مطالعات سنگی: آناتولی و فراتر از آن

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies. Lithic studies are mostly conducted on a site by site basis, and specialist studies on lithics tend to focus primarily on technology and typology. As a result, information acquired through lithic research is presented as the identifier of the particular site with the addition of brief local correlations. This creates isolated islands of information. This volume is intended to bring these islands together to build the bigger picture, showcasing the fluidity of technological change, transitional cultural developments, and cultural formation by focusing on the interrelations between sites, localities and regions. Individually and collectively the wide range of papers in the volume give perspectives on Neolithization as seen through stone technologies, highlighting both regional trends and interregional relationships. The volume lays the foundations for creating an integrated understanding of Neolithic lithic technologies across the broad geographical regions of Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies. Lithic studies are mostly conducted on a site by site basis, and specialist studies on lithics tend to focus primarily on technology and typology. As a result, information acquired through lithic research is presented as the identifier of the particular site with the addition of brief local correlations. This creates isolated islands of information. This volume is intended to bring these islands together to build the bigger picture, showcasing the fluidity of technological change, transitional cultural developments, and cultural formation by focusing on the interrelations between sites, localities and regions. Individually and collectively the wide range of papers in the volume give perspectives on Neolithization as seen through stone technologies, highlighting both regional trends and interregional relationships. The volume lays the foundations for creating an integrated understanding of Neolithic lithic technologies across the broad geographical regions of Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. About the Editor Adnan Baysal is Associate Professor of Prehistory at Ankara University, Turkey. He received his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2010. He specializes in the Anatolian Neolithic and has worked extensively on the social and economic implications of ground stone assemblages from Çatalhöyük and other contemporary Central Anatolia sites. His edited volumes are on Networks and Social Organization (2015), Stone Tools in Anatolian Archaeology (2018), Time and History in Prehistory (2019) and Material Culture and People (2021). Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright page 6 Contents Page 7 Authors 8 Foreword 11 Mehmet Özdoğan 11 Connecting Lithics: An Introduction to Lithic Studies in Anatolia and Beyond 13 Adnan Baysal 13 Raw Material Matters 23 Elizabeth Healey 23 Use-wear Analysis of Lithic Tools: Technical Processes and Cultural Developments in Anatolia 62 Laurence Astruc 62 The Projectile Points of Neolithic Çatalhöyük: A Contextual Multi-Attribute Analysis 70 Lilian Dogiama 70 The Importance of Lithics in Determining the Economic Models and Lifestyles of Prehistoric Societies: The Kanlıtaş Höyük Example 85 Neyir Kolankaya-Bostancı 85 The Lithic Assemblage of Suluin Cave in Antalya (sw Anatolia) 98 Zehra Fürüzen Taşkıran and Harun Taşkıran 98 Lithic Assemblages from the Marmara Region: 7th -3rd mill. BC 122 Ivan Gatsov and Petranka Nedelcheva 122 Yeşilova Höyük Neolithic Period Chipped Stone Industry 134 Betül Fındık and Zafer Derin 134 The Techno-Typology of The Projectile Points of the Neolithic Settlement of Ege Gübre (Izmir/Turkey) 143 Eşref Erbil 143 Interpreting Chipped Stone Assemblages of the Neolithic in Western Anatolia – A Conceptual View 151 Bogdana Milić 151 Looking West: Central Anatolian Obsidian in the Western Anatolian Peninsula and Eastern Aegean 162 Marina Milić 162 Viewing Melian Neolithic Obsidian Networks from the Western Side of the Aegean sea (Greece): Distribution Parameters and Data Reconsidered 176 Lia Karimali and Stella Papadopoulou 176 Stone Technology Under the Microscope: the Contribution of Microwear Analysis of Ground Stone Tools to the Understanding of Daily Activities 225 Christina Tsoraki 225 On the Function and Ethnographic Analogies of North East Aegean Ground Stone Tools 237 Abdulkadir Özdemir and A. Onur Bamyacı 237 General Assessment of the Ground Stone Industries of the Marmara Region 249 Emre Güldoğan 249 So Close, Yet So Far Away: the Ground Stone Tool Assemblages from the Two Neighbouring Settlements of Kleitos, North-western Greece 259 Danai Chondrou 259 Abrasive Stone Tools in the Neolithic of Serbia: from Recognition to Publication 277 Dragana Antonović and Vidan Dimić 277 This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.