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.
Author(s): Çiğdem Maner (ed.); Mara T. Horowitz (ed.); Allan S. Gilbert (ed.)
Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 90
Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: Thanks to хемуль at twirpx.com
Pages: 717
Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology: A Festschrift in Honor of K. Aslıhan Yener
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Contents
Foreword
K. Aslıhan Yener Publications
1 Pointed Juglets as an International Trend in Late Bronze Ritual Practices: A View from Alalakh
2 Demographic Trends in Early Mesopotamian Urbanism
3 Lapis Lazuli and Shells from Mari to Ebla
4 The Metals Trade and Early Bronze Age Craft Production at Tell Tayinat
5 A Gold and Lapis Lazuli Bead from Petras, Crete
6 Alloys and Architecture: Periodic and Quasiperiodic Patterns in Sinan’s Selimiye in Edirne
7 A Syro-Cilician Pitcher from a Middle Bronze Age Kitchen at Tell Atchana, Alalakh
8 Available in All Colors! Remarks on Some Masks from the Late Bronze Age Levant
9 Alalakh Monsters
10 Sharing Technologies and Workspaces for Ceramic and Vitrified Material Production at Tell Atchana-Alalakh
11 Unpublished Hittite Seals in the Collections of the Amasya Museum
12 Thoughts on the Anthropomorphic Pottery Vessel Found in Liman Tepe
13 The Role of Metal Procurement in the Wide Interregional Connections of Arslantepe during the Late 4th–Early 3rd Millennia BC
14 Why Alashiya is Still a Problem
15 Novel Uses of Wild Faunal Resources at Transitional Middle-Late Bronze Age Tell Atchana
16 The Extramural Cemetery at Tell Atchana, Alalakh, and GIS Modeling
17 Origins of the Copper Ingots of Alalakh
18 Were There Sea Peoples at Alalakh (Tell Atchana)?
19 Alalakh and Kizzuwatna: Some Thoughts on the Synchronization
20 Early Iron in Assyria
21 Balance Stone Weights and Scale-Pans from Kültepe-Kanesh: On One of the Basic Elements of the Old Assyrian Trading System
22 The Organization of Metal Production at Hattuša: A First Assessment
23 A Metal Workshop? Multi-Hollow Anvils at Taştepe Obası in Southeastern Konya
24 Upstream from Alalakh: The Lower Orontes Area in Syria
25 The Çaltılar Archaeological Project: Archaeological, Archaeometric, and Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Pottery Production and Consumption in Southwest Turkey
26 New Observations for the Late Chalcolithic Settlement at Barcın Höyük
27 Pass the Wine: Drinking Cups at Early Bronze III Tarsus
28 An Underworld Cult Monument in Antioch: The Charonion
29 The Iron Age II “Spoon Stoppers/Censers” Production in the Amuq: An Example from Chatal Höyük
30 Unprovenienced Seals from the Amuq in the Hatay Museum
31 Alalaḫ/Mukiš under Hittite Rule and Thereafter
32 The Anatolian-Syrian Relationship in the Light of the Ortaköy-Šapinuwa Tablets
33 Iron Age Arrowheads from Kerkenes
34 The Contexts of Painted Plaster in the Middle Bronze Age Palace of Tel Kabri
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