Overturning certainties in Near Eastern archaeology : a festschrift in honor of K. Aslihan Yener / edited by Çiğdem Maner, Mara T. Horowitz, Allan S. Gilbert.

Includes bibliographical references pages and index.

Pointed juglets as an international trend in Late Bronze ritual practices : a view from Alalakh / Murat Akar -- Demographic trends in early Mesopotamian urbanism / Guillermo Algaze -- Lapis lazuli and shells from Mari to Ebla / Alfonso Archi -- The metals trade and Early Bronze Age craft production at Tell Tayinat / Stephen Batiuk and Timothy P. Harrison -- A gold and lapis lazuli bead from Petras, Crete / Philip P. Betancourt, James D. Muhly and Susan C. Ferrence -- Alloys and architecture : periodic and quasiperiodic patterns in Sinan's Selimiye / Carol Bier -- A Syro-Cilician pitcher from a Middle Bronze kitchen at Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh / Muge Bulu -- Available in all colors! Remarks on some masks from the Late Bronze Age Levant / Annie Caubet -- Alalakh monsters / Dominique Collon -- Sharing technologies and workspaces for ceramic and vitrified material production at Tell Atchana-Alalakh / Gonca Dardeniz -- Unpublished Hittite seals in the collections of the Amasya Museum / Meltem Dogan-Alparslan and Metin Alparslan -- Thoughts on the athropomorphic pottery vessel found in Liman Tepe / Armagan Erkanal and Aysegul Aykurt -- The role of metal procurement in the wide interregional connections of Arslantepe during the late 4th-early 3rd millennia BC / Marcella Frangipane -- Why Alashiya is still a problem / Allan S. Gilbert -- Novel uses of wild faunal resources at transitional Middle-Late Bronze Age Tell Atchana / Mara T. Horowitz and Canan Cakirlar -- The extramural cemetery at Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh, and GIS modeling / Tara Ingman -- Origins of the copper ingots of Alalakh / Ergun Kaptan -- Were there Sea Peoples at Alalakh (Tell Atchana)? / Robert B. Koehl -- Alalakh and Kizzuwatna : some thoughts on the synchronization / Ekin Kozal and Mirko Novak -- Early iron in Assyria / Hartmut Kuhne -- Balance stone weights and scale-pans from Kultepe-Kanesh : on one of the basic elements of the Old Assyrian trading system / Fikri Kulakoglu -- The organization of metal production at Hattusa : a first assessment / Joseph W. Lehner and Andreas Schachner -- A metal workshop? Multi-hollow anvils at Tastepe Obasi in Southeastern Konya / Cigdem Maner -- Upstream from Alalakh : the Lower Orontes area in Syria / Stefania Mazzoni -- The Caltilar Archaeological Project : archaeological, archaeometric, and ethnoarchaeological investigations of pottery production and consumption in Southwest Turkey / Nicoletta Momigliano and Mustafa Kibaroglu -- New observations for the Late Chalcolithic settlement at Barcin Hoyuk / Rana Ozbal, Hadi Ozbal, Fokke Gerritsen, Ayla Turkekul Biyik and Turhan Dogan -- Pass the wine : drinking cups at Early Bronze III Tarsus / Asli Ozyar -- An underworld cult monument in Antioch : The Charonion / Hatice Pamir -- The Iron Age II "spoon stoppers/censers" production in Amuq : an example from Chatal Hoyuk / Marina Pucci -- Unprovenienced seals from the Amuq in the Hatay Museum / Robert K. Ritner and Hasan Peker -- Alala?/Mukis under Hittite rule and thereafter / Itamar Singer -- The Anatolian-Syrian relationship in the light of the Ortakoy-Sapinuwa tablets / Aygul Suel -- Iron Age arrowheads from Kerkenes / Geoffrey D. Summers -- The contexts of painted plaster in the Middle Bronze Age palace of Tel Kabri / Assaf Yasur-Landau, Nurith Goshen and Eric H. Cline.

This volume, Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology, is a festschrift dedicated to Professor K. Aslıhan Yener in honor of over four decades of exemplary research, teaching, fieldwork, and publication. The thirty-five chapters presented by her colleagues includes a broad, interdisciplinary range of studies in archaeology, archaeometry, art history, and epigraphy of the Ancient Near East, especially reflecting Prof Yener's interests in metallurgy, small finds, trade, Anatolia, and the site of Tell Atchana/Alalakh.