Publication: Exploring space, economy, and interregional interaction at a second-millennium B.C.E. citadel in central western Anatolia: 2014-2017 research at Kaymakçı
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Ünlüsoy, Sinan
Çakırlar, Canan
Marston, John M.
O'Grady, Caitlin R.
Pavuk, Peter
Pieniazek, Magda
Mokrisova, Jana
Scott, Catherine B.
Shin, Nami
Slim, Francesca G.
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Current understandings of the archaeology of second-millennium B.C.E. central western Anatolia are enriched by ongoing research at Kaymakci, located in the Marmara Lake basin of the middle Gediz River valley in western Turkey. Discovered during regional survey in 2001, the site offers a critical node of exploration for understanding a previously unexamined period in a well-traversed geography thought to be the core of the Late Bronze Age Seha River Land known from I finite texts. Here we present results from the first three seasons of excavation on the citadel of Kaymakci plus a study season (2014-2017), introducing the site's chronology, historical and regional context, and significance through presentation of excavation areas as well as material and subsistence economies. With reference to such evidence, we discuss the site's development, organization, and interregional interactions, demonstrating its place in local and regional networks that connected Aegean and central Anatolian spheres of interest.
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Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
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American Journal of Archaeology
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10.3764/aja.122.4.0645