After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria

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Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, 1–20

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• claim Long-distance exchange recovered through new routes, actors and institutions rather than simply restoring the Late Bronze Age system.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: Long-distance exchange recovered through new routes, actors and institutions rather than simply restoring the Late Bronze Age system.

• event Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes · entire article

  Source relationship recorded for Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States.

• event Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · establishes · pp. 1–20

  Source relationship recorded for Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish.

• date assertion Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes · entire article
• date assertion Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · establishes · pp. 1–20
• claim The Hittite Great King’s central administrative system disappeared, while smaller Hittite and Luwian political traditions continued elsewhere.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: The Hittite Great King’s central administrative system disappeared, while smaller Hittite and Luwian political traditions continued elsewhere.

• claim Carchemish preserved elements of Hittite royal and political tradition after the central empire disappeared.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: Carchemish preserved elements of Hittite royal and political tradition after the central empire disappeared.

• claim Smaller states preserved and transformed Hittite-Luwian political and cultural traditions after the imperial centre disappeared.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: Smaller states preserved and transformed Hittite-Luwian political and cultural traditions after the imperial centre disappeared.

• claim Alphabetic scripts expanded and diversified as cuneiform and Linear B palace administrations disappeared or contracted in many regions.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: Alphabetic scripts expanded and diversified as cuneiform and Linear B palace administrations disappeared or contracted in many regions.

• event Expansion of Alphabetic Writing
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides context · Iron Age inscriptional traditions

  Source relationship recorded for Expansion of Alphabetic Writing.

• date assertion Expansion of Alphabetic Writing — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides context · Iron Age inscriptional traditions
• date assertion Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides context · successor-state networks
• event Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides context · successor-state networks

  Source relationship recorded for Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange.

• date assertion Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · supports · northern Syrian continuities
• event Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports · northern Syrian continuities

  Source relationship recorded for Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration.

• claim Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish is best dated in this release to 12th–11th centuries BCE.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish is best dated in this release to 12th–11th centuries BCE.

• claim Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States is best dated in this release to 12th–10th centuries BCE.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States is best dated in this release to 12th–10th centuries BCE.

• property assignment Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish — has property — Resilient Continuity
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Carchemish preserved dynastic and political traditions through the twelfth century BCE.

• property assignment Carchemish — part of tradition — Hittite Imperial System
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Carchemish preserved Hittite dynastic and political traditions after the fall of the central empire.

• property assignment Carchemish — has property — Political Survival
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Carchemish provides a major counterexample to a total disappearance of Hittite political traditions.

• property assignment Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States — belongs to period — Early Iron Age
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  These successor polities developed in the Early Iron Age from Hittite and local traditions.

• property assignment Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States — has property — Post-Crisis Recovery and Reconfiguration
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  The successor states represent reorganization and continuity after central imperial collapse.

• property assignment Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States — has property — Post-Crisis Recovery and Reconfiguration
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  Successor states reorganized political traditions after the central Hittite collapse.

• relationship Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration — enabled reorganization into — Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports causal relationship

  The end of the central empire created the political setting in which regional Hittite and local successor states emerged.

• entity Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States.

• entity Carchemish
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Carchemish.

• entity Hittite Empire
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Hittite Empire.

• entity Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Northern Levant.

• property Resilient Continuity
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Resilient Continuity.

• property Hittite Imperial System
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Hittite Imperial System.

• property Political Survival
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Political Survival.

• property Transformed Polity
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Transformed Polity.

• property Post-Crisis Recovery and Reconfiguration
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Post-Crisis Recovery and Reconfiguration.

• relationship Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States — located in — Central Anatolia
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States is located in or geographically associated with Central Anatolia.

• relationship Carchemish — predecessor tradition of — Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Carchemish transmitted Hittite dynastic and political traditions into the Syro-Anatolian successor landscape.

• relationship Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration — occurred in — Central Anatolia
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration is geographically assigned to Central Anatolia.

• relationship Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration — occurred in — Hattusa
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration is geographically assigned to Hattusa.

• relationship Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration — affected — Hittite Empire
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration directly affected Hittite Empire in this reconstruction.

• relationship Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish — occurred in — Carchemish
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish is geographically assigned to Carchemish.

• relationship Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish — occurred in — Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish is geographically assigned to Northern Levant.

• relationship Carchemish — participated in — Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Carchemish is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish.

• relationship Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States — participated in — Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Dynastic and Political Continuity at Carchemish.

• relationship Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States — occurred in — Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States is geographically assigned to Northern Levant.

• relationship Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States — occurred in — Central Anatolia
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States is geographically assigned to Central Anatolia.

• relationship Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States — participated in — Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States.

• relationship Carchemish — participated in — Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Carchemish is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Emergence of Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian Successor States.

• relationship Expansion of Alphabetic Writing — occurred in — Eastern Mediterranean
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Expansion of Alphabetic Writing is geographically assigned to Eastern Mediterranean.

• relationship Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange — occurred in — Eastern Mediterranean
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange is geographically assigned to Eastern Mediterranean.

• relationship Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange — occurred in — Po Valley
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange is geographically assigned to Po Valley.

• relationship Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks — participated in — Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange.

• relationship Phoenician City-States — participated in — Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Phoenician City-States is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange.

• relationship Frattesina — participated in — Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports relationship

  Frattesina is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Recovery and Reconfiguration of Mediterranean Maritime Exchange.

• relationship Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States — located in — Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Neo-Hittite and Syro-Anatolian States is located in or geographically associated with Northern Levant.

• relationship Carchemish — located in — Northern Levant
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Carchemish is located in or geographically associated with Northern Levant.

• relationship Hittite Empire — located in — Central Anatolia
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Hittite Empire is located in or geographically associated with Central Anatolia.

• relationship Northern Levant — part of — Eastern Mediterranean
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Northern Levant is represented as part of Eastern Mediterranean.