Place, Memory, and Healing

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 book develops an archaeology of place as a theory of cultural landscapes and as an engaged methodology of fieldwork in order to excavate the genealogies of places.

Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Preface 1. Archaeology of Place 2. Plato's Spring, Tudhaliya's Pool: Water, Place and Storytelling in Hittite Landscapes 3. The Cultural Life of Caves 4. Rock Reliefs Are Never Finished 5. Places of healing and miracles: the afterlife of Anatolian rock monuments 6. Conclusions: Stories of Place Bibliography