Geometric clay objects

Bennison-Chapman, Lucy

doi:10.18866/biaa2015.024

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“…One option is that these balls were kept as blanks to make objects such as small figurines, but Atalay argues that they may have been used as tokens. L. Bennison-Chapman (2013) shows that small geometric clay objects, many perhaps largely used in some token-like way (following Schmandt-Besserat 1996), largely occur in the uppermost levels -from South P and 4040 H onwards.…”

Section: The Lower Levels Up To 6500 Bcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Çatalhöyük: the leopard changes its spots. A summary of recent work

Hodder

2014

Anatol. Stud.

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This paper summarises and interprets data from the Neolithic site ot Çatalhöyük East collected between 2000 and 2008, while at the same time integrating data from earlier and more recent excavation seasons. The paper focuses on evidence for change during the occupation of the site, arguing for an increase in the size and density of occupation into the middle levels associated with symbolic and ritual elaboration within an aggressively egalitarian community. The middle ‘classic’ levels at Çatalhöyük were associated with increased workload, physical stresses and illness. The pressures were relieved in the upper levels after 6500 BC by shifts to greater mobility, increased economic independence of houses and dispersal of population. This shift in the upper levels may be of relevance to the spread of farming populations into northwestern Anatolia and Europe.

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Section: The Lower Levels Up To 6500 Bcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Çatalhöyük: the leopard changes its spots. A summary of recent work

Hodder

2014

Anatol. Stud.

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“…Systematic analysis of over 700 clay objects, considering object form, use-wear, immediate contextual deposition and broader spatial and temporal patterning, finds no support for the interpretation of these items as information storage tools at Çatalhöyük. Furthermore, the study of the distribution of clay objects across the wider Neolithic Near East, reveals little indication of correlations between site type, size, complexity and lifestyle, as would be expected (Bennison-Chapman 2013). At Çatalhöyük, there is no evidence for the use of small geometric clay objects as "tokens"symbols used to represent goods or produce, and to retain information for retrieval at a later point in time.…”

Section: Conscious Tokens?mentioning

confidence: 92%

Conscious Tokens?

Bennison-Chapman¹

2020

Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life

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“…The inhabitants of Boncuklu made a variety of objects from clay, including figurines and a large number of other, geometric and amorphous objects (Bennison-Chapman 2014), for which parallels can also be found at Çatalhöyük (Atalay 2005;Bennison-Chapman 2013;Hamilton 2005;Meskell 2007;Meskell et al 2008;Nakamura & Meskell 2009;. Other examples of fired clay figures prior to 7000 cal.…”

Section: The Boncuklu Assemblagementioning

confidence: 99%

Early Ceramics in Anatolia: Implications for the Production and Use of the Earliest Pottery. The Evidence from Boncuklu Höyük

Fletcher¹,

Baird²,

Spataro³

et al. 2017

CAJ

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Fragments of possible fired clay found at Boncuklu Höyük, central Turkey, appear to derive from rudimentary vessels, despite the later ninth- and early eighth-millennium cal. bc and thus ‘Aceramic’ dates for the site. This paper will examine the evidence for such fired clay vessels at Boncuklu and consider their implications as examples of some of the earliest pottery in Anatolia. The discussion will examine contextual evidence for the role of these fragments and consider their relative rarity at the site and the implications for the marked widespread adoption of pottery in southwest Asia c. 7000–6700 cal. bc.

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Geometric clay objects

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Çatalhöyük: the leopard changes its spots. A summary of recent work

Çatalhöyük: the leopard changes its spots. A summary of recent work

Conscious Tokens?

Early Ceramics in Anatolia: Implications for the Production and Use of the Earliest Pottery. The Evidence from Boncuklu Höyük

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