Middle/Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age Cyprus: New Perspectives in Archaeological Theory and Techniques

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Charalambos Paraskeva
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Late Chalcolithic

Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau, II

1963 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 199-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Chalcolithic Period

The end of the Çatal Hüyük West culture is shrouded in mystery. Both Çatal and Kara Hüyük South were apparently deserted and never reoccupied and it is only at Can Hasan Hüyük east of Karaman that later deposits have been recognised overlying remains of the early Chalcolithic culture. Elsewhere the evidence lies buried in the cores of the numerous city mounds of the Early Bronze Age period. Late Chalcolithic remains are fairly common in the Konya Plain, but they were in nearly every case found on sites where no earlier or later remains were encountered. This might suggest a shift in the settlement pattern of the plain after the end of the Early Chalcolithic period (see map, Fig. 1).

Metals and Metallurgy

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Muhly
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Molten Copper ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Bronze Age

This article reviews the impact of metals and metallurgy on Anatolian societies, from the first emergence of metal experimentation in the Neolithic to the full-blown metallurgical societies of the Bronze Age. Evidence suggests that Late Chalcolithic metalworkers thought of tin as a metal to be used for coating the surface of a copper artifact, presumably to imitate the appearance of silver, before they thought of adding tin to molten copper to produce bronze. During the transition from Late Chalcolithic to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age, ca. 3000 BCE, the main focus of metallurgical development in Anatolia shifted from the eastern part of the country to central and western Anatolia.

scholarly journals The use of natural resources at Mentesh Tepe during the Late Chalcolithic period and the Early Bronze Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 409-424
Author(s):  
Laurence Astruc ◽  
Antoine Courcier ◽  
Bernard Gratuze ◽  
Denis Guilbeau ◽  
Moritz Jansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Chalcolithic Period

Early Lives: The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age at Çadır Höyük

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Steadman ◽  
Hackley ◽  
Selover ◽  
Yıldırım ◽  
von Baeyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Chalcolithic

Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Landscapes of Settlement and Mobility in the Middle Euphrates: A Reassessment

Levant ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony J Wilkinson ◽  
Nikolaos Galiatsatos ◽  
Dan Lawrence ◽  
Andrea Ricci ◽  
Rob Dunford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Chalcolithic

Hearth structures in the religious pattern of Early Bronze Age northeast Anatolia

2000 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turan Takaoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Widespread Distribution ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc

The archaeology of Early Bronze Age northeast Anatolia has often been characterised by the dominant presence of the so-called Karaz Ware, a black burnished ware often decorated in relief. In northeast Anatolia, this distinctive ceramic tradition is represented in the archaeological contexts of major excavated sites of the Erzurum plain: Karaz, Güzelova, Pulur, Büyüktepe, and Sos Höyük (Kosay, Turfan 1959; Kosay, Vary 1964; 1967; Sagona et al 1993; Sagona et al 1996). Nevertheless, it is not something unique to the sites of northeast Anatolia, but a widely occurring phenomenon at third millennium BC sites from Transcaucasia to Syria-Palestine under other names such as Kura-Araxes Ware, Early Transcaucasian Ware, or Khirbet Kerak Ware (Burney 1989: 45ff; Edens 1995: 53). Even though it is handmade, its quality, manufacture and distinctive relief decoration, and its widespread distribution in northeast Anatolia and surrounding regions, demonstrate that it had a cultural and economic value attached to it. The widespread use of this pottery may be explained as evidence of a movement of nomadic pastoral groups or traders who also brought their pots or potting techniques with them. Although the newcomers responsible for this phenomenon appear to be small in number, the intermixing of the older local Late Chalcolithic populations and newcomers seems to have led to local variations in this ware in different spatial and temporal contexts (Rothman, Kozbe 1997).

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