Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2017-07-17DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000096
Albert Orozco
{"title":"The Hittite title Tuhkanti revisited: towards a precise characterisation of the office","authors":"Albert Orozco","doi":"10.1017/S0066154617000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154617000096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is nowadays commonly accepted that the Hittite title Tuhkanti refers to the heir to the throne of Hattusa. However, while there are plenty of biographical works about individuals who held the title, there is a remarkable lack of studies about the position itself. Furthermore, there has until now been no complete compilation of the attestations of the word. With the aim of revisiting the role and the identity of the officer, this article catalogues all the occurrences of the term in Hittite contexts. Secondly, it offers a partially new characterisation of the office based on consideration of all the (currently known) attestations. The final picture that emerges diverts from the regular definition of a crown prince and reveals a type of emergency office, instituted in exceptional circumstances in order to reinforce the reigning dynasty.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"109 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154617000096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47685728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2017-07-17DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000023
Çiğdem Atakuman
{"title":"Figurines of the Anatolian Early Bronze Age: the assemblage from Koçumbeli-Ankara","authors":"Çiğdem Atakuman","doi":"10.1017/S0066154617000023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154617000023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Through analysis of a figurine assemblage from the site of Koçumbeli-Ankara, this study aims to re-evaluate the origins, meanings and functions of the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC) anthropomorphic figurines of Anatolia. Conventional typological approaches to figurines are often focused on their origins and sex; however, such approaches hinder an understanding of the context of the norms of production, display and discard within which the figurines become more meaningful. Following an examination of breakage patterns and the decorative aspects of the Koçumbeli assemblage, a comparative review of figurine find contexts, raw materials and abstraction scales in Anatolia is provided, so that the social concerns underlying the use of these figurines can be explored. It is concluded that the origins of the figurines are difficult to pinpoint, due to the presence of similar items across a variety of regions of the Near East from the later Neolithic onwards. The sex of the figurines is equally ambiguous; while some human sexual features can be discerned, it is difficult to decide whether these features are ‘male’, ‘female’, both or beyond classification. Alternatively, the decoration, breakage and find contexts of the figurines suggest that the imagery was embedded in more complex perceptions of social status, death and social regeneration. The need for materialisation of these concerns in the form of the figurines could be related to the development of a new social landscape of interaction leading to political centralisation by the second millennium BC. Furthermore, the figurines were produced through a meaningful linking of particular raw materials and particular abstraction scales to particular use contexts, which seems to have shifted during the centralisation process.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"85 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154617000023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45492676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2017-07-17DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000072
A. Bogaard, D. Filipović, Andrew S. Fairbairn, Laura Green, Elizabeth Stroud, D. Fuller, M. Charles
{"title":"Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia","authors":"A. Bogaard, D. Filipović, Andrew S. Fairbairn, Laura Green, Elizabeth Stroud, D. Fuller, M. Charles","doi":"10.1017/S0066154617000072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154617000072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Intensive archaeobotanical investigations at Çatalhöyük have created a unique opportunity to explore change and continuity in plant use through the ca 1,500-year Neolithic to early Chalcolithic sequence of an early established farming community. The combination of crops and herd animals in the earliest (Aceramic) part of the sequence reflects a distinct and diverse central Anatolian ‘package’ at the end of the eighth millennium cal. BC. Here we report evidence for near continual adjustment of cropping regimes through time at Çatalhöyük, featuring recruitment of minor crops or crop contaminants to become major staples. We use panarchy theory to frame an understanding of Çatalhöyük's long-term sustainability, arguing that its resilience was a function of three key factors: its diverse initial crop spectrum, which acted as an archive for later innovations; its modular social structure, enabling small-scale experimentation and innovation in cropping at the household level; and its agglomerated social morphology, allowing successful developments to be scaled up across the wider community. This case study in long-term sustainability through flexible, changeable cropping strategies is significant not only for understanding so-called boom and bust cycles elsewhere but also for informing wider agro-ecological understanding of sustainable development in central Anatolia and beyond.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154617000072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46688528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2017-07-17DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000114
S. Mitchell
{"title":"David French 30 May 1933 to 19 March 2017","authors":"S. Mitchell","doi":"10.1017/S0066154617000114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154617000114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"iii - v"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154617000114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42111316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2017-07-17DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000047
A. Comfort
{"title":"Fortresses of the Tur Abdin and the confrontation between Rome and Persia","authors":"A. Comfort","doi":"10.1017/S0066154617000047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154617000047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although research is currently impossible on the ground, satellite photographs allow some further information to be gleaned concerning the region of the Tur Abdin, of crucial importance during the wars between the late Roman Empire and Sassanian Persia in the fourth to seventh century AD. This article examines the ancient sources and the reports of visitors to the area in the light of what is now visible to all via Google Earth and other suppliers of free satellite imagery. Apart from describing the remains of the fortresses and their role in defending an important redoubt against Persian attacks, it draws attention to the urgent necessity for proper ground surveys of what remains of the fortifications of various periods before these are completely destroyed by looting and reuse of building materials. Dams also present a substantial risk to some of the monuments discussed here.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"181 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154617000047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48038647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2017-07-17DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000011
N. Arslan
{"title":"Surface surveys in the northern Troad and the identification of Çiğlitepe as ancient Arisbe","authors":"N. Arslan","doi":"10.1017/S0066154617000011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154617000011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The region known as the Troad in western Anatolia is famed not only as the setting of Homer's Iliad but also for the Hellespont strait (modern Çanakkale Boğazı) linking the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean. In addition to large cities such as Sigeum, Abydus and Lampsacus, ancient writers also mention smaller cities located on the Hellespont. In this article, the location of the ancient city of Arisbe, presumed to have existed between Abydus and Lampsacus, is examined in the light of new archaeological data. Between 2002 and 2010, the author conducted surveys in the northern Troad. These surveys revealed an ancient settlement with archaeological material belonging to the Late Bronze Age, late Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. The location of this settlement, the archaeological data and information from ancient literary sources all indicate that this site should be identified as Arisbe.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"129 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154617000011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47382488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2016-06-29DOI: 10.1017/S0066154616000028
T. Zimmermann, Latif Özen
{"title":"The Early Bronze Age figurine from Hasanoğlan, central Turkey: new archaeometrical insights","authors":"T. Zimmermann, Latif Özen","doi":"10.1017/S0066154616000028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154616000028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following article discusses the archaeometrical dimension of a well-known Early Bronze Age metal figurine from Hasanoğlan, Turkey, on permanent display in the Anatolian Civilisations Museum in Ankara. The transfer of the object to a new display case allowed for an examination with a portable x-ray fluorescence (P-XRF) device in order to reveal the chemical composition of the statuette and its attached ornaments. The figurine was confirmed to be made of silver. However, it is alloyed with a small but still substantial amount of copper. The applications are basically made of gold, but with a suspected substantial (up to 23%) amount of silver involved. The final section of the article is dedicated to a critical comparison with recently published figurines from Alaca Höyük, together with an archaeological and chronological reappraisal of this unique piece of art. Özet Bu makale, Ankara Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesinde sergilenen Erken Bronz Çağına ait ünik eserler arasında kabul edilen Hasanoğlan Metal Figürininin bir arkeometrik çalışmasını içermektedir. Hasanoğlan heykelciğinin, müzede yeni vitrinine taşınması vesilesi ile yapılan Portatif X-Ray Flüoresans (P-XRF) Spektrometresi ölçümleri, figürin ve üzerindeki dekoratif eklentilerin kimyasal bileşimlerini açığa çıkarmıştır. Figürin, az ama safsızlık kabul edilmeyecek oranda bakır metali katılmış gümüş alaşımından yapılmıştır. Eklentiler temel olarak altın metalinden yapılmış olmakla birlikte ölçümlerde hemen altındaki gümüş metalinden de kaynaklanması olası yüksek oranda gümüş içermektedir. Makalenin son bölümü, bu eşsiz sanat eserinin son zamanlarda yayınlanmış Alacahöyük metal figürinleriyle arkeolojik ve kronolojik olarak yeniden değerlendirilmesine ayrılmıştır.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"17 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154616000028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57053044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2016-06-29DOI: 10.1017/S0066154616000107
Elizabeth A. Murphy, J. Poblome
{"title":"A late antique ceramic workshop complex: evidence for workshop organisation at Sagalassos (southwest Turkey)","authors":"Elizabeth A. Murphy, J. Poblome","doi":"10.1017/S0066154616000107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154616000107","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sites of ceramic production have been discovered throughout the area that was once the Roman Empire; as a result, it is becoming increasingly clear that this industry was, in the Roman and late antique worlds, organised in numerous ways. In consideration of the organisational diversity in ceramic production attested during the period, this article presents some of the findings from the excavations of a late antique complex of ceramic workshops at the site of Sagalassos in order to consider archaeological evidence in terms of, not only the organisation of the manufacturing process, but also structures of workshop decision-making. Several lines of archaeological evidence are outlined, and argue for a model of independent work units integrated into a larger organisational structure of decision-making, and possibly even ownership, across the complex. In addition, the motivation to invest in a multi-workshop complex during the late antique period at Sagalassos is contextualised within the wider history of local and regional economic development. Özet Bir zamanlar Roma İmparatorluğu olan bölge genelinde seramik üretim yerleşimleri tespit edilmiştir ve sonuç olarak, Roma ve geç antik dünyada bu endüstrinin çeşitli şekillerde düzenlendiği giderek daha açık hale gelmektedir. Bu dönemler için tespit edilen seramik üretimindeki çeşitlilik dikkate alınarak, bu makalede Sagalassos yerleşiminde bulunan geç antik döneme ait seramik atölyesi kompleksinde yapılan kazılarda ele geçen bazı buluntular sunulmaktadır. Bu arkeolojik kanıtlar, sadece üretim sürecinin düzenlenmesi açısından değil aynı zamanda atölye karar verme mekanizmaları bakımından da ele alınmaktadır. Pek çok arkeolojik kanıt özetlenmiş ve kompleks genelinde bağımsız iş birimlerinin daha geniş bir karar verme örgütsel yapısına dahil olması ve hatta belki mülkiyeti de kapsayan bir model öne sürülmüştür. Buna ek olarak, Sagalassos’da geç antik dönemde birden çok atölye bulunan bir komplekse yatırım yapma eğilimi, yerel ve bölgesel ekonomik gelişimin daha geniş tarihi içinde ele alınmıştır.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"185 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154616000107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57053659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anatolian StudiesPub Date : 2016-06-29DOI: 10.1017/S0066154616000016
Maxime Brami, B. Horejs, F. Ostmann
{"title":"The ground beneath their feet: building continuity at Neolithic Çukuriçi Höyük","authors":"Maxime Brami, B. Horejs, F. Ostmann","doi":"10.1017/S0066154616000016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154616000016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A Neolithic structure was rebuilt three times at Çukuriçi Höyük, on the central Anatolian Aegean coast, despite its unfavourable location on unsettled fill. We draw upon this seemingly incongruous case to make inference about the siting of buildings in Neolithic times. Through detailed cross-comparison with other sequences of vertically superimposed buildings in Anatolia and the Aegean region, we retrace the contours of a Neolithic practice aimed at maintaining occupation in one place. Over time, building continuity transformed into a strategy by some households to claim authority over a place and appropriate it for their own benefit. With regard to the location of Neolithic buildings, we conclude that choices about location dominated over practical considerations. Once a commitment to place was made, there was no turning back, even when this meant living in an unstable house that needed to be rebuilt repeatedly. Özet Anadolu Ege kıyılarının merkezinde yer alan Çukuriçi Höyük’te, oturmamış dolgu toprak üzerindeki olumsuz konumuna rağmen, Neolitik yerleşim üç kez yeniden inşa edilmiştir. Neolitik dönemde binaların konumlandırılması konusunda bir çıkarım yapmak için bu aykırı görünen örnek üzerinde durmaktayız. Anadolu ve Ege’de dikey konumlandırılmış diğer yapı dizileriyle detaylı çapraz karşılaştırma sayesinde tek bir yerde yerleşimi sürdürmeyi amaçlayan Neolitik dönem uygulamalarının izini sürmekteyiz. Zamanla, yapı sürekliliği bazı haneler tarafından bir yer üzerinde hakimiyet iddia etmek ve kendi yararına uygun hale getirmek için bir stratejiye dönüşmüştür. Neolitik binaların konumu ile ilgili olarak, seçimlerin pratik hususlar üzerinde hakim olduğu sonucuna varmaktayız. Konum konusunda bir karar verildiği zaman, bu art arda inşa edilmesi gereken sağlam olmayan bir evde yaşamak anlamına gelse bile, bundan geri dönüş yoktu.","PeriodicalId":45130,"journal":{"name":"Anatolian Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2016-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0066154616000016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57052780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}