Contextualizing Kuruçay Höyük: Assessing the Unexplored Late Chalcolithic Landscape Near the Beginning of Early Social Complexity in SW Turkey

Vandam, Ralf; Mušič, Branko; Medarić, Igor

doi:10.1080/00934690.2018.1558904

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“…1; Schwall 2018: 277-84). A similar picture can be observed in other regions, through surveys conducted in the Troad (Bieg et al 2009;Blum et al 2011), as well as in the Lake District (De Cupere et al 2017;Vandam et al 2019). Therefore, the newly discovered site of Kababurun supports the evolving picture of a dynamic period with well-connected communities.…”

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Kababurun: investigations of an eastern Aegean village in the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age transition

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The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) 1 are dynamic prehistoric eras, encapsulating crucial political, social and economic developments in western Anatolia and the adjacent regions. Although recent fieldwork and synthesis on this transition in western Turkey provide a general framework for this important transitional period, we still lack a holistic understanding of settlement types, subsistence patterns and socio-economic interaction zones. Discovery of the coastal site of Kababurun during surveys on the Karaburun Peninsula enhances understanding of the Late Chalcolithic–EBA 1 transition by providing data on settlement characteristics, material technologies and subsistence strategies. Kababurun is currently the only absolutely dated prehistoric site in the Karaburun Peninsula, offering a reliable chronological basis for comparisons in the region and beyond. In this article, we first introduce and then contextualise the Kababurun data within the eastern Aegean and western Anatolian research problems, then discuss how that data might contribute to a more refined understanding of Late Chalcolithic to EBA 1 communities. In particular, we argue that the site of Kababurun represents a form of community that is vitally important but poorly understood for this period: a small-scale rural settlement, connected to local networks but without a specialised function.

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