Excavations at Karataş-Semayük in Lycia, 1967

Mellink, Machteld J.; Ángel, José

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“…The analyses carried out indicate that the small hamlet of Demircihüyük (0.3ha; ca 100-130 inhabitants) was involved in a complex network of exchanges at the regional and supra-regional levels, to an extent not seen at any other contemporary site of comparable size. Even though most of the evidence comes from its funerary contexts, comparison with other excavated cemeteries like those of Hacılartepe, Bakla Tepe, Iasos, Karataş, Kaklık Mevkii, Harmanören-Göndürle, Küçükhöyük, Kusura and Yortan clearly demonstrates the richness and variety of Demircihüyük's metal assemblages (Lamb 1937: 54-64;Mellink 1964;1965;1967;1969;Mellink, Angel 1968;1970;Alpers-Bordaz 1978;Kamil 1982;Pecorella 1984;Gürkan, Seeher 1991;Topbaş et al 1998;Roodenberg 2008;Şahoğlu 2016). Arguably, this is due to its location on a major trunk route connecting the north-central plateau with the Marmara Sea and the Troad (Korfmann 1983: 1-2;Massa 2014: 74;cf.…”

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Patterns of metal procurement, manufacture and exchange in Early Bronze Age northwestern Anatolia: Demircihüyük and beyond

2017

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This paper adds a new interpretive layer to the already extremely well-investigated site of Demircihüyük, a small Early Bronze Age settlement at the northwestern fringes of the central Anatolian plateau. It presents a reassessment of the evidence for prehistoric mining in the region, as well as a new programme of chemical composition analysis integrated with an object functional and technological typology of the site's metal assemblages. The results reveal complex manufacturing techniques (such as bivalve mould casting, plating and lost wax) and the co-occurrence of several alloying types, including the earliest tin bronzes in the region. Object typology further indicates that the Demircihüyük community was at the intersection of two distinct metallurgical networks: one centred on the western Anatolian highlands, the other spanning the northern part of the central plateau. Additionally, several strands of evidence suggest that the beginning of interregional exchanges, linking central Anatolia to northern Levantine and Mesopotamian societies, may have started at an earlier date than the commonly assumed ca 3000–2800 BC.

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Patterns of metal procurement, manufacture and exchange in Early Bronze Age northwestern Anatolia: Demircihüyük and beyond

2017

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“…6 ' Besides these, three Troy-type figurines are known from Heraion on Samos 62 and others are reported from sites in SW Asia Minor: eight from Aphrodisias, 63 one from Beycesultan, 6 * and one from Karatas-Semayiik in Lycia. 65 To the Troy type have also been assigned by Renfrew 66 three elongated variants reported from Crete, two from Lebena, Yerokambos T II, 67 and another from the Agios Onouphrios deposit; 68 Branigan, on the other hand, suggests that these be classed in what he calls 'the Lebena type' 69 and reports another such figurine from a seemingly LM context at Zakros. 7°T he Cycladic figurines of the Troy type known until quite recently, being all of unknown provenance as well as flat and thin in profile, were dated on typological grounds or on the basis of their Trojan parallels to EC I 7 ' or the transition from EC I to EC II.…”

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The Early Bronze Age stone figurines from Akrotiri on Thera and their significance for the Early Cycladic settlement

Sotirakopoulou

1998

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The recent excavations at Akrotiri on Thera have brought to light 21 new EC figurines which, taken together with those already known or completely unknown, raise the number of EC figurines from the site of 37. The Akrotiri figurines comprise a wide range of types, both schematic and naturalistic, covering almost the whole of the known EC sculptural repertoire and also introduce types which are entirely new. Thus they constitute a significant body of evidence, for the following reasons: first, because they show unmistakably the importance of the settlement at Akrotiri already in the third millennium BC; second, because, by contrast with most EC figurines, they come from a systematic excavation; and third, because, including types and showing features up until now rarely seen or even completely unknown in the Cyclades and the Aegean, they enrich our knowledge of EC figurative sculpture and offer us the possibility of drawing a number of inferences.

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“…The succeeding level 11 has some North Syrian imported ware of post-Akkadian/Ur III date (Spanos 1977b:94-95). A locally produced post-Akkadian "Syrian bottle" found at Troy III (Mellink 1965:116, Spanos 1977b:97) is considered as further evidence for the proposed synchronism. (c) The vessels depicted in the Akkadian reliefs of Enheduanna and Manistusu are well known forms in the second settlement of Troy (Spanos 1977a;1977b:101-104).…”

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Troy and Anatolian Early Bronze Age Chronology

Yakar

1979

Anatol. Stud.

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The use of an absolute chronological framework based on tree-ring calibrated C-14 dates has been recently proposed by D. F. Easton in his attempt “… to come to grips with the crucial and difficult dating of Troy” (Easton 1976:146). Easton points out that unlike Tarsus, whose relative dating vis-a-vis Mesopotamia and Egypt is stable, Troy's relative chronology is not agreed upon and this “impinges not only on Anatolia, but on the Aegean and Bulgaria as well”.In establishing his chronology Easton uses, in addition to “the normal comparative methods”, two sources: (a) radiocarbon dates which, after calibration, especially when using Suess's calibration curve, affect both relative and absolute dating, (b) his reassessed stratigraphy of the Bronze Age levels at Troy (Easton 1976; 1977).Easton in his new chronological structure has not taken into consideration certain facts and opinions surrounding tree-ring calibrated radiocarbon dating. In view of the persisting controversy regarding this scientific dating method, it is premature, at least as far as Anatolia is concerned, to replace the relative dates derived from historical synchronisms with calibrated “absolute” C-14 dates.

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Excavations at Karataş-Semayük in Lycia, 1967

Cited by 17 publications

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Patterns of metal procurement, manufacture and exchange in Early Bronze Age northwestern Anatolia: Demircihüyük and beyond

Patterns of metal procurement, manufacture and exchange in Early Bronze Age northwestern Anatolia: Demircihüyük and beyond

The Early Bronze Age stone figurines from Akrotiri on Thera and their significance for the Early Cycladic settlement

Troy and Anatolian Early Bronze Age Chronology

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