Periodic Reporting for period 1 - COMPUS (Civic community and public space in the ancient Near East. The case of Hittite Anatolia at the end of the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th centuries BCE).)

This project studies public space, that is, streets and squares of the preclassical Near Eastern cities as a material correlate of urban habits and civic communities.Civic community is understood here as any set of individuals with comparable status bound together by a...