Emerging Economic Complexity in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during Earlier Third Millennium BC

Rahmstorf, Lorenz

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“…Eastern ideas must have been carried to the region by merchants and artisans. Rahmstorf (, 257) described this transfer and the appropriation process as ‘… the outcome of the implementation of important innovations, ‘escaped technologies’ from the East during the earlier third millennium BC which became adapted but changed to local preferences’, which could also be supported by the use of potter's wheel in Kandilkırı.…”

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“…A sealing from Dinar‐Bozhüyük (Mellaart , 216, fig. 466; Rahmstorf , 233) and another from Mersin‐Yumuktepe (Palumbi , fig. 89) have impressions with the same decoration.…”

Section: Interpretations Of Seals With An Angle‐filled Cross Motifmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A significant number of the sealings at Lerna were uncovered in the debris of the House of Tiles, the administrative building in the settlement (Heath , 82; Wiencke , 500). Apart from these mainland Greek sites with a large quantity of sealings, some of the largest sites have yielded very few seals and seal impressions (Pullen , table ; Rahmstorf , fig. .3), such as the urban centres in western Anatolia mentioned above.…”

Section: Early Bronze Age Seals: An Attempt At a Recording System?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“….3), such as the urban centres in western Anatolia mentioned above. Rahmstorf (, 234), in his discussion of the appearance of seal impressions in the Aegean and the transfer of this system from the east to the west, stated that it is an important indicator that the examples from Demircihöyük or Semayük are dated to the early phases of the EBA and that Anatolia played a part in this transfer (at this point, one should note that the Demircihöyük sealing has an impression of a cylinder seal; thus, it should not be considered to be a local adaptation) (Massa , 138, 142, 144).…”

Section: Early Bronze Age Seals: An Attempt At a Recording System?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Lead Seal from the Laodikeia‐Kandilkiri Excavations and an Overall Assessment of Seal Use in South‐Western Anatolia During the Early Bronze Age

Oğuzhanoğlu

2019

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary Kandilkırı, one of the two prehistoric settlements of the ancient city of Laodikeia on the Lykos River (Laodicea ad Lycum), was settled during the Early Bronze Age (EBA) 2 and 3 periods. The present study attempts to provide an overall assessment of questions pertaining to seals and sealing practices in south‐western Anatolia, raised due to the discovery of a lead stamp seal at Kandilkırı. In EBA 2, metal seals appeared alongside the pre‐existing clay ones, and by the end of the EBA 3, negatives of metal seals seem to have been added to the ‘trinket mould’ repertoire of artisans, who mainly cast lead and were active along the trade routes. The custom of seal usage in the Near East seems to have been partially adopted in south‐west Anatolia in the EBA, then passed to mainland Greece from this region. It is proposed that the south‐western corner of Anatolia might have played a more active role in the transport of Near Eastern ideas as a result of its closer proximity to the Mediterranean coast, and that at least a part of this connection might have been established via sea routes.

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confidence: 99%

“…A sealing from Dinar‐Bozhüyük (Mellaart , 216, fig. 466; Rahmstorf , 233) and another from Mersin‐Yumuktepe (Palumbi , fig. 89) have impressions with the same decoration.…”

Section: Interpretations Of Seals With An Angle‐filled Cross Motifmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Early Bronze Age Seals: An Attempt At a Recording System?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Early Bronze Age Seals: An Attempt At a Recording System?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Lead Seal from the Laodikeia‐Kandilkiri Excavations and an Overall Assessment of Seal Use in South‐Western Anatolia During the Early Bronze Age

Oğuzhanoğlu

2019

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…The archaeology of the Aegean and Anatolian EBA, covering chronologically the third millennium BC (cf. Rahmstorf with references), has been dominated largely by efforts to seek out the roots of societal complexity which characterize the second millennium palace societies and early states, building on or reacting to Renfrew's influential work (). Fundamental to such research has been the recognition of transformations in the scale and frequency of movement of goods and people.…”

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Between East and West: Amorgian Pottery in Early Bronze Age Heraion (Samos)

Menelaou

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2020

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary The island of Samos occupies a key position between the central Aegean and western Anatolia during the third millennium BC. A recent study of the substantial pottery assemblages from the pivotal site of Heraion has defined a rich stratigraphy covering the entire Early Bronze Age (EBA). Currently the only known EBA site on Samos, Heraion has provided the opportunity to undertake a holistic ceramic study with the aim of defining and characterizing local pottery production and, by extension, determining for the first time a secure provenance of suspected imported vessels, through the application of an integrated typological/morphological, macroscopic and microscopic (ceramic petrography) analytical methodology. This diachronic ceramic study, alongside a comparative fabric study of pottery of known origin from a number of contemporary sites, shows clear evidence for the exchange/importation of specific vessel shapes and, in the case of the collared jars, presumably their contents. This enables the reconstruction of patterns of interaction during the later phases of EB II, when there was a particular acceleration in the movement of goods. The present paper draws on a distinctive ceramic class (blue and red schist/phyllite fabrics/wares) and vessel types (transport jars with incised/slashed handles and beaked jugs with a two‐stage neck profile) particular to the EB II late period and discusses them in relation to already published or analysed data from selected Cycladic and Anatolian sites.

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Uneven and Combined: Product Exchange in the Mediterranean (3rd to 2nd Millennium BCE)

Jung

2021

Frontiers in Economic History

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Emerging Economic Complexity in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during Earlier Third Millennium BC

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A Lead Seal from the Laodikeia‐Kandilkiri Excavations and an Overall Assessment of Seal Use in South‐Western Anatolia During the Early Bronze Age

A Lead Seal from the Laodikeia‐Kandilkiri Excavations and an Overall Assessment of Seal Use in South‐Western Anatolia During the Early Bronze Age

Between East and West: Amorgian Pottery in Early Bronze Age Heraion (Samos)

Uneven and Combined: Product Exchange in the Mediterranean (3rd to 2nd Millennium BCE)

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