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Publication Metadata only Embracing heritage, empowering communities: visualizing fieldwork and the 6 February 2023 Earthquakes at the Bronze Age City of Tell Atchana, Alalakh(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2024) Akar, Murat; Kirman, Onur Hasan; Bulu, Muge; Maloigne, Helene; Tektas, Gokhan; Ecer, Baran Kerim; Ingman, Tara; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED)The earthquakes on 6 February 2023 in southeastern T & uuml;rkiye and northern Syria were a disaster on a massive scale. Tens of thousands of lives were lost, and the destruction is still being assessed and grappled with today, over a year later. As one of the archaeological projects in the disaster zone, we at the Tell Atchana Excavations, many of us survivors, have had to consider ways in which we can move forward while incorporating and honoring the past-both the past that we study and our own experiences. We have embraced the engagement with the past that characterizes archaeology as a discipline and have come together to support one another and our communities through a large-scale project of preserving the exposed mudbrick monuments at Tell Atchana. This photo essay journeys through the difficulties we faced and the opportunities we found in them and celebrates the healing potential of archaeology in the face of disaster.Publication Metadata only Objects of visual representation and local cultural idioms(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Özbal, Rana; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesIn this paper, I reconsider the meaning of decorated objects like painted pottery and seal impressions with geometric and image-bearing motifs in prehistoric contexts. In northern Mesopotamia, the 6th millennium b.c., known more broadly as the Halaf Period, is a time when pottery with intricate painted motifs and stamp seals of a remarkably uniform style comprised a notable component of the cultural assemblage across a wide expanse. Following Alfred Gell, and using the site of Tell Kurdu, a peripheral Halaf Period 6th millennium b.c. site located in the Amuq Valley of Hatay, I highlight the ways in which such wares were used, and I strive to view them within their context-dependent settings. The region, on the fringes of this cultural entity provides a unique opportunity to identify a local Amuq identity and the nuances of hybridity that come with the appropriation of new elements of material culture, including Halaf Period painted pottery.Publication Metadata only Introduction: how do we think about backdirt?(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Mickel, Allison; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Roosevelt, Christina Marie Luke; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesPublication Metadata only Geochemical analyses to make the invisible more concrete: Cycles of building use and roof hatches at the Early Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Ozbasaran, Mihriban; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kalkan, Fatma; Özbal, Rana; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis study focuses on understanding the use of space at Asikli Hoyuk in central Turkey through the geochemical analyses of five overlying floors of a quadrangular mudbrick building dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period. The research allows us to follow the process on a micro-scale, from the design and construction of the structure to its abandonment. We aim to perceive the role of plastered floors to gain insights into the producers and users of the building and those who kept it alive and maintained it. We will treat floors as one of the main actors of these spaces and zero in on entangled relationships by addressing a range of other aspects in the building. The analyses enable the identification of use patterns. Based on our results, we attempt to provide suggestions about the location of the roof hatches and hence the main access of the inhabitants to the external world.Publication Metadata only Arslantepe in the foreground: the economic and social role of the large blades at the end of the 4th millennium BC(ELSEVIER, 2024) D'Errico, D.; Pellegrini, D.; Pellegrini, A.; Nobile, E.; Lemorini, C.; Moscone, Daniele; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED)This paper focuses on the study of large blade assemblages made from chert raw materials at the site of Arslantepe VI-A period (3500-3200 BCE). By applying an analytical approach combining raw material characterization (NM-PCI protocol), technological and use-wear analyses, and experimental archaeology, we discuss our results from a double perspective. At first glance, we demonstrate the great potential that this proxy offers for the reconstruction of technical systems and routine activities in late prehistoric sites. Secondly, we highlight the contribution of large blades for understanding socio-economic dynamics in case-oriented debates. Specifically, large chert blade study provides further pieces of the puzzle to characterize technical and economic behaviors of the social group settled on the mound of Arslantepe at the end of the 4th millennium BC. At this time, a palatine complex with centralized administration and symbols of power, were tools to boost social inequality.Publication Metadata only Mortar recipes from the Roman Imperial Bath-Gymnasium and Urban Mansion of Sagalassos – a technological perspective(Elsevier, 2024) Quilici, Matilde; Elsen, Jan; Beaujean, Bas; Degryse, Patrick; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Uytterhoeven, Inge; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis work presents the results of the examination of mortars from the archaeological site of Sagalassos in Anatolia (Ağlasun, Burdur Province, Southwest Turkey). The 36 specimens were selected from structures within the Roman Imperial Bath-Gymnasium and Urban Mansion, respectively dating to the 1st-6/7th century CE and the 1st century BCE-7th century CE. These samples underwent macroscopic, microscopic, physical, granulometric and spectroscopic examinations to identify the raw materials and how these were processed. Most importantly, at least five different mortar recipe types were revealed. This diversity emphasises that mortar production was flexible and empirical, probably following a general but not strict procedure. Overall, this research contributes to a better understanding of construction technology at Sagalassos during the Roman Imperial Period and Late Antiquity, a time when mortar materials were systematically used on a large scale.Publication Metadata only Early Byzantine fish consumption and trade revealed by archaeoichthyology and isotopic analysis at sagalassos, Turkey(Elsevier, 2024) Van Neer, Wim; Fuller, Benjamin T.; Fahy, Geraldine E.; De Cupere, Bea; Bouillon, Steven; Richards, Michael P.; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Uytterhoeven, Inge; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesWe document the dietary and economic role of fish at Sagalassos, a town in ancient Pisidia (southwest Turkey) for the Early Byzantine period (c. 550 – 700 CE) through a detailed analysis of animal bones and stable isotopes. The role of fish in the diet is quantified, for the first time, based on large samples of sieved remains retrieved during the excavation of a number of spaces in an urban residence. The table and kitchen refuse from the mansion shows that fish was a regular part of the diet. However, past isotopic work focused on human individuals excavated in the city's necropolises, slightly postdating the faunal remains examined, did not reflect this consumption of aquatic food. The studied assemblage comprises at least 12 different fish taxa, including five marine species, a Nilotic fish and six Anatolian freshwater species. Since the origin of the freshwater fishes could not be unambiguously determined by zoogeography alone, we analyzed carbon, nitrogen and sulphur stable isotope ratios in archaeological fish bones from Sagalassos as well as in bones of modern fish collected at different sites in Turkey. We show that most freshwater fish, i.e., all cyprinid species, came from Lake Eğirdir. No evidence was found for fish from the local Aksu River basin. The exact origin of pike, which account for 3% of all freshwater fish, could not be directly determined due to a shortage of modern comparative data. Using the data obtained on the provenance of the fish, the ancient trade routes possibly used in the Early Byzantine period are reconstructed using a combination of archaeological, numismatic and historical data on past commercial relations.Publication Metadata only Variation in the development of Neolithic societies atop the Central Anatolian Plateau: recent results from Balıklı(Cambridge University Press, 2024) Goring-Morris, A. Nigel; Munro, Natalie D.; Ozbasaran, Mihriban; Kayacan, Nurcan; Ergun, Müge; Uzdurum, Melis; Yelozer, Sera; Duru, Güneş; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kalkan, Fatma; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesPublication Metadata only Reconsidering identity in the halaf world: a study of coarse wares in sixth millennium North Mesopotamia(Koc Univ Suna and inan Kirac Res Ctr Mediterranean Civilizations-akmed, 2017) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Özbal, Rana; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 55583N/APublication Metadata only Zooarchaeology in the era of big data: contending with interanalyst variation and best practices for contextualizing data for informed reuse(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2018) Kansa, Sarah Whitcher; ANAMED Research Fellowship; Lau, Hannah Kwai-Yung; Researcher; N/A; N/ANew digital publication technologies facilitate the publication of primary data and increase the ease with which archaeologists are able to share, combine, and synthesize large datasets. The research prospects that these technologies make possible are exciting, but they raise the issue of how comparable the original datasets really are. In this study we demonstrate an issue associated with many archaeological datasets: interanalyst variation. We conduct two independent analyses of one zooarchaeological assemblage and compare data. We consider the implications of the challenge interanalyst variation poses within projects and across projects. We then make recommendations for zooarchaeologists specifically, and for archaeologists more broadly, who are interested in publishing primary datasets in order to improve future understanding of these data and facilitate their reuse. These recommendations include specific guidance of what information needs to be published along with primary datasets to facilitate their responsible reuse in other projects, recommendations for incorporating interanalyst variation studies into research programs, and suggestions about what to do should analysts discover systematic biases in their analyses stemming from interanalyst variation.