Survey of the Archaeological Landscape of Uşakli / Kuşakli Höyük (Yozgat)

Mazzoni, Silvia; D'Agostino, Anacleto; Orsi, Valentina

doi:10.2143/ana.36.0.2049241

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“…Çadır Höyük, for example, sits among a network of peer sites, which included the larger Late Roman settlement at Kerkenes (Summers 2001), as well as settlements in the vicinity of Ușaklı Höyük and Alişar. In antiquity, these were connected by the Tavium-Sebasteia roadthe same one that runs between Yozgat and Sivas today (Mazzoni et al, 2010).…”

Section: Late Roman/earlymentioning

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Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia

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Between the foundation of Constantinople as capital of the eastern half of the Roman Empire in 330 CE and its sack by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 CE, the Byzantine Empire underwent a full cycle from political-economic stability, through rural insecurity and agrarian decline, and back to renewed prosperity. These stages plausibly correspond to the phases of over-extension (K), 2 subsequent release (Ω) and recovery (α) of the Adaptive Cycle in Socio-Ecological Systems. Here we track and partly quantify the consequences of those changes in different regions of Anatolia, firstly for rural settlement (via regional archaeological surveys) and secondly for land cover (via pollen analysis). We also examine the impact of climate changes on the agrarian system. While individual histories vary, the archaeological record shows a major demographic decline between ca .650 and ca. 900 CE in central and southwestern Anatolia, which was then a frontier zone between Byzantine and Arab armies. In these regions, and also in northwest Anatolia, century-scale trends in pollen indicate a substantial decline in the production of cereal and tree crops, and a smaller decline in pastoral activity. During the subsequent recovery (α) phase after 900 CE there was strong regional differentiation, with central Anatolia moving to a new economic system based on agro-pastoralism, while lowland areas of northern and western Anatolia returned to the cultivation of commercial crops such as olive trees. The extent of recovery in the agrarian economy was broadly predictable by the magnitude of its preceding decline, but the trajectories of recovery varied between different regions.

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Section: Late Roman/earlymentioning

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Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia

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“…Peasnall & Algaze 2010: 169). Smaller sites present fewer challenges to intensive survey (Mazzoni et al 2010), but even in these cases, TLTP had unusually high resolution and comprehensiveness.…”

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Exploring the lower settlements of Iron Age capitals in Anatolia and Syria

Osborne

2017

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“…The site included phases from the Chalcolithic to the modern Turkish period, with few apparent hiatuses in occupation. Although the Chalcolithic levels appear to be substantial (Gorny 1990;Martino 2014;von der Osten 1937), the main focus of excavations was on the Hittite levels of the Late Bronze Age. The post-Hittite, referred to as 'Phrygian', phases were published in 1937 with a contribution by Bittel on his excavations of the high mound or citadel.…”

Section: The Sitementioning

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In search of Tabal, central Anatolia: Iron Age interaction at Alişar Höyük

2023

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Trajectories of social complexity following socio-political collapse have provided fertile ground for new theoretical and methodological perspectives in archaeology. Here we investigate ceramics from the site of Alişar Höyük, a settlement that was likely part of the Iron Age polity of Tabal. Best known from Assyrian texts, Tabal emerged in central Anatolia after the Late Bronze Age Hittite collapse, but its structure and operation remain enigmatic. Excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, a large sample of ceramics from Alişar has since been curated at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Using multiple perspectives on this Middle Iron Age ceramic sample, we explore the political and economic structures at this site in terms of its interaction sphere. Our results suggest that if Alişar was part of Tabal, by the Middle Iron Age this polity was highly intra-regionally integrated, competitive and heterarchical.

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Survey of the Archaeological Landscape of Uşakli / Kuşakli Höyük (Yozgat)

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia

Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia

Exploring the lower settlements of Iron Age capitals in Anatolia and Syria

In search of Tabal, central Anatolia: Iron Age interaction at Alişar Höyük

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