VŠIANSKÝ, Dalibor, Rana ÖZBAL, Miroslava GREGEROVÁ and Jindřich KYNICKÝ. Interregional contacts in the Halaf Period: archaeometric analyses of pottery from Tell Kurdu, Turkey. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Heidelberg: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2019, vol. 11, No 4, p. 1199-1219. ISSN 1866-9557. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0597-7.
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Original name Interregional contacts in the Halaf Period: archaeometric analyses of pottery from Tell Kurdu, Turkey
Name in Czech Interregionální kontakty v Halafském období: archeometrické analýzy keramiky z Tel Kurdu v Turecku
Authors VŠIANSKÝ, Dalibor (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Rana ÖZBAL, Miroslava GREGEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jindřich KYNICKÝ (203 Czech Republic).
Edition Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Heidelberg, SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2019, 1866-9557.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10505 Geology
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.063
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/19:00108814
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0597-7
UT WoS 000463617700005
Keywords in English Tell Kurdu; Halaf Period; Pottery; X-ray diffraction; SEM; WDS; Petrography; Microscopy
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Abstract
Dating to the sixth millennium BC, the Halaf Period of northern Mesopotamia has long been considered a time of intense interaction and communication. This claim is based on the remarkable similarity that Halaf Period ceramic styles and especially painted pottery motifs show even over great distances. Analyzed for this paper are a series of potsherds from the contemporaneous levels of the site of Tell Kurdu located in the Amuq Valley of southern Turkey. A range of techniques including X-ray diffraction, wet chemical analysis, scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis, and petrography have been used in order to assess the source materials and to infer evidence for imports. Results show that although painted ceramic motifs at Tell Kurdu are Halaf-like in their general style, they are locally made. Moreover, at least one unpainted sherd may indicate that the sixth millennium inhabitants of Tell Kurdu must also have been involved in an inter-regional trade network. The latter conclusion mirrors similar results by other researchers who have consistently shown that ceramics were regularly traded across northern Mesopotamia in the sixth millennium BC.
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