The transition from the Pre-Pottery to the early Pottery Neolithic period at the site of Uğurlu on the Island of Gökçeada, NE Aegean
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.57573/be-ja.14.287-297Keywords:
Aegean islands, Initial Neolithic, Early Pottery Neolithic, Aegean NeolithicAbstract
Uğurlu, on the island of Gökçeada (Türkiye), is among the most important sites in the Aegean when considering the transition from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the early Pottery Neolithic. To date, the emergence of pottery in the Aegean has been described based on only a few sites, and except for Uğurlu, transition layers have not been adequately studied. The relatively small Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement at Uğurlu is about one metre thick and has been divided into seven layers. There is a continuous transition to the pottery layer, around 6600 cal BC. Although pottery production, which emerged without trial and error, indicates pre-existing knowledge, the first pottery was entirely of local production. This paper examines the similarities and differences in material culture between the Pre-Pottery and later Pottery Neolithic layers of Uğurlu.
Downloads
References
Burke, C., Horejs, B. 2021. Neolithic Potting Traditions at Çukuriçi Höyük. In Özbal, R., Erdalkıran, M., Tonoike, Y. (eds) Neolithic Pottery from the Near East: Production, Distribution and Use – Third International Workshop on Ceramics from the Late Neolithic Near East 7–9 March 2019 (Antalya, Turkey). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 77–88.
Çevik, Ö., Vuruşkan, O. 2020. Ulucak Höyük: On the Emergence of Pottery in Western Anatolia. Documenta Praehistorica 47, 96–109.
Çevik, Ö., Erdoğu, B. 2020. Absolute Chronology of Cultural Continiuty, Change and Break in Western Anatolia Between 6850–5460 cal BC: The Ulucak Höyük Case. Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 13.1, 77–92.
Douka, K., Efstratiou, N., Marie Hald, M., Steen Henriksen, P., Karetsou, A. 2017. Dating Knossos and the Arrival of the Earliest Neolithic in the Southern Aegean. Antiquity 91.356, 304–321.
Erdoğu, B. 2017. A Preliminary Report on the Earliest Neolithic Levels at Uğurlu on the Island of Gökçeada. Anatolica 43, 71–82.
Erdoğu, B., Atakuman, Ç. 2021. The Early Pottery from Uğurlu on the Island of Gökçeada, North-eastern Aegean. In Özbal, R., Erdalkıran, M., Tonoike, Y. (eds) Neolithic Pottery from the Near East: Production, Distribution and Use – Third International Workshop on Ceramics from the Late Neolithic Near East 7–9 March 2019 (Antalya, Turkey). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 337–343.
Erdoğu, B., Atakuman, Ç., Yücel, N. 2021. Gökçeada Uğurlu, A Preliminary Report on the 2018–2020 Field Seasons. In Steadman, S.R., MacMahon, G. (eds) The Archaeology of Anatolia Vol. IV: Recent Discoveries (2018–2020). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 21–31.
Guilbeau, D. 2018. Uğurlu-Zeytinlik Chipped Stone Industry – Synthesis 2018. Unpublished Excavation Report. Çanakkale.
Guilbeau, D., Kayacan, N., Altınbilek-Algul, Ç., Erdoğu, B., Çevik, Ö. 2019. A Comparative Study of the Initial Neolithic Chipped-stone Assemblages of Ulucak and Uğurlu. Anatolian Studies 69, 1–20.
Horejs, B., Milic, B., Ostmann, F., Thanheiser, U., Weninger, B., Galik, A. 2015. The Aegean in the Early 7th Millennium BC: Maritime Networks and Colonization. Journal of World Prehistory 28, 289–330, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-015-9090-8
Karamitrou-Mentessidi, G., Efstratiou, N., Kaczanowska, M., Kozłowski, J.K. 2016. Early Neolithic settlement of Mavropigi in western Greek Macedonia. Eurasian Prehistory 12.1–2, 47–116.
Kingery, D.W., Vandiver, P.B., Prickett, M. 1988. The Beginnings of Pyrotechnology, Part II: Production and use of Lime and Gypsum Plaster. In The Pre-Pottery Neolithic Near East. Journal of Field Archaeology 15.2, 219–243.
Pelegrin, J. 2012. New Experimental Observations for the Characterization of Pressure Blade Production Techniques. In Desrosiers, M.P. (ed.) The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: From Origin to Modern Experimentation. Boston: Springer US, 465–500.
Perlès, C. 2001. The early Neolithic in Greece: the First Farming Communities in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Perlès, C., Quiles, A., Valladas, H. 2013. Early seventh-millennium AMS Dates from Domestic Seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece). Antiquity 87, 1001–1015.
Reingruber, A. 2015. Preceramic, Aceramic or Early Ceramic? The radiocarbon dated beginning of the Neolithic in the Aegean. Documenta Praehistorica 42, 147–58.
Reingruber, A. 2018. The Transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in a Circum-Aegean Perspective: Concepts and Narratives. In Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T., Karimali E. (eds) Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 8–26.
Schmidt, K. 2012. Göbekli Tepe, A Stone Age sanctuary in South–Eastern Anatolia. Berlin: Ex Oriente.
Urem-Kotsou, D., Papaioannou, A., Papadakou, T., Saridaki, N., Intze, Z. 2014. Pottery and Stylistic Boundaries. Early and Middle Neolithic Pottery in Macedonia. In Stefani, E., Merousis, N., Dimoula, A. (eds) A century of research in Prehistoric Macedonia 1912–2012. International Conference Proceedings, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki 22–24 November 2012. Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, 505–517.
Yücel, E.N. 2023. Ege Adaları ve Batı Anadolu Kıyı Şeridi Neolitikleşme Süreci. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis. Tarihöncesi Arkeolojisi Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul: İstanbul University.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The authors retain full copyright on the articles or other publications.
All materials are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License, under which materials may be distributed or reproduced freely, provided the original is unchanged and is quoted correctly.
