Overturning certainties in Near Eastern archaeology : : a festschrift in honor of K. Aslihan Yener / / edited by Cigdem Maner, Mara T. Horowitz, Allan S. Gilbert.

• Superior document: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 90
• TeilnehmendeR: Maner, Çiğdem,; Horowitz, Mara T., 1976-; Gilbert, Allan S., 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 90.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (717 pages) :; illustrations (some color).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Foreword --; Pointed Juglets as an International Trend in Late Bronze Ritual Practices: A View from Alalakh /; Demographic Trends in Early Mesopotamian Urbanism /; Lapis Lazuli and Shells from Mari to Ebla /; The Metals Trade and Early Bronze Age Craft Production at Tell Tayinat /; A Gold and Lapis Lazuli Bead from Petras, Crete /; Alloys and Architecture: Periodic and Quasiperiodic Patterns in Sinan’s Selimiye in Edirne /; A Syro-Cilician Pitcher from a Middle Bronze Age Kitchen at Tell Atchana, Alalakh /; Available in All Colors! Remarks on Some Masks from the Late Bronze Age Levant /; Alalakh Monsters /; Sharing Technologies and Workspaces for Ceramic and Vitrified Material Production at Tell Atchana-Alalakh /; Unpublished Hittite Seals in the Collections of the Amasya Museum /; Thoughts on the Anthropomorphic Pottery Vessel Found in Liman Tepe /; The Role of Metal Procurement in the Wide Interregional Connections of Arslantepe during the Late 4th–Early Third Millennia bc /; Why Alashiya is Still a Problem1 /; Novel Uses of Wild Faunal Resources at Transitional Middle-Late Bronze Age Tell Atchana /; The Extramural Cemetery at Tell Atchana, Alalakh, and gis Modeling /; Origins of the Copper Ingots of Alalakh /; Were There Sea Peoples at Alalakh (Tell Atchana)? /; Alalakh and Kizzuwatna: Some Thoughts on the Synchronization /; Early Iron in Assyria /; Balance Stone Weights and Scale-Pans from Kültepe-Kanesh: On One of the Basic Elements of the Old Assyrian Trading System /; The Organization of Metal Production at Hattuša: A First Assessment /; A Metal Workshop? Multi-Hollow Anvils at Taştepe Obası in Southeastern Konya /; Upstream from Alalakh: The Lower Orontes Area in Syria /; The Çaltılar Archaeological Project: Archaeological, Archaeometric, and Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Pottery Production and Consumption in Southwest Turkey /; New Observations for the Late Chalcolithic Settlement at Barcın Höyük /; Pass the Wine: Drinking Cups at Early Bronze iii Tarsus /; An Underworld Cult Monument in Antioch: The Charonion /; The Iron Age ii “Spoon Stoppers/Censers” Production in the Amuq: An Example from Chatal Höyük /; Unprovenienced Seals from the Amuq in the Hatay Museum /; Alalaḫ/Mukiš under Hittite Rule and Thereafter /; The Anatolian-Syrian Relationship in the Light of the Ortaköy-Šapinuwa Tablets /; Iron Age Arrowheads from Kerkenes /; The Contexts of Painted Plaster in the Middle Bronze Age Palace of Tel Kabri /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9004353577
• ISSN: 1566-2055
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Cigdem Maner, Mara T. Horowitz, Allan S. Gilbert.

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.