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Item Metadata only “Princeton’s gift to Turkey”: exploring the political matrix of the Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem and Late Ottoman Sardis(Penn State University Press, 2023) 0000-0003-0979-2510; L Çelik, Semih; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Roosevelt, Christina Marie Luke; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 235112Whereas it has often been argued that conflict and Western imperial ambitions and ensuing Ottoman defensive policies guided the direction of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century archaeology in Anatolia and the Middle East, here we offer a perspective of high-profile American-Ottoman mutual partage diplomacy. This view stems from the relationship between Princeton University and the Imperial Museum in Constantinople. From a multiscalar approach that includes microlocal and macroimperial histories, we demonstrate how this American alliance trumped Ottoman citizenship and transcended physical and political jurisdictions. “Princeton’s Gift to Turkey”—the excavation, transfer, and installment of the Orpheus mosaic from the northwest corner of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem to the Imperial Museum—triggered a lasting relationship between Osman Hamdi Bey and Howard Crosby Butler. Underwritten by financial means and technological capacity, this alliance foreshadowed the transformative period at Late Ottoman Sardis. © 2023 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.Publication Open Access A Lower Paleolithic assemblage from western Anatolia: the lithics from Bozyer(Elsevier, 2019) Dinçer, Berkay; Çilingiroğlu, Çiler; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Roosevelt, Christopher Havemeyer; Roosevelt, Christina Marie Luke; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 235112In 2005 the Central Lydia Archaeological Survey (CLAS) identified an open-air Lower Paleolithic site called Bozyer near Lake Marmara in the province of Manisa, Turkey. Intensive survey of Bozyer in 2008 resulted in collection of over 300 stone tools. Subsequent systematic analysis attributed 189 of these lithics to a Lower Paleolithic industry. The assemblage is characterized by flakes and retouched flake tools, many of which were produced with the bipolar flaking technique; preferential use of locally available quartz and quartzite over chert; a low proportion of cores, most of which were reused as choppers and chopping tools; and the absence of bifaces and other large cutting tools. With few exceptions, similar assemblages are rare in Anatolia, and comparable industries from Eurasia and the Near East date to the Early Pleistocene period. The lithic industry from Bozyer thus joins other nearby sites in evidencing some of the earliest hominin activities outside Africa, shedding new light on growing understandings of Lower Paleolithic technology, mobility, and activities in Anatolia.Publication Metadata only Dendrochronology and archival texts: dating the Ottoman fortress of seddulbahir on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey(Wiley, 2020) Akkemik, Ünal; Köse, N. Buse; Çatalbaş, Meltem; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Şenocak, Lucienne; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 100679This paper provides the results of the dendrochronological analyses of seven wood samples from the Ottoman fortress of Seddulbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula or Turkey. It concludes that the trees were cut in the late spring of 1656. The data collected allows the first building phase of the fortress to be securely dated. By bringing together the dendrochronological results with various archival records about the fortress, a more precise building chronology for the fortress can be reconstructed. The probable initial period of construction was between 1656 and 1661.Publication Metadata only Heritage and scent: research and exhibition of Istanbul's changing smellscapes(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2017) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Davis, Lauren Nicole; Şenocak, Lucienne; PhD Student; Faculty Member; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 100679This paper examines heritage, and particularly intangible heritage, by concentrating on the experience of smell to explore a heritage site in Istanbul, Turkey: the Spice Market. Due to a restoration project, the site became the focus of the 2012 international workshop Urban Cultural Heritage and Creative Practice,' which aimed at documenting the existing and threatened scents of the marketplace. in 2016 a gallery exhibition, Scent and the City,' was created as part of an effort to raise awareness about how scent constitutes an important component of the heritage of place. after providing a brief overview of the marketplace's transformations since its construction in the seventeenthcentury, this paper covers various methods of scent research, including scent walks, mapping, oral history interviews, and artistic performances, and illustrates how the smellscapes of this historic, and now touristic, quarter of Istanbul are changing. By bringing a sensory approach to this important heritage site in Istanbul we demonstrate how an embodied approach, which forefronts scent as intangible heritage and a primary modality, can serve as a catalyst for individuals and communities to access their memories, emotions, and values and increase awareness of the role scent plays in defining locality.Publication Metadata only Interregional contacts in the halaf period: archaeometric analyses of pottery from Tell Kurdu, turkey(2019) Vsiansky, Dalibor; Gregerova, Miroslava; Kynicky, Jindrich; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Özbal, Rana; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 55583Dating to the sixth millennium BC, the Halaf Period of northern Mesopotamia has long been considered a time of intense interaction and communication. This claim is based on the remarkable similarity that Halaf Period ceramic styles and especially painted pottery motifs show even over great distances. Analyzed for this paper are a series of potsherds from the contemporaneous levels of the site of Tell Kurdu located in the Amuq Valley of southern Turkey. A range of techniques including X-ray diffraction, wet chemical analysis, scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis, and petrography have been used in order to assess the source materials and to infer evidence for imports. Results show that although painted ceramic motifs at Tell Kurdu are Halaf-like in their general style, they are locally made. Moreover, at least one unpainted sherd may indicate that the sixth millennium inhabitants of Tell Kurdu must also have been involved in an inter-regional trade network. The latter conclusion mirrors similar results by other researchers who have consistently shown that ceramics were regularly traded across northern Mesopotamia in the sixth millennium BC.Item Metadata only UNESCO-UNDP's "Save Carthage" campaign: Americans and internationalisation of heritage in Tunisia(Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2023) 0000-0003-0979-2510; Leeson, Madison; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Roosevelt, Christina Marie Luke; Faculty Member; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 235112In the early 1970s, the Tunisian government sought to balance the preservation of cultural heritage and tourism with urban development at the sprawling archaeological site of Carthage. UNESCO launched the 'Save Carthage' campaign and brought together 18 international archaeological teams to survey, excavate, and stabilise the site. Two American teams from Michigan and Harvard represented the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). However optimistic their aims, we demonstrate how the internationalism that the 'Save Carthage' campaign embodied through the 1970s was undermined by disputes between the American archaeologists and their Tunisian hosts, limited funding opportunities, and a failure to integrate deeply with the postcolonial landscape of North Africa. Lessons learned from this case study illustrate the major role played by archaeology in the landscape of international development assistance and highlight the mixed success of both UNESCO and the United States in Tunisia.