Excavations at Van-Yoncatepe Fortress and Necropolis

Belli, Oktay; Konyar, Erkan

doi:10.1179/tav.2001.2001.2.169

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“…The weight of the dogs from M6 ranged between 16.507 and 44.612 kg (Table 2). To ensure the accuracy of our results, separate calculations for the right and left bones (15,16). It has also been asserted by the same authors that the Van-Yoncatepe region was thickly wooded and rich in prey, enabling the neighbouring societies to live widely on hunting and stockbreeding, and to use dogs both as hunting partners and sheepdogs.…”

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Morphometric Examination of Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) from the Van-Yoncatepe Necropolis in Eastern Anatolia

2005

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SUMMARY:In the burial chamber M4 of the Van-Yoncatepe necropolis in eastern Anatolia, dated to the beginning of the first millennium before our time, fox skeletal remains have been discovered together with human skeletal remains. The fox remains consist of two skulls and a large number of skeletal (postcranial) bones. Examination of the material led us to the conclusion that five foxes had been buried in the chamber. Craniometric and osteometric measurements were carried out on the bones, and estimations of shoulder height and body weight have been calculated. Evaluation of all quantitative and qualitative data and comparison with modern fox species led to identification of the remains as red fox (Vulpes vulpes).

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“…In this study, we used bone materials of the dogs unearthed from the necropolis of the Van-Yoncatepe Castle, which dates back to the beginning of the 1 st millennium BC, Early Iron Age (15,16).…”

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Morphometric Examination of Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) from the Van-Yoncatepe Necropolis in Eastern Anatolia

2005

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“…In Mesopotamia, Sb objects are reported from the 3rd millennium BCE (e.g. at Tello, Tell Leilan, Jerablus Tahtani) (Shortland 2002;Moorey 1999), and later from the 1st millennium BCE in Egypt at Lahun (Petrie 1891), in Anatolia at Yoncatepe (Belli and Konyar 2001), and in Iran at Hasanlu (Fleming, Nash, and Swann 2011). In the Caucasus, metallic Sb objects are abundant.…”

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Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis

Dillis

Ham-Meert

Leeming

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Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has only occasionally been studied and questions concerning its provenance are still not satisfactorily answered. This study evaluates the suitability of Sb isotope analysis for provenance determination purposes, as experiments under lab conditions have revealed fractionation occurring during redox processes in oxidising stibnites and in making opacified glasses. The results of this paper help to evaluate the possible influence of the pyrotechnological processes on the antimony isotope composition of glass artefacts. This paper focuses on the Caucasus as case study by applying mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic analysis to Georgian ores (mainly from the Racha-Lechkumi district) and Late Bronze Age (LBA; 15th-10th century BCE) metallic Sb objects found at the sites of Brili and Chalpiragorebi.

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“…5 Sevin and Kavaklı 1996a;Sevin and Kavaklı 1996b;Sevin 1999;Sevin 2004a. 6 Belli and Konyar 2001;Belli and Konyar 2003;Belli and Tozkoparan 2005.…”

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“…16, 24).Fig. 7: Plans, sections and small finds of Yoncatepe M1-M3 underground chamber tombs (afterBelli-Konyar 2001; Belli-Konyar 2003;Konyar 2004).…”

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Comments on the Early/Middle Iron Age Chronology of Lake Van Basin

Köroğlu¹,

Konyar²

2008

Ancient Near Eastern Studies

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In the Van Lake basin, or in Northeast Anatolia in general, Early Iron Age denotes pre-Urartian times. Although the beginning of this age is rather obscure, it is generally accepted that it came to an end with the establishment of the Urartian Kingdom in the middle of the ninth century BC. Following the focus on a number of large, well-planned Urartian sites over the last hundred years or so, there has been a shift in the last twenty years to small, rural settlements and necropoleis, like Dilkaya, Karagündüz and Yoncatepe in the hope of finding pre-Urartian Early Iron Age remains. In this paper we shall discuss 'grooved pottery' and other important finds used to date these sites and necropoleis to the Early

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Excavations at Van-Yoncatepe Fortress and Necropolis

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Morphometric Examination of Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) from the Van-Yoncatepe Necropolis in Eastern Anatolia

Morphometric Examination of Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) from the Van-Yoncatepe Necropolis in Eastern Anatolia

Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis

Comments on the Early/Middle Iron Age Chronology of Lake Van Basin

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