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Lesson 7.12: The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Eras in Western Turkey

Lesson 7 Bibliography: Western Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean in the Early Bronze Age

S. Blum, “The Middle Chalcolithic Cultural Sequence of the Troad (Northwest Anatolia): Chronological and Interregional Assessment,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 125-155.

A. Çilingiroglou, Z. Derin, E. Abay, H. Saglamtimur, and I. Kayan, Ulucak Höyük: Excavations Conducted between 1995 and 2002 [ANES Supplement 15] (Louvain 2004).

C. Çilingiroglou, “Of Stamps, Loom Weights and Spindle Whorls: Contextual Evidence on the Function(s) of Neolithic Stamps from Ulucak, Izmir, Turkey,” JMA 22(2009) 3-27.

C. Çilingiroglou, The Neolithic Pottery of Ulucak in Aegean Turkey: Organization of Production, Interregional Comparisons, and Relative Chronology [BAR-IS 2426] (Oxford 2012).

B. S. Düring, The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (Cambridge 2011).

B. S. Düring, “Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic,” in S. R. Steadman and G. McMahon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (Oxford 2011) 796-812.

R. Duru, Kuruçay Höyük II: Results of the Excavations 1978-1988: The Late Chalcolithic ad Early Bronze Settlements (Ankara 1996).

T. Efe, “Chalcolithic Pottery from the Mounds of Aslanapa (Kütahya) and Kinik (Bilecik),” Anatolica 19(1993) 20-31.

T. Efe, “Recent Investigation in Inland Northwest Anatolia and its Contribution to Early Balkan-Anatolian Connections,” in S. Hiller and V. Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III: Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa (Vienna 2000) 171-184.

T. Efe, The Salvage Excavation at Orman Fidanligi, A Chalcolithic Site in Inland Northwestern Anatolia (Istanbul 2001).

T. Efe and D. S. M. Ay, “Early Bronze I Pottery from Küllüoba near Seyitgazi, Eskisehir,” Anatolica Antiqua 8(2000) 1-87.

T. Efe and M. Türkteki, “Inland Western Anatolia in the Pre-Bronze Age,” in V. Sahoglou and P. Sotirakopoulou (eds.), Across the Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Istanbul 2011) 192-197.

B. Erdogu, “Architecture and Organisation of Early Chalcolithic Settlement of Ugurlu (5500-4900 cal. BC) on the Island of Gökçeada,” in S. W. E. Blum, T. Efe, T. I. Kienlin, and E. Pernicka (eds.), From Past to Present. Studies in Memory of Manfred O. Korfmann (Bonn 2020) 75-80.

C. Eslick, Elmali-Karatas I: The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods: Bagbasi and Other Sites (Bryn Mawr 1992).

C. Eslick, Elmali-Karatas 5: The Early Bronze Age Pottery of Karatas: Habitation Deposits (Oxford 2009).

D. H. French, “Late Chalcolithic Pottery in Northwest Turkey and the Aegean,”AnatSt11(1961) 99-141.

D. H. French, “Prehistoric Sites in Northwest Anatolia I. The Iznik Area,”AnatSt17(1967) 49-100.

D. H. French, “Prehistoric Sites in Northwest Anatolia II. The Balikesir and Akhisar/Manisa Areas,”AnatSt19(1969) 41-98.

D. H. French, “Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery of Southwest Anatolia,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 197-202.

U. Gabriel, “Mitteilung zum Stand der Neolithikumsforschung in der Umgebung von Troja (Kumtepe 1993-1995; Besik-Sivritepe 1983-1984, 1987, 1998-1999)," Studia Troica 10 (2000) 233-238.

U. Gabriel, “Die ersten menschlichen Spuren in der Umgebung Troias: Grabungsergebnisse am Kumtepe und Besik-Sivritepe,” in M. Korfmann et al., Troia – Traum und Wirklichkeit (Stuttgart 2001) 343-346.

U. Gabriel, R. Aslan, and S. W. Blum, “Alacaligöl: Eine neuentdeckte Siedlung des 5.Jahrtausends v. Chr. in der Troas,” Studia Troica 14(2004) 121-133.

A. Galik, “Late Chalcolithic Subsistence Strategies on the Basis of Two Examples: The Çukuriçi Höyük in Western Anatolia and Barcin Höyük in Northwestern Anatolia,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 385-394.

C. Gerber, “Iasos, the Carian Chalcolithic and its Relations with Northern Central Anatolia,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 105-124.

S. Günel, “New Contributions Regarding Prehistoric Cultures in the Meander Region: Çine-Tepecik,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 83-103.

Ö. Höckmann, “Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Idols of Western Anatolia,” in J. Thimme (ed.), The Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C. [trans. P. Getz-Preziosi] (Chicago 1977) 373-403.

B. Horejs, “Proto-Urbanisation without Urban Centres? A Model of Transformation for the Izmir Region in the 4th Millennium BC,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 15-41.

M. Kibaroglu and S. W. E. Blum, “Petrographic Analysis of Chalcolithic Ceramics from Alacaligöl, Northwestern Turkey,” in S. W. E. Blum, T. Efe, T. I. Kienlin, and E. Pernicka (eds.), From Past to Present. Studies in Memory of Manfred O. Korfmann (Bonn 2020) 81-108.

O. Kouka, “Past Stories – Modern Narratives: Cultural Diaogues between East Aegean Islands and the West Anatolian Mainland in the 4th Millennium BC,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 43-63.

S. Lloyd and J. Mellaart, Beycesultan I: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Levels (London 1962).

M. Mehofer, “Metallurgy during the Chalcolithic and the Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 463-490.

J. Mellaart, Excavations at Hacilar (Edinburgh 1970).

M. Özdogan, “Pendik: A Neolithic Site of Fikirtepe Culture in the Marmara Region,” in R. M. Boemer and H. Hauptmann (eds.), Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Kleinasiens. Festschrift für Kurt Bittel (Mainz 1983) 401-412.

M. Özdogan, “Vinça and Anatolia: A New Look at a Very Old Problem,” Anatolia 19(1993) 173-193.

M. Özdogan and M. Basgelen (eds.), Neolithic in Turkey (Istanbul 1999).

H. Parzinger, Studien zur Chronologie und Kulturgeschichte der Jungstein-, Kupfer-, und Frühbronzezeit zwischen Karpaten und Mittlerem Taurus (Mainz 1993).

H. Parzinger, “Zur Zeitstellung der Büyükkaya-Ware: Bemerkungen zur vorbronzezeitlichen Kulturabfolge Zentralanatoliens,” Anatolica 19(1993) 211-229.

E. Pernicka, “The Development of Metallurgy in Western Anatolia, the Aegean and Southeastern Europe before Troy,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 447-461.

J. Roodenberg (ed.), The Ilipinar Excavations I: Five Seasons of Fieldwork in NW Anatolia, 1987-91 (Leiden 1995).

J. Roodenberg and L. C. Thissen (eds.), The Ilipinar Excavations II (Leiden 2001).

J. Roodenberg  and S. A. Roodenberg (eds.), Life and Death in a Prehistoric Settlement in Northwestern Anatolia. The Ilipinar Excavations III (Leiden 2008).

V. Sahoglu and R. Tuncel, “New Insights into the Late Chalcolithic of Coastal Western Anatolia: A View from Bakla Tepe, Izmir,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 65-82.

U.-D. Schoop, Das anatolische Chalkolithikum: Eine chronologische Untersuchung zur vorbronzezeitlichen Kultursequenz im nördlichen Zentralanatolien und den angrenzenden Gebieten (Remshalden 2005).

U.-D. Schoop, “Weaving Society in Late Chalcolithic Anatolia: Textile Production and Social Strategies in the 4th Millennium B.C.,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 421-446.

J. Seeher, Demircihüyük. Die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 1975-1978. III,1: Die Keramik 1A: Die neolithische und chalkolithische Keramik; Die Keramik 1B: Die frühbronzezeitliche Keramik der älteren Phasen (bis Phase G) (Mainz 1987).

J. Seeher, “Prähistorische Funde aus Gülpinar/Chryse,” AA (1987) 533-556.

T. Takaoglu, “Chalcolithic Marble Working at Kulaksizlar in Western Anatolia,” Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology 5(2002) 71-93.

T. Takaoglu, “Interactions in the Fifth Millennium B.C. Eastern Aegean: New Evidence,” Anatolia Antiqua 12(2004) 1-6.

T. Takaoglu, A Chalcolithic Marble Workshop at Kulaksizlar in Western Anatolia: An Analysis of Production and Craft Specialization [BAR-IS 1358] (Oxford 2005).

T. Takaoglu, “The Late Neolithic in the Eastern Aegean: Excavations at Gülpinar in the Troad,” Hesperia 75(2006) 289-315.

R. Tuncel, “Pre-Bronze Age Western Anatolia,” in V. Sahoglou and P. Sotirakopoulou (eds.), Across the Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Istanbul 2011) 124-128.

R. Tuncel, “The Late Chalcolithic Period of Western Anatolia in Perspective: New Data from Bakla Tepe and Liman Tepe,” in E. Pernicka, S. Ünlüsoy, and S. Blum (eds.), Early Bronze Age Troy: Chronology, Cultural Development and Interregional Contacts (Tübingen, forthcoming).

J. Yakar, The Later Prehistory of Anatolia. The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I-II (Oxford 1985).


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