Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond

Adnan Baysal

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781789699272

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies. Lithic studies are mostly conducted on a site by site basis, and specialist studies on lithics tend to focus primarily on technology and typology. As a result, information acquired through lithic research is presented as the identifier of the particular site with the addition of brief local correlations. This creates isolated islands of information. This volume is intended to bring these islands together to build the bigger picture, showcasing the fluidity of technological change, transitional cultural developments, and cultural formation by focusing on the interrelations between sites, localities and regions. Individually and collectively the wide range of papers in the volume give perspectives on Neolithization as seen through stone technologies, highlighting both regional trends and interregional relationships. The volume lays the foundations for creating an integrated understanding of Neolithic lithic technologies across the broad geographical regions of Turkey, Greece and the Balkans.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents Page
• Authors
• Foreword
• Connecting Lithics: An Introduction to Lithic Studies in Anatolia and Beyond
• Raw Material Matters
• Use-wear Analysis of Lithic Tools: Technical Processes and Cultural Developments in Anatolia
• The Projectile Points of Neolithic Çatalhöyük: A Contextual Multi-Attribute Analysis
• The Importance of Lithics in Determining the Economic Models and Lifestyles of Prehistoric Societies: The Kanlıtaş Höyük Example
• The Lithic Assemblage of Suluin Cave in Antalya (sw Anatolia)
• Lithic Assemblages from the Marmara Region: 7th -3rd mill. BC
• Yeşilova Höyük Neolithic Period Chipped Stone Industry
• The Techno-Typology of The Projectile Points of the Neolithic Settlement of Ege Gübre (Izmir/Turkey)
• Interpreting Chipped Stone Assemblages of the Neolithic in Western Anatolia – A Conceptual View
• Looking West: Central Anatolian Obsidian in the Western Anatolian Peninsula and Eastern Aegean
• Viewing Melian Neolithic Obsidian Networks from the Western Side of the Aegean sea (Greece): Distribution Parameters and Data Reconsidered
• Stone Technology Under the Microscope: the Contribution of Microwear Analysis of Ground Stone Tools to the Understanding of Daily Activities
• On the Function and Ethnographic Analogies of North East Aegean Ground Stone Tools
• General Assessment of the Ground Stone Industries of the Marmara Region
• So Close, Yet So Far Away: the Ground Stone Tool Assemblages from the Two Neighbouring Settlements of Kleitos, North-western Greece
• Abrasive Stone Tools in the Neolithic of Serbia: from Recognition to Publication