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).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Foreword -- Pointed Juglets as an International Trend in Late Bronze Ritual Practices: A View from Alalakh / Murat Akar -- Demographic Trends in Early Mesopotamian Urbanism / Guillermo Algaze -- Lapis Lazuli and Shells from Mari to Ebla / Alfonso Archi -- The Metals Trade and Early Bronze Age Craft Production at Tell Tayinat / Stephen Batiuk and Timothy P. Harrison -- A Gold and Lapis Lazuli Bead from Petras, Crete / Philip P. Betancourt , James D. Muhly and Susan C. Ferrence -- Alloys and Architecture: Periodic and Quasiperiodic Patterns in Sinan’s Selimiye in Edirne / Carol Bier -- A Syro-Cilician Pitcher from a Middle Bronze Age Kitchen at Tell Atchana, Alalakh / Müge Bulu -- Available in All Colors! Remarks on Some Masks from the Late Bronze Age Levant / Annie Caubet -- Alalakh Monsters / Dominique Collon -- Sharing Technologies and Workspaces for Ceramic and Vitrified Material Production at Tell Atchana-Alalakh / Gonca Dardeniz -- Unpublished Hittite Seals in the Collections of the Amasya Museum / Meltem Doğan-Alparslan and Metin Alparslan -- Thoughts on the Anthropomorphic Pottery Vessel Found in Liman Tepe / Armağan Erkanal and Ayşegül Aykurt -- The Role of Metal Procurement in the Wide Interregional Connections of Arslantepe during the Late 4th–Early Third Millennia bc / Marcella Frangipane -- Why Alashiya is Still a Problem1 / Allan S. Gilbert -- Novel Uses of Wild Faunal Resources at Transitional Middle-Late Bronze Age Tell Atchana / Mara T. Horowitz and Canan Çakırlar -- The Extramural Cemetery at Tell Atchana, Alalakh, and gis Modeling / Tara Ingman -- Origins of the Copper Ingots of Alalakh / Ergun Kaptan -- Were There Sea Peoples at Alalakh (Tell Atchana)? / Robert B. Koehl -- Alalakh and Kizzuwatna: Some Thoughts on the Synchronization / Ekin Kozal and Mirko Novák -- Early Iron in Assyria / Hartmut Kühne -- Balance Stone Weights and Scale-Pans from Kültepe-Kanesh: On One of the Basic Elements of the Old Assyrian Trading System / Fikri Kulakoğlu -- The Organization of Metal Production at Hattuša: A First Assessment / Joseph W. Lehner and Andreas Schachner -- A Metal Workshop? Multi-Hollow Anvils at Taştepe Obası in Southeastern Konya / Çiğdem Maner -- Upstream from Alalakh: The Lower Orontes Area in Syria / Stefania Mazzoni -- The Çaltılar Archaeological Project: Archaeological, Archaeometric, and Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Pottery Production and Consumption in Southwest Turkey / Nicoletta Momigliano and Mustafa Kibaroğlu -- New Observations for the Late Chalcolithic Settlement at Barcın Höyük / Rana Özbal , Hadi Özbal , Fokke Gerritsen , Ayla Türkekul Bıyık and Turhan Doğan -- Pass the Wine: Drinking Cups at Early Bronze iii Tarsus / Aslı Özyar -- An Underworld Cult Monument in Antioch: The Charonion / Hatice Pamir -- The Iron Age ii “Spoon Stoppers/Censers” Production in the Amuq: An Example from Chatal Höyük / Marina Pucci -- Unprovenienced Seals from the Amuq in the Hatay Museum / Robert K. Ritner , Hasan Peker and Ömer Çelik -- Alalaḫ/Mukiš under Hittite Rule and Thereafter / Itamar Singer † -- The Anatolian-Syrian Relationship in the Light of the Ortaköy-Šapinuwa Tablets / Aygül Süel -- Iron Age Arrowheads from Kerkenes / Geoffrey D. Summers -- The Contexts of Painted Plaster in the Middle Bronze Age Palace of Tel Kabri / Assaf Yasur-Landau , Nurith Goshen and Eric H. Cline.