The Neolithic Pottery of Ulucak in Aegean Turkey. Organization of production, interregional comparisons and relative chronology
Çiler Çilingiroğlu
City: Oxford
Year: 2012
Publisher: Archaeopress
Series: BAR International Series 2426
Description: Paperback, xii & 316 p., illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, including 68 plates and appendices, 29,7 x 21 cm
Abstract
The core of this study encompasses the presentation of the pottery analysis from Levels IV-V at Ulucak Mound in Izmir, Turkey, in order to reveal the site’s cultural-historical and chronological position within the greater Neolithic context of Turkey and the Aegean. The research makes both comparisons on ceramic fabrics and vessel morphology, as well as in some cases other archaeological material, enabling a discussion on the possible contemporaneity of the sites in different regions. By comparing and contrasting the contemporary sites from these regions it is possible to construct relative chronologies and assess Ulucak’s relative chronological position by combining ceramic data with absolute dates. Such analysis allows further insights into the cultural-historical position of Ulucak in the greater context of Anatolia and the Aegean. Inclusion of areas such as the Bor-Melendiz Plain, the Konya Plain, Thrace, northeast Bulgaria, the Struma Valley, the Macedonian Plain, and Thessaly are especially important as pottery sequences from these regions have never before been compared to central-western Anatolian sites in such detail.
Contents
Contents [i]
Foreword [v]
List of Tables [vii]
List of Figures [vii]
List of Abbreviations [xi]
Chapter I. General Research Outline [1]
Chapter II. History of Neolithic Research in West Turkey [8]
Chapter III. Introducing Ulucak Hӧyük [11]
Chapter IV. Ulucak IV and V Pottery [24]
Chapter V. Pottery Technology, Function, and Organization of Ceramic Production [64]
Chapter VI. Intra-regional and Inter-regional Comparisons of Ulucak Pottery [78]
Final Remarks and Future Prospects [186]
References [190]
Appendix 1: List of radiocarbon dates from Ulucak
Appendix 2: Tables
Appendix 3: Catalogue of the illustrated ceramics
Plates
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