Western Anatolia before Troy : Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? ; Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 November, 2012 /
edited by Barbara Horejs, Mathias Mehofer.
- Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2014.
- 490 p. : illus., maps (some col) ; 30 cm.
- OREA (Oriental and European Archaeology) ; Band: 1. .
- OREA (Oriental and European Archaeology) ; Band: 1. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Proto-Urbanisation without Urban Centres? A Model of Transformationfor the İzmir Region in the 4th Millennium BC / Barbara Horejs -- Past Stories- Modern Narratives : Cultural Dialogues between East Aegean Islands and West Anatolian Mainland in the 4th Millenium BC / Ourania Kouka -- New Insights into the Late Chalcolithic of Coastal Western Anatolia : A View from Bakla Tepe, İzmir / Vasıf Şahoğlu, Riza Tuncel -- New Contributions Regarding Prehistoric Cultures in the Meander Region : Çine-Tepecik / Sevinç Günel -- Iasos, the Carian Chalcolithic and its Relations with Northern Central Anatolia / Christoph Gerber -- The Middle Chalcolithic Cultural Sequence of the Troad (Northwest Anatoliia) : Chronological and Interregional Assessment / Stephan Blum -- The Early Bronze Age Chronology of Troy (Periods I-III) : Pottery Seriation, Radiocarbon Dating and the Gap / Bernhard Weninger, Donald Easton -- The Balkans, The Marmara Region and Greece : In Quest of a Missing Era in Eastern Thrace - Dilemma of the 4th Millenium / Mehmet Özdoğan -- The Wealth of the Tells : Complex Settlement Patterns and Specialisations in the West Pontic Area between 4600 and 4250 calBC / Agathe Reingruber -- The 4th Millenium : A Watershed in European Prehistory / Svend Hansen -- Troy, Baden Culture and Corded Ware - Correlations in the Balkan-Carpatian Region at the Turn of the 4th Millenium BC / Raiko Krauss -- Formation or Transformation? The 4th Millenium BC in the Aegean and the Balkans / Zoi Tsirtsoni -- Times of Change : Greece and the Aegean during the 4th Millenium BC / Eva Alram-Stern -- The Emergence of Trade and the Integration of Crete into the Wider Aegean in the Late 4th Millenium : New Evidence and Implications / Yiannis Papadatos, Peter Tomkins -- Tracing Complexity in 'the Missing Millenium' : An Overview of Recent Research into the Final Neolithic Period on Crete / Peter Tomkins -- Environment, Economy and Technologies : Agricultural Patterns in the Aegean in the 4th Millenium BC - An Explanatory Model / Simone Riehl, Konstantin Pustovoytov, Hussein Othmanli -- Late Chalcolithic Subsistence Strategies on the Basis of Two Examples : The Çukuriçi Höyük in Western Anatolia and the Barcın Höyük in Northwestern Anatolia / Alfred Galik -- Isotopic Indicators of Community Organisation and Integration at İkiztepe : Implications for Anatolian Social Development in the 4th Millenium BC / Lynn Welton -- Lithic Production before and after the 4th Millenium BC in the Lower Danube, South East Bulgaria, Marmara Region and Eastern Aegean / Ivan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva -- Weaving Society in Late Chalcolithic Anatolia : Textile Production and Social Strategies in the 4th Millenium BC / Ulf Schoop -- The Development of Metallurgy in Western Anatolia, the Aegean and Southeastern Europe before Troy / Ernst Pernicka -- Metallurgy during the Chalcolithic and the Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia / Mathias Mehofer .
This volume presents the scientific results of the international symposium Western Anatolia before Troy – Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC?, which took place in Vienna from November 21 to 24, 2012. The initial idea for this conference emerged whilst discussing the role of metals in the Copper Age in western Turkey during our excavations at Çukuriçi Höyük On the one hand, due to the sparse archaeological data published for the 5th and 4th millennia, further conclusions seemed premature On the other hand, the archaeological picture of western Anatolia has changed fundamentally in the last decades, as there are long-term excavations in place that have been contributing new and important information to this old debate The time seemed right to bring together specialists of western Turkey and the neighbouring regions to discuss new data in the light of socio-cultural processes in the period before Troy Furthermore, following the results of the ERC research group (ERC project Prehistoric Anatolia), it appeared high time to focus on this period as it had been frequently neglected in the recent dynamic prehistoric research in western Turkey The intermediate millennia between the archaeological focus on the Neolithic (and early Chalcolithic) of the 7th and 6th millennia BC with ground-breaking results and publications on the one hand and traditional research on the Early Bronze Age in the 3rd millennium BC with new input from important key sites on the other, remained more or less neglected The symposium in Vienna was organised with a narrow chronological focus on the 4th millennium BC in mind to initiate a first step in refreshing the scientific debate on this period. A circle of international experts in the field of archaeology, archaeozoology, archaeobotany, archaeometallurgy and climatology were invited and discussed various cultural phenomena, some of which stretch from across the Balkans to Mesopotamia Moreover the contributions included a vast amount of new archaeological data and inspiring ideas about how to deal with this yet so nebulous period in the future.
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Bronze age--Turkey--Congresses. Prehistoric peoples --Turkey--Congresses. Chalcolithic age --Turkey--Congresses. Urbanization--Turkey--To 1500--Congresses.