New Data for the Definition of the DFBW Horizon and Its Internal Developments

Restelli, Francesca Balossi

doi:10.2143/ana.30.0.2015519

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“…3 Some shapes also appear at Mersin Yumuktepe in levels 29-26 (Balossi 2004a: 138). Following Balossi"s designations, this site would probably correspond to a later part of the Amuq A assemblage, or what she calls Amuq A2, and possibly to the earliest beginnings of the Amuq B (Balossi 2004b).…”

Section: The Neolithic Of the Amuq A-b Phasesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Painted wares with Halaf and Ubaid-like motifs inspired by supra-regional trends tend to be the main chronological markers. Recent excavations in the Rouj Basin to the south and sites to the north such as Yumuktepe provide comparative material which could help in refining the early Neolithic Amuqian plain wares (Balossi 2004a;2004b;Iwasaki and Tsuneki 2003). Future research at a local Neolithic site is bound to bring definition to the existing chronologies and probablygiven the El-Rouj sequenceyield earlier horizons and proof for the sorely missing pre-pottery levels.…”

Section: Rana öZbalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Amuq Valley, Hatay

Gerritsen

Giorgi²,

Eger³

et al. 2008

Anatolica

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Section: The Neolithic Of the Amuq A-b Phasesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Rana öZbalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Amuq Valley, Hatay

Gerritsen

Giorgi²,

Eger³

et al. 2008

Anatolica

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“…For example, clay figurines were in use at many regions of north Mesopotamia, while they were not a significant part of the north Levantine Neolithic material culture (Kuijt & Chesson 2005;Rollefson 2008). The continuous presence of the local ceramic Neolithic tradition of the so-called 'dark faced burnished wares', even after the adoption of Halaf wares, may also support the persistence of different mediums of social control in different regions (Balossi 2004). This is interesting, considering the fact that stamps began to be used in the northern Levant at a relatively earlier time than in north Iraq (Denham 2013).…”

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“…ceramics with dark paint on a light-coloured base and distinctive shapes, such as straight-sided and carinated vessels, along with open plates (Campbell 1992;Cruells & Nieuwenhuyse 2004). By the beginning of the sixth millennium bc, Halaf-style ceramics were regularly found in many regions of north Mesopotamia and north Levant, al-beit in differing proportions to the local wares (Balossi 2004).…”

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From Monuments to Miniatures: Emergence of Stamps and Related Image-bearing Objects during the Neolithic

Atakuman¹

2015

CAJ

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In southwest Asia, the emphasis on architecture and burial ritual, which was instrumental in the construction of place-bound identities during the Early Neolithic (c. 10,000–7000 cal. bc), shifted toward an emphasis on miniature portable objects, such as figurines, stamps and ceramics, during the Later Neolithic (c. 7000–5000 cal. bc). Through a focus on stamps, this article argues that the appearance and proliferation of image-bearing portable objects is related to a new understanding of identities around emergent concepts of ‘house’ and ‘community’, which reordered the terms of social affiliation as well as difference and hierarchy at various scales. In terms of an iconographical approach, stamp imagery shows some affinities with the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic themes of the Early Neolithic; however, the majority of the Later Neolithic stamp imagery is composed of highly abstract types that cannot immediately be associated with the themes of the Early Neolithic. A close examination would indicate that these abstract types were also reproduced by manipulating ancestral imagery. It would also appear that certain types of images were employed on certain types of objects, such as ceramics and figurines, in increasingly structured ways. Arguably, these seemingly different object classes are an outcome of a seamless historical discourse of raw materials, images and forms, continuously shifting the conceptualization of self and society. It is in this context that stamps may be treated as figurines of a highly abstract, highly crafted and highly standardized nature. While the clay figurines appropriated social identities in the domestic sphere, stamps and ceramics were instrumental in linking multiple scales of identity formation, from personal to communal. Reconsidering the material shift from the Early to Late Neolithic, I suggest that the spreading regulation of appropriating body and food was central in the construction of a convergent politics of reproduction around the concepts of ‘house’.

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“…From the start of the project we have been conscious of the fact that since the term 'Dark-Faced Burnished Ware' was first coined (Braidwood and Braidwood 1960), it has become a rather poorlydefined catch-all category for almost anything found in the northern Levant that is prehistoric pottery, dark-coloured and burnished (for specific critiques, see Miyake 2003;Özdogan 2009). As a response, ceramic analysts increasingly acknowledge the need to combine generic macroscopic categorizations with archaeometric studies, in order to specify precisely what type of DFBW they are discussing (Balossi 2004;2017;Diebold 2000;2004;Le Miere and Picon 1999;Mathias 2015;Miyake 2003;Tsuneki and Miyake 1996).…”

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Investigating Late Neolithic ceramics in the northern Levant: the view from Shir

Nieuwenhuyse

Daskiewicz

Schneider

2018

Levant

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This paper presents a review of the ceramic investigations at the Late Neolithic site of Shir. Situated in Western Syria the site occupies a central position in the so-called 'Levantine corridor', which linked the southern Levant, Central Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia in the Neolithic. The ceramic sequence covers a period of several centuries between c. 7000 and 6450 cal BC. The pottery analysis combined bulk processing in the field and archaeometric work in the laboratory to construct a viable ceramic categorization. This paper discusses long-term ceramic trends that follow the first appearance of pottery in the northern Levant, including the development of pottery containers for storage.

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New Data for the Definition of the DFBW Horizon and Its Internal Developments

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Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Amuq Valley, Hatay

Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Amuq Valley, Hatay

From Monuments to Miniatures: Emergence of Stamps and Related Image-bearing Objects during the Neolithic

Investigating Late Neolithic ceramics in the northern Levant: the view from Shir

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