Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State

Papers Presented at a Workshop Held at the 11th ICAANE (München 4 April 2018) and Additional Contributions

Federico Manuelli, Dirk Paul Mielke, Federico Manuelli, Dirk Paul Mielke

• Publisher: Archaeopress Access Archaeology
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781803272023
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State is the result of a workshop organized by the editors at the 11th ICAANE held in Munich in 2018 with additional contributions presented by renowned scholars working on this topic. The Late Bronze Age in the Ancient Near East is generally marked by a massive decline in the occurrence of painted pottery and a clear dominance of plain ceramics. This is especially evident when looking at Anatolia. Here, the presence of simple undecorated ceramics is considered as the main distinguishing trait of the dominance of the Hittite State and its material culture. Nevertheless, at the margins of the empire, especially in Southern and South-Eastern as well as Northern Anatolia, painted ceramics are frequently attested and, during recent years, new findings have come to light from a number of excavations. However, a comprehensive analysis of this material has not yet been accomplished. The intent of this volume is to break through the boundaries usually imposed by the study of 2nd millennium BC pottery production in Anatolia and to reconstruct a comprehensive scenario concerning the appearance, evolution, and related historical meanings of these painted pottery traditions. To this end, 12 papers of leading specialists working on relevant material have been collected in this book offering, for the first time, the possibility of a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of painted pottery in the 2nd millennium BC.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction – Throwing Some Colour on a Plain World
• Geometric Painted Pottery of the 2nd Millennium BC in the Central Black Sea Region. A Contribution to the Archaeology of the Kaška
• Archaeometric Investigations of Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery from Oymaağaç Höyük/Nerik, Central Black Sea Region, Turkey
• The Painted Pottery Tradition in Inland South-Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age
• Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery and its Contextual Relationship to the Hittite Levels at Ovaören
• Late Bronze Age Chronology and Painted Pottery in Inland Southern Anatolia
• The Cross-Hatched Red Painted Pottery Tradition at Mersin-Yumuktepe
• Style as Representation of Political Hegemony? A View from the Edge of the Hittite Kingdom
• Red Band Decorated Pottery from Tepebağ Höyük/Adana
• Painted Pottery Traditions at Sirkeli Höyük in the 2nd Millennium BC
• Just a Matter of Style? Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions in the Upper Euphrates Region: Origins and Significance
• Archaeometric and Technological Investigations of the Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery from Arslantepe (Malatya, Eastern Turkey)
• Painted Pottery Traditions of Late Bronze Alalakh
• Some Final Remarks
• Index