The Story of a Forgotten Kingdom? Survey Archaeology and the Historical Geography of Central Western Anatolia in the Second Millennium<scp>bc</scp>

Roosevelt, Christopher H.; Luke, Christina

doi:10.1017/eaa.2016.2

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“…Most of these sites are small and dispersed across the landscape with no clear relation to each other. Five clustered settlement nodes in the lowlands, however, and six fortified citadels in the uplands were observed Roosevelt 2016, 2017;Roosevelt and Luke 2017). Kaymakçı is the largest (8.6 ha) of these citadels and possibly in western Anatolia.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…(Hawkins 1998;Mac Sweeney 2010;Gander 2017). According to the Boğazköy archives, the kings of the Seha River Land continuously negotiated a buffer position between Hittite and Ahhiyawan (or Mycenaean) interests in western Anatolia (Bryce 1989(Bryce , 2012Roosevelt 2010;Roosevelt and Luke 2017). Kaymakçı is at present the best candidate for their capital.…”

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Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia

Slim¹,

Çakırlar²,

Roosevelt

2020

Journal of Field Archaeology

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This paper explores pig husbandry across the Aegean and Anatolia based on zooarchaeological data and ancient texts. The western Anatolian citadel of Kaymakçı is the departure point for discussion, as it sits in the Mycenaean-Hittite interaction zone and provides a uniquely large assemblage of pig bones. NISP, mortality, and biometric data from 38 additional sites across Greece and Anatolia allows observation of intra-and interregional variation in the role of pigs in subsistence economies, pig management, and pig size characteristics. Results show that, first, pig abundance at Kaymakçı matches Mycenaean and northern Aegean sites more closely than central, southern, and southeastern Anatolian sites; second, pig mortality data and biometry suggest multiple husbandry strategies and pig populations at Kaymakçı, but other explanations cannot yet be excluded; and, third, for the Aegean and Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age more generally, pig data suggests pluriformity, which challenges the use of "pig principles" in this region.

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Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia

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Çakırlar²,

Roosevelt

2020

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…The archaeological evidence on the LBA political and economic institutions in Manisa and neighboring areas is extremely limited. Although the network of citadels around Marmara Lake presented as the core of Seha River Land with Kaymakçı as the regional capital (Roosevelt, 2010;Roosevelt and Luke, 2017), no archaeological data or written evidence has been discovered in the exvacations to support this suggestion so far. Archaeological researches and ongoing excavation projects in the region have just started providing reliable data, acquired through advanced technology-based new methods, to reconstruct various aspects of the social landscape in the LBA.…”

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Late Bronze Age Pot Marks From Thyateira – Hastane Höyüğü

İREÇ¹,

Akdeniz

DOĞAN

2022

TÜBA-AR

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Various hypotheses have been formulated to explain the function and meaning of pre-post firing marks in the Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Known as "pot marks," these signs have been prominently associated with the administrative systems–central authorities or viewed as an indicator of asymmetric interregional economic relations. However, these interpretations are not suitable for Western Anatolia due to the limited number of pot marks found in a few settlements, the distinctive qualities of pottery tradition in the region, and the lack of institutionalized interregional economic connections. This article presents the first examples of pot marks found in Akhisar-Hastane Höyük/Central West Anatolia with preliminary observations on the Late Bronze Age pottery groups. It emphasizes the ambiguous nature of pot marks, their typological similarities, and differences among non-regional parallels and suggests that their appearances in the Western Anatolian LBA settlements should be considered as singular cases for now.

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“…This includes the use of GIS and remote sensing to integrate environmental, topographic and climatic factors, highlighting their influence on various sociopolitical dynamics and related issues of movement and defensibility. This approach also assesses survey datasets within a spatial analytical framework at scales beyond those of the individual site, following examples in Turkey (Abay 2011; Düring, Glatz 2015;Koparal et al 2017;Roosevelt, Luke 2017) and elsewhere (for example Bevan, Conolly 2013; Wilkinson et al 2016).…”

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A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey

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AbstractThis paper synthesises the data and results of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project (2016–2020) in order to address the earliest evidence for cities and states on the Konya and Karaman plains, central Turkey. A nested and integrative approach is developed that draws on a wide range of spatially extensive datasets to outline meaningful trends in settlement, water management and regional defensive systems during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The significance of the regional centre of Türkmen-Karahöyük for a reconstruction of early state polities between the 13th and eighth centuries BCE is addressed. In light of this regional analysis, it is tentatively suggested that, during the Late Bronze Age, Türkmen-Karahöyük was the location of the city of Tarḫuntašša, briefly the Hittite capital during the reign of Muwatalli II. More assuredly, based on the analysis of the newly discovered Middle Iron Age TÜRKMEN-KARAHÖYÜK 1 inscription, it is proposed that Türkmen-Karahöyük was the seat of a kingdom during the eighth century BCE that likely encompassed the Konya and Karaman plains.

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The Story of a Forgotten Kingdom? Survey Archaeology and the Historical Geography of Central Western Anatolia in the Second Millenniumbc

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia

Pigs in Sight: Late Bronze Age Pig Husbandries in the Aegean and Anatolia

Late Bronze Age Pot Marks From Thyateira – Hastane Höyüğü

A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey

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