The “Artisan's House” of Hasanlu Tepe, Iran

Danti, Michael D.

doi:10.1080/05786967.2011.11834428

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“…as assumed by some authors (see bibliography in Marcucci 2012). In support of this second hypothesis, we can specify that if only one ring comparable to those produced in Oman has been found in Ruwar, the circular and hexagonal discs with doubled-side perforations find closer comparisons in the Iranian area (site of Hasanlu, Danti, Cifarelli 2015, andTepe Yahya, Durante 1979).…”

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Between land and sea. The exploitation of marine shells from the Neolithic to the Iron age in Iran: the site of Ruwar (northwest of Iran)

Manca,

Mashkour,

Ghasimi

2023

paleo

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The relationship between humans and the marine environment has played a pivotal role in the development of modern societies. The exploitation of marine resources for food and for the collection of raw materials has been an integral part of the development of human communities near coastal areas throughout the world. The circulation of raw materials, such as shells, has allowed the connections between different groups dating from the Pleistocene to be identified. These artefacts are markers tracing the circulation "roads" that resulted in the spread of knowledge and goods between coastal and inland communities. Here we focus in particular on marine shell artefacts used for the production of ornamental objects in Iran from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The ultimate aim is to synthesise our understanding of the production of these objects and to establish the technological characterisation by studying the Iron Age series from the Ruwar site. This site, which is very distant from the sea, provides new information on the circulation of marine resources in the remote mountainous region of western Iran. The ornamental objects here are composed of shells from the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, demonstrating that geographical distance did not necessarily prevent contact with neighbouring groups. The shells are an exception testament to either long-distance interactions or, more likely, to extensive networks of indirect trade, with repeated exchanges over short distances, during the Iron Age.

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Between land and sea. The exploitation of marine shells from the Neolithic to the Iron age in Iran: the site of Ruwar (northwest of Iran)

Manca,

Mashkour,

Ghasimi

2023

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“…8 The fraught cultural encounter between Hasanlu and Urartu is colonialist in the broadest sense of word, operating within what Chris Gosden calls a ‘(partially) shared cultural milieu.’ In the early first millennium bc , Hasanlu and the emergent state of Urartu shared cultural attributes, and may not have viewed one another as entirely alien ‘Others.’ With their historical connections to the South Caucasus during the course of Period IVb, the residents of Hasanlu would have been alert to the coalescing of the Urartian kingdom in the highlands, and its development into a power that ended Assyrian raids into their neighbourhood. By the late ninth century bc , archaeological and historical evidence indicates that numerous sites near Hasanlu were under Urartian control (Danti 2011, 14; Dyson & Muscarella 1989, 17; Kroll 2010, 21–2; 2013, 185). Throughout the course of Period IVb at Hasanlu (1050–800 bc ), well in advance of historical manifestations of the emergence of the Urartian state, there is archaeological evidence at Hasanlu for an awareness of an impending external threat.…”

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Copper-alloy Belts at Hasanlu, Iran: A Case Study in Hybridization and Heteroglossia in Material Culture

Castelluccia

Dan²

2018

CAJ

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The pitfalls of studying material outcomes of cultural contact as ‘hybrids’ have been well mapped, from essentialism to the echoes of eugenics. In archaeological research, attention to ‘hybrid’ products of cultural contact through assiduous tracing of ‘foreign’ elements to their points of origin has often yielded dubious claims regarding the nature of the interaction. For objects excavated in the Period IVb (1050–800 bc) level at Hasanlu, this approach has led to assertions of ‘Assyrianization’, proclaiming the site the example par excellence of the response to Assyrian cultural hegemony in the periphery. Through exploration of armoured sheet-metal belts found at Hasanlu, an artefact type introduced from the South Caucasus region and then produced locally, this paper considers the interpretive utility of the concept of ‘hybridization’—the transformative processes by which disparate visual elements, materials and ideas about the world react to and perturb each in a particular environment. We argue that through these processes, relocated exogenous objects and their endogenous counterparts communicate using multiple, even divergent, voices. This very multivocality, or heteroglossia, is instrumental in forging new social relationships and meanings.

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The Hasanlu (Iran) Gold Bowl in context: all that glitters…

Danti

2014

Antiquity

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The discovery of a crushed golden bowl in the remains of the Iron Age citadel of Hasanlu in 1958 attracted considerable media attention at the time. The circumstances of its loss have long remained unclear, but were clearly associated with the violent destruction of the site in c. 800 BC. Detailed review of the find context and the skeletons found nearby now suggests that the bowl was being looted during the sack of the citadel by Urartian soldiers from an upper room where weapons, armour and fine metal vessels were stored. The enemy soldiers carrying off the Gold Bowl died in the attempt when the upper floors of the building collapsed, plunging them to their deaths.

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The “Artisan's House” of Hasanlu Tepe, Iran

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Between land and sea. The exploitation of marine shells from the Neolithic to the Iron age in Iran: the site of Ruwar (northwest of Iran)

Between land and sea. The exploitation of marine shells from the Neolithic to the Iron age in Iran: the site of Ruwar (northwest of Iran)

Copper-alloy Belts at Hasanlu, Iran: A Case Study in Hybridization and Heteroglossia in Material Culture

The Hasanlu (Iran) Gold Bowl in context: all that glitters…

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