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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 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 The Kıble Wall of the Kargı Hanı(Suna and inan Kirac Research institute Mediterranean Civilizations, 2007) N/A; Redford, Scott; Researcher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A; N/AN/APublication Metadata only The early iron age at troy reconsidered(Wiley, 2014) Kealhofer, Lisa; Grave, Peter; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Aslan, Carolyn Chabot; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/ANeutron Activation Analysis (NAA) of Protogeometric ceramics at Troy supports a revision of our understanding of the site in the Protogeometric period. Previous interpretations of this period at Troy emphasized the importance of either Greek migration or Greek trade networks. A category of amphoras previously thought to be imports appears to have been made locally. NAA also indicates local production of a new class of handmade cooking pots, as well as more traditional Gray ware vessels. Analysis reveals a high degree of cultural continuity at Iron Age Troy, with inhabitants adopting and adapting a wider vocabulary of Protogeometric vessel types in the Aegean while integrating them with established local pottery traditions and resource use. The combinations of local and non-local components seen at Troy are more consistent with long-term dynamic Aegean interaction spheres than with more tenuous models of Aeolian migration or Euboian expansion.Publication Metadata only Across the hellespont: Maydos (Ancient Madytos), Troy and The North-Eastern Aegean in the late eighth to early sixth century BC(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016) Sazcı, Göksel; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Aslan, Carolyn Chabot; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article presents new excavation results from three oval or apsidal houses discovered at the site of Maydos-Kilisetepe (ancient Madytos), which is located near the coast of the Hellespont on the Gallipoli peninsula. The houses date to the late eighth to early sixth century BC. The material from Maydos is evaluated in comparison with the nearby site of Troy (Ilion) and situated within the wider context of developments in the north-eastern Aegean region during the Late Geometric to Early Archaic periods. From the mid-eighth to the mid-seventh century, a cultural koine existed in the north-eastern Aegean, shown by the strong similarities in material culture among the sites in the region. Troy was most probably a large regional centre, while Maydos functioned as a smaller settlement within this network. The power and influence of this koine declined or was replaced in the mid-seventh century, when there was a sudden influx of Ionian-style ceramics at Maydos, around the same time that Troy experienced a destruction. The patterns of cultural interactions changed with the establishment of Greek (primarily Ionian and Athenian) colonies on both sides of the Hellespont during the second half of the seventh to the early sixth century.Publication Metadata only Troy and the Northeastern Aegean(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Aslan, Carolyn Chabot; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only A comparative look at Halaf and Ubaid period social complexity and the Tell Kurdu case(Tuba-Turkish acad Sciences, 2010) 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; 55583While the Uruk Period is generally accepted as the earliest state society in the Near East, Assessing the social, political and economic organization of the antecedent Halaf and Ubaid phases has been a matter of long-standing debate. Over-schematized evolutionary categories like "tribes" or "chiefdoms" provide little resolve in characterizing the socio-political complexity of Near Eastern prehistoty because they fail to account for the variability these phases encompass. This paper invites us to move beyond typological categories, yet considers issues of political economy and explores conscious strategies towards social complexity between these two well-known phases of Near Eastern prehistory. Located in the Hatay province of southern Turkey, Tell Kurdu has relatively wide horizontal exposures dating both to the Halaf-related and to the Ubaid-related phases, providing a unique opportunity to explore at a single settlement the contrasting levels of social complexity in the sixth and fifth millennia BC.