlet gosterisi alanlari oldugunu iddia ediyor. Gec demir caginda (MO 1200-850 c.) Asur ve Suriye ..."

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