New evidence on the provenance of Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware (RLW): Petrographic, elemental and Sr-Nd isotope analysis

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dc.authoridkozal, ekin/0000-0002-4427-069X
dc.authoridKibaroglu, Gubaz Mustafa/0000-0002-5294-2783
dc.contributor.authorKibaroglu, Mustafa
dc.contributor.authorKozal, Ekin
dc.contributor.authorKluegel, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorHartmann, Gerald
dc.contributor.authorMonien, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:41:20Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:41:20Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware (RLW) is a distinctive Late Bronze Age ware produced from high quality red clay with an array of particular forms and a polished red surface. It has a wide distribution in the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly including central Anatolia, Cilicia, Cyprus, the Levant, and Egypt, indicating the important role of the ware in displaying possible cultural, commercial, and political interconnections. Its unique and identical character throughout its distribution area still complicates the identification of its provenance. Therefore, it has been the subject of numerous archaeological and archaeometric studies. In previous archaeological studies, a Cypriot origin for the ware has been proposed and generally accepted. In comparison to archaeological research, Cyprus and/or Anatolia are suggested as the origin of RLW in previous archaeometric studies. However, the latest discoveries from Anatolia suggests that the production place of RLW could be located in Rough Cilicia in southern Anatolia, as new RLW forms have been identified at Kilise Tepe level III (1500-1300 BCE). This study focuses on the newly identified RLW forms of jar and its subgroups excavated at Kilise Tepe, level III (c. 1500-1300 BCE). We report archaeometric results of petrographic, trace element and Sr (Sr-87/ Sr-86) and Nd (Nd-143/Nd-144) isotopic analysis of RLW samples, not only from Kilise Tepe in southern Anatolia but also from Bogazkoy/Hattusa in central Anatolia, and Tell Atchana/Alalakh in the Amuq Plain as comparative material. Archaeometric results suggest that the new RLW forms with their subgroups belong to the main chemical and mineralogical corpus of RLW. These results support the thesis that Kilise Tepe is the site with the largest variety of RLW forms, and also the hypothesis that the origin of RLW might be in Rough Cilicia in southern Anatolia. A few samples from each site were defined as outliers, indicating that there are small amounts of RLW produced from other clays, the sources of which remain unidentified.
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [KI 1828/2-2]
dc.description.sponsorshipWe would like to express our gratitude for their collaboration and contributions to the project to: Jurgen Seeher, Andreas Schachner (German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul, (DAI)), Nicholas Postgate (Cambridge University), Gursel Sunal (Technical University of Istanbul), Mirko Novak (University of Bern), Aslihan Yener (Columbia and New York Universities), Ilhame Ozturk, former director of Archaeological Museum Silifke (Mersin) as well as Archaeological Museums of Corum and Hatay. We thank also Selim Yildiz and Nurettin Bataray (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University) for drawings of the analyzed sherds. We thank also the two anonymous reviewers for their careful and constructive reviews of our paper. This study is a part of a research project at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tubingen funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (ID: KI 1828/2-2).
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.004
dc.identifier.endpage433
dc.identifier.issn2352-409X
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85061378777
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage412
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/24106
dc.identifier.volume24
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000466995200040
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Archaeological Science-Reports
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectEastern Mediterranean archaeology
dc.subjectLate Bronze Age Red Lustrous Wheel-made ware
dc.subjectArchaeometry
dc.subjectCeramic provenance study
dc.subjectSr and Nd isotope analysis
dc.titleNew evidence on the provenance of Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware (RLW): Petrographic, elemental and Sr-Nd isotope analysis
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