Charles A. Burney
Charles Allen Burney (born 1930) is a British archaeologist known for his discovery of Urartian sites in Turkey in the 1950s and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran from 1960 to 1962.
Early life
[edit]Burney was born in 1930 and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.[1]
Career
[edit]Burney was a scholar and fellow of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara from 1954–56 when he carried out archaeological investigations in Turkey and later in Iran.[1] He is particularly known for his identification and sketch surveying of numerous Urartian sites during field expeditions made to the Lake Van region in the mid 1950s[2] and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran from 1960 to 1962. Yanik Tepe is a multi-period site northwest of Lake Urmia with nine phases, including some of the earliest settlements in the region.[3][4] A collection of studies in his honour, A View from the Highlands &c., was published by Peeters in 2004.[5] Burney has contributed articles to Anatolian Studies and Iran. He was senior lecturer at the University of Manchester.
Selected publications
[edit]- The peoples of the hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1971. (With David Marshall Lang) (History of Civilization)
- From village to empire: An introduction to Near Eastern Archaeology. Phaidon, Oxford, 1997. ISBN 0714817309
- Historical dictionary of the Hittites. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2004. ISBN 0810849364 (Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras, no. 14.) (Republished by Scarecro Press as The A to Z of the Hittites, 2010.)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Burney, Charles A. & David Marshall Lang. (2001) The peoples of the hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 1842122525
- ^ Charles Burney, The Kingdom of Urartu (Van), p144, in Ancient Anatolia, 1998.
- ^ Yanik Tepe, Northwestern Iran The Early Trans-Caucasian Period. Stratigraphy and Architecture. Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran. Oxford Index. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney. Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
Further reading
[edit]- Sagona, Antonio. (Ed.) (2004) A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney. Peeters. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, 12) ISBN 978-90-429-1352-3
- Summers, G.D. (2013) Yanik Tepe, Northwestern Iran: The Early Trans-Caucasian Period. Stratigraphy and Architecture. Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-2713-1
External links
[edit]- "Uamh An Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave)". high-pasture-cave.org. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
