Kultepe at the Crossroads Between Disciplines: Society, Settlement and Environment from the Fourth to the First Millennium BC

This fifth volume of a collection devoted to the interdisciplinary meetings held one every two years at Kultepe, ancient Kane, brings together eighteen contributions dedicated to the archaeology and history of this Central Anatolian site and its surroundings. Each chapter within the volume presents the results of current research into Kultepe, thus continuing the holistic approach first demonstrated in earlier volumes of the Kultepe International Meetings sub-series of revitalizing one of the most important cultural centres of early Anatolia and of emphasising its importance as a pilot site for interdisciplinary studies. Drawing on Kultepe's unique textual and archaeological data, the studies gathered here are organized into four key thematic sections devoted respectively to politics, law and religion; women, family and correspondence; human and animal skeletons; and to the most recent archaeological excavations in Kultepe covering a period from the Chalcolithic to Hellenistic times. Front Matter Cécile Michel. 1. Kültepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines: An Introduction Jan Gerrit Dercksen & Jacob Jan de Ridder. 2. A City-State’s Diplomacy in the Early Middle Bronze Age Near East Adelheid Otto. 3. Law and Justice in Kaneš and its Depiction on Cylinder Seals: A New Interpretation of the Motifs ‘Ball-Staff’ and ‘Pot’ Yoram Cohen. 4. The Origins and History of the God Šarra-mātān Amir Gilan. 5. The Cult of Aškašepa in Hittite Sources Anita Fattori. 6. Keeping in Touch: Language and Mobility of Assyrian Women in the Old Assyrian Period Wiebke Beyer. 7. The Hand of a Woman? Matthias Adelhofer. 8. Invoking Relations in Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian Letters Agnete W. Lassen. 9. The Seals of the Šalim-Aššur Family (94/k) Donald Kale, Handan Üstündağ, Semih Özen, Doruk Cafer Özgü & Fikri Kulakoğlu. 10. A First Attempt to Assess Activity Patterns at Kültepe Kameray Özdemir, Handan Üstündağ, Turhan Doğan, Furkan Kulak & Fikri Kulakoğlu. 11. Reconstructing Bronze Age Diet from Stable Isotopes Analysis Fikri Kulakoğlu, Luca Peyronel & Claudia Minniti. 12. Of Lions and Sheep: Animal Exploitation at Kültepe and in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age Fikri Kulakoğlu, Ryoichi Kontani & Yuji Yamaguchi. 13. Discovering the Late Chalcolithic Period at Kültepe Yılmaz Rıdvanoğulları, Güzel Öztürk, Cihan Ay, Elif Genç & Fikri Kulakoğlu. 14. Changes in the Settlement Plan at the End of the Third Millennium bc in Kültepe-Kaneš Fikri Kulakoğlu, Luca Peyronel, Valentina Oselini & Agnese Vacca. 15. The Settlement Sequence of Kültepe from the Late Early to the Middle Bronze Age Andreas Müller-Karpe. 16. Šamuha and Kaneš Adam Anderson. 17. Two New Tablets from the House of Kuliya, Son of Ali-abum, and One Broken Envelope Fikri Kulakoğlu & Luca Peyronel. 18. Recent Excavations on the Mound of Kültepe Burcu. 19. Studies on Kültepe Hellenistic Period Index