The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia

Claudia Glatz is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow.  She currently directs the Sirwan Regional Project, alongside a cultural heritage initiative combining archaeological practice with the creation of new museum spaces and educational resources in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Her previous field work focused on the Turkish Black Sea region (Cide Archaeological Project).

• 1. Empire is always in the making; 2. Placing empire; 3. Sovereign performance; 4. The pontic shatter zone; 5. Nesting faults; 6. Arresting geographies – ambiguous edges; 7. Discipline and difference; 8. Plain things; 9. Ceasing empire; 10. Concluding thoughts.

'With Making, Glatz has written a monograph that is both an exciting application and case study of the archaeology of imperialism, and a comprehensive archaeological treatment of an empire that has never adequately received one … the most significant booklength treatment of the Hittite Empire for many years to come, and has immediately emerged as essential reading for all those interested in this time and place.' James F. Osborne, Journal of Near Eastern Studies