Cedrus

Yazarlar: Yasin Cemre DERİCİ, Erkan GÜRÇAL

Konular:Tarih

Anahtar Kelimeler:Uğurlu-Zeytinlik,Pattern-Burnished Pottery,Middle Chalcolithic,Western Anatolia Architecture

Özet: This study examines the V. millenium B.C pattern-burnish decorated pottery from the settlement of Uğurlu-Zeytinlik on Gökçeada. A total of 74 sherds and 1 whole pot with pattern-burnished decoration were found in one context in Phase III and two other contexts related with Phase II, all from the western part of the mound. Based upon the contexts of recovery, it could be argued that the pattern-burnish decorated pottery tradition was in use at the site from ca. 5000 B.C to ca. 4300 B.C. The discovery of a large number of pattern-burnish decorated sherds along with eared-pots typical of the Phase III and other pottery types peculiar to the Chalcolithic of Western Anatolian sites and of the Eastern Aegean Islands in pits imply that Uğurlu might have also been inhabited between 4900-4500 B.C, a period which was previously regarded as a cultural lacuna at the site. Although there are a number of stylistical differences, pattern-burnish decorated pot sherds from Uğurlu have close parallels among the pottery repertoire of the sites of the Eastern Aegean Island and of Western Anatolian littoral. Ultimately, it can be argued that Phase II occupation at Uğurlu was also a part of large cultural interaction sphere that existed during this millennium.

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