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
Burney was born in 1930 and educated at
Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...
and
King's College, University of Cambridge.
[Burney, Charles A. & David Marshall Lang. (2001) ''The peoples of the hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus''. London: Phoenix Press. ]
Career
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.
[ He is particularly known for his identification and sketch surveying of numerous Urartian sites during field expeditions made to the ]Lake Van
Lake Van ( tr, Van Gölü; hy, Վանա լիճ, translit=Vana lič̣; ku, Gola Wanê) is the largest lake in Turkey. It lies in the far east of Turkey, in the provinces of Van and Bitlis in the Armenian highlands. It is a saline soda lake ...
region in the mid 1950s and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz
Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...
, Iran from 1960 to 1962. Yanik Tepe is a multi‐period site northwest of Lake Urmia
Lake Urmia;
az, اۇرمۇ گؤلۆ, script=Arab, italic=no, Urmu gölü;
ku, گۆلائوو رمیەیێ, Gola Ûrmiyeyê;
hy, Ուրմիա լիճ, Urmia lich;
arc, ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is ...
with nine phases, including some of the earliest settlements in the region.Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran.
Oxford Index. Retrieved 27 September 2015. A collection of studies in his honour, ''A View from the Highlands &c.'', was published by Peeters in 2004.
[''A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney''.]
Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 27 September 2015. Burney has contributed articles to ''
Anatolian Studies'' and ''
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
''. He was senior lecturer at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
.
Selected publications
*''The peoples of the hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus''.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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History
George Weidenfeld a ...
, London, 1971. (With
David Marshall Lang
David Marshall Lang (6 May 1924 – 20 March 1991), was a Professor of Caucasian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was one of the most productive British scholars who specialized in Georgian, Armenian and an ...
) (History of Civilization)
*''From village to empire: An introduction to Near Eastern Archaeology''.
Phaidon, Oxford, 1997.
*''Historical dictionary of the Hittites''.
Scarecrow Press
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, Lanham, 2004. (Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras, no. 14.) (Republished by Scarecro Press as ''The A to Z of the Hittites'', 2010.)
References
Further reading
*
Sagona, Antonio. (Ed.) (2004) ''A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney''.
Peeters Peeters is a Dutch-language patronymic surname, equivalent to Peters. It is the most common surname in Belgium (33,275 people), and is particularly common in the province of Antwerp, but also in Flemish Brabant and Belgian Limburg. Notable people wi ...
. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, 12)
*Summers, G.D. (2013) ''Yanik Tepe, Northwestern Iran: The Early Trans-Caucasian Period. Stratigraphy and Architecture''. Peeters.
External links
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1930 births
Living people
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
British archaeologists
Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester