Early Bronze Age Development in the Keban Reservoir, East-Central Turkey

1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Whallon, ◽  
Sonmez Kantman
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Turkey

scholarly journals The Early Bronze Age figurine from Hasanoğlan, central Turkey: new archaeometrical insights

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Thomas Zimmermann ◽  
Latif Özen
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Central Turkey

AbstractThe following article discusses the archaeometrical dimension of a well-known Early Bronze Age metal figurine from Hasanoğlan, Turkey, on permanent display in the Anatolian Civilisations Museum in Ankara. The transfer of the object to a new display case allowed for an examination with a portable x-ray fluorescence (P-XRF) device in order to reveal the chemical composition of the statuette and its attached ornaments. The figurine was confirmed to be made of silver. However, it is alloyed with a small but still substantial amount of copper. The applications are basically made of gold, but with a suspected substantial (up to 23%) amount of silver involved. The final section of the article is dedicated to a critical comparison with recently published figurines from Alaca Höyük, together with an archaeological and chronological reappraisal of this unique piece of art.

Muş in the Early Bronze Age

1997 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell S. Rothman ◽  
Gülriz Kozbe
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Marginal Zone ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Large Area ◽  
East Central ◽  
Eastern Turkey ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Great Culture ◽  
Near Future

In 1991 a crew of American, Canadian, and Turkish researchers began a new and comprehensive survey in the Muş Province of Eastern Turkey. The goal of the survey was to study the evolution of settlement and landuse in a marginal zone at the intersection of four great culture areas of the Middle East: Central Anatolia, Western Iran, the Transcaucasus, and Mesopotamia.This area of Eastern Turkey had been visited previously by I. K. Kökten in 1940s (1947) and Charles Burney in 1950s (1958). Given the large area these surveyors covered and their limited means of transportation, and given the newly excavated material coming from north of the great Taurus mountain massif and from Van (e.g., Sagona 1994, Sagona et al 1992, Çilingiroğlu 1987, 1988), a more comprehensive effort appeared warranted. The first season was six weeks in duration. During that time we re-visited 17 of the sites found by Kökten and Burney, and located 11 new sites. A second season was launched in 1993 with the aim of covering areas not surveyed previously (see Figure 1), mostly in the northern foothills and higher elevations near Hamurpet Lake. Unfortunately, conditions did not permit us to do a second season, nor is a season in the very near future likely. We, therefore, will be publishing the results we have already arrived at, aware that our sample is not complete.

Grave-goods, contexts and interpretation: towards regional narratives of Early Bronze Age Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil C.A. Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
East Central ◽  
North East ◽  
The Rich

This paper proposes that a contextual approach is required to make the most of the rich and diverse evidence for Early Bronze Age funerary practices in Scotland. It reviews the spatial patterning of the principal funerary traditions and identifies significant regional differences in their popularity by region. The chronological relationship between Beaker and Food Vessel burials is then reviewed in the light of new radiocarbon dates. Both distributional and chronological factors then contribute to a refined, regional and contextual approach to Beaker typology. The paper concludes by bringing these various strands together within the geographical and historical context of North-East and East-Central Scotland, in order to provide two regional ‘narratives’ of social organisation and identity.

An arena for cultural contact: Paphlagonia (north-central Turkey) through prehistory

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
North Central ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Central Turkey

AbstractThe results from five seasons of extensive and intensive survey in north-central Turkey, Project Paphlagonia, are here considered in relation to the prehistory of the region and the broader geographical scene. While the evidence remains limited and patchy it is possible to discern some clear patterns through these long time-periods, which in some respects match those of other regions of Turkey and beyond. They include: a strong Middle Palaeolithic presence; no detectable Upper Palaeolithic or Epi-Palaeolithic sites; an apparent absence of Neolithic settlement; a Chalcolithic settlement pattern that appears to be related to exploitation of raw materials of the region, and; a massive increase in settlement through the centuries of the Early Bronze Age, with evidence for fortification, cemeteries and strong connections to regions well beyond north-central Turkey.

The Biconvex Seals of Alişar Höyük

1993 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 163-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Gorny
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Central Turkey ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Archaeological excavations were conducted at Alişar Höyük in central Turkey from 1927 to 1932 by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The six years of investigation uncovered evidence that indicated the mound had been occupied intermittently from at least the Early Bronze Age through the modern Turkish period. The premature cessation of excavations at the site, however, left many issues unresolved, a situation that has bedeviled Anatolian specialists up to the present day.Foremost among the problems left unsettled by the Oriental Institute excavations was the question of whether a Late Bronze II settlement (1400–1200 B.C.) had existed at the site, an issue that was raised by the discovery at Alişar of cuneiform tablets written in the Old Assyrian script that referred to a town called Amkuwa, known also from Hittite texts as Ankuwa. On the basis of these references, scholars were quick to associate Amkuwa/Ankuwa with Alişar. The problem with this equation is that, on the one hand, a Hittite text dating to the reign of Hittite king Ḫattušili III makes it clear that Ankuwa was occupied in the LB II.

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