Rana Özbal
Biographic Data
| ID | 86811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rana Özbal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rana |
| FAMILY NAME | Özbal |
| SIGNATURE | ÖZBAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6765-2765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding a first attempt at pottery
This study examines clay fragments found at Çemka Höyük, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Mardin, Türkiye (tenth millennium BC). Analysis of mineral inclusions in the clay matrix indicates that these fragments may have been deliberately fired, representing an early example of ceramic technology in South-west Asia. The diversity of forms identified and their likely uses suggest, the authors argue, a formative phase in ceramic innovation during whic…
Diet and Mobility in Byzantine Western Anatolia
This study presents the integrated results of stable carbon ( δ 13 C) and nitrogen ( δ 15 N) isotope and aDNA analyses, conducted to examine dietary and mobility practices in two mid- to late Byzantine communities in western Anatolia: the coastal cosmopolitan site of Kadıkalesi Anaia and the rural inland settlement of Barcın Höyük. Isotopic data from thirty-eight individuals indicate that both populations primarily consumed terrestrial C3-based r…
Cradled by architecture
Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Barcın Höyük and Lepenski Vir through the concept of delayed personhood, namely the belief that young children were partially or not yet recognized as persons. Both sites provide extensive data on burial locations, including age, sex, and biological relat…
Stable isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia
This paper presents the results of stable carbon ( δ 13 C) and nitrogen ( δ 15 N) isotopic analysis of bulk bone collagen from faunal remains from the Bronze Age site of Kaymakçı in western Anatolia. We use the isotopic values in conjunction with zooarchaeological data and contextual archaeological information to examine human-environment interactions; in particular, animal management and husbandry. Middle and Late Bronze Age agricultural systems…
Geochemical Analyses to Make the Invisible More Concrete
This study focuses on understanding the use of space at Aşıklı Höyük in central Turkey through the geochemical analyses of five overlying floors of a quadrangular mudbrick building dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period. The research allows us to follow the process on a micro-scale, from the design and construction of the structure to its abandonment. We aim to perceive the role of plastered floors to gain insights into the producers and user…
Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms
In this paper, I reconsider the meaning of decorated objects like painted pottery and seal impressions with geometric and image-bearing motifs in prehistoric contexts. In northern Mesopotamia, the 6th millennium b.c., known more broadly as the Halaf Period, is a time when pottery with intricate painted motifs and stamp seals of a remarkably uniform style comprised a notable component of the cultural assemblage across a wide expanse. Following Alf…
Caution! Contents were hot
Understanding exposure of pottery vessels to fire is an important question in the agenda of researchers studying how prehistoric pottery was used to prepare food and the reasons leading to its widespread adoption across the world. In the case lipid residues from cooking, making sense of the range of biochemical compounds synthesised by the application of significant amounts of heat (i.e > 100 °C) to lipid residues can reveal different use pattern…
Different manifestations of Neolithization in Northwest Anatolia
The Neolithic way of life was first established in Northwest Anatolia before the middle of the 7th millennium BC. The recently excavated sites of Barcın Hoyuk and Bahcelievler have yielded archaeological evidence for the earliest Neolithic levels in the region and provide new archaeobotanical datasets. To compare different adaptations to the changes brought on by the Neolithization processes, we studied 348 archaeobotanical samples from Phases VI…
A petrographic study of selected soils/sediments from sixth millennium BCE levels of the Tell Kurdu site
Concluding the Neolithic
The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the demise of the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life. The period is marked by significant social and economic transformations of local communities, as manifested in a new spatial organization, patterns of architecture, burial practices, and in chipped stone and pottery manufacture. This volume has three foci. The first concerns the character of these changes in different parts of…
Barcın Höyük, a seventh millennium settlement in the Eastern Marmara region of Turkey
Recent excavations at the site of Barcın Höyük provide a detailed view of a settlement founded and inhabited during the early stages of the Neolithic of the Marmara Region of northwestern Anatolia. The occupation history of the site complements and extends further back in time the regional sequence as it had been established for the eastern Marmara Region on the basis of excavations at nearby Mentese, Aktopraklık and Ilıpınar, and Fikirtepe and P…
Interregional contacts in the Halaf Period
Clay preparation and function of the first ceramics in north-west Anatolia
Neolithisation of the Aegean and Southeast Europe during the 6600–6000 calBC period of Rapid Climate Change
In extension of the recently established ‘Rapid Climate Change (RCC) Neolithisation Model’ (Clare 2013), in the present paper we demonstrate the existence of a remarkable coincidence between the exact (decadel-scale) entry and departure dates of the Neolithic into/from the Aegean (~6600/6050 calBC) with begin/end of RCC-conditions
The Late Chalcolithic Settlement of Barcin Höyük
This report presents the Late Chalcolithic levels at Barc n Hoyuk, located in the Yeni ehir Basin in the eastern part of the province of Bursa (figure 1). Excavations began in 2005 and earlier reports have appeared in this journal and elsewhere (Roodenberg, van As and Alpaslan Roodenberg 2008; Gerritsen and Ozbal 2008, 2009, 2010). The Barc n Hoyuk Excavations take place in the context of the long-term regional research project ‘Early Farming Com…
Halaf Ve Obeyd Dönemleri̇ni̇n Toplumsal Örgütlenme Geli̇şkenli̇ği̇ Açisindan Karşilaştirilmasi Ve Tell Kurdu Örneği̇
While the Uruk Period is generally accepted as the earliest state society in the Near East, assessing the social, political and economic organization of the antecedent Halaf and Ubaid phases has been a matter of longstanding debate. Over-schematized evolutionary categories like tribes or chiefdoms provide little resolve in characterizing the socio-political complexity of Near Eastern prehistory because they fail to account for the variability th…
Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Amuq Valley, Hatay
A decace of regional survey between 1995 and 2005 in the Amuq Valley in the Hatay province of southern Turkey (fig. 1), following seminal work done in the 1930s (Braidwood 1937), has produced extensive datasets to study the history of human occupation and landscape development in the region. The main insights from the work done by the Amuq Valley Regional Project (AVRP) have been presented recently by Casana and Wilkinson (2005a, in Yener 2005), …
A Tale of Two Oikumenai
Settlement and Society
Demi̇rköy-Samakocuk Demi̇r Dökümhanesi̇
2002 yilindi baslatilan disiplinler arasi Demirkoy Endustri Arkeolojisi projesi kapsaminda yapilan calismalar Buyuk Dokumhane Kompleksi ve bunun 250 m kadar batisinda bulunan kucuk islikte gerceklestirilmistir. Gec Osmanli Donemine tarihlenen bu dokumhane Kirklareli Demirkoy Ilcesinde yer almaktadir. Arsiv calismalari ile desteklenmekte olan kazilarin ana amaci burada gerceklestirilmis olan demir uretim teknolojisinin sosyo-ekonomik boyutlarini b…
Tell Kurdu Excavations 2001
Tell Kurdu Excavations 1999
Neolithisation of the Aegean and Southeast Europe during the 6600–6000 calBC period of Rapid Climate Change
In extension of the recently established ‘Rapid Climate Change (RCC) Neolithisation Model’ (Clare 2013), in the present paper we demonstrate the existence of a remarkable coincidence between the exact (decadel-scale) entry and departure dates of the Neolithic into/from the Aegean (~6600/6050 calBC) with begin/end of RCC-conditions
Tell Kurdu Excavations 2001
Tell Kurdu Excavations 1999
Interregional contacts in the Halaf Period
Caution! Contents were hot
Understanding exposure of pottery vessels to fire is an important question in the agenda of researchers studying how prehistoric pottery was used to prepare food and the reasons leading to its widespread adoption across the world. In the case lipid residues from cooking, making sense of the range of biochemical compounds synthesised by the application of significant amounts of heat (i.e > 100 °C) to lipid residues can reveal different use pattern…
Stable isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia
This paper presents the results of stable carbon ( δ 13 C) and nitrogen ( δ 15 N) isotopic analysis of bulk bone collagen from faunal remains from the Bronze Age site of Kaymakçı in western Anatolia. We use the isotopic values in conjunction with zooarchaeological data and contextual archaeological information to examine human-environment interactions; in particular, animal management and husbandry. Middle and Late Bronze Age agricultural systems…
Different manifestations of Neolithization in Northwest Anatolia
The Neolithic way of life was first established in Northwest Anatolia before the middle of the 7th millennium BC. The recently excavated sites of Barcın Hoyuk and Bahcelievler have yielded archaeological evidence for the earliest Neolithic levels in the region and provide new archaeobotanical datasets. To compare different adaptations to the changes brought on by the Neolithization processes, we studied 348 archaeobotanical samples from Phases VI…
Clay preparation and function of the first ceramics in north-west Anatolia
Tell Kurdu Excavations 1999
Tell Kurdu Excavations 2001
A Tale of Two Oikumenai
Settlement and Society
Demi̇rköy-Samakocuk Demi̇r Dökümhanesi̇
2002 yilindi baslatilan disiplinler arasi Demirkoy Endustri Arkeolojisi projesi kapsaminda yapilan calismalar Buyuk Dokumhane Kompleksi ve bunun 250 m kadar batisinda bulunan kucuk islikte gerceklestirilmistir. Gec Osmanli Donemine tarihlenen bu dokumhane Kirklareli Demirkoy Ilcesinde yer almaktadir. Arsiv calismalari ile desteklenmekte olan kazilarin ana amaci burada gerceklestirilmis olan demir uretim teknolojisinin sosyo-ekonomik boyutlarini b…
Settlement and Landscape Transformations in the Amuq Valley, Hatay
A decace of regional survey between 1995 and 2005 in the Amuq Valley in the Hatay province of southern Turkey (fig. 1), following seminal work done in the 1930s (Braidwood 1937), has produced extensive datasets to study the history of human occupation and landscape development in the region. The main insights from the work done by the Amuq Valley Regional Project (AVRP) have been presented recently by Casana and Wilkinson (2005a, in Yener 2005), …
The Late Chalcolithic Settlement of Barcin Höyük
This report presents the Late Chalcolithic levels at Barc n Hoyuk, located in the Yeni ehir Basin in the eastern part of the province of Bursa (figure 1). Excavations began in 2005 and earlier reports have appeared in this journal and elsewhere (Roodenberg, van As and Alpaslan Roodenberg 2008; Gerritsen and Ozbal 2008, 2009, 2010). The Barc n Hoyuk Excavations take place in the context of the long-term regional research project ‘Early Farming Com…
Halaf Ve Obeyd Dönemleri̇ni̇n Toplumsal Örgütlenme Geli̇şkenli̇ği̇ Açisindan Karşilaştirilmasi Ve Tell Kurdu Örneği̇
While the Uruk Period is generally accepted as the earliest state society in the Near East, assessing the social, political and economic organization of the antecedent Halaf and Ubaid phases has been a matter of longstanding debate. Over-schematized evolutionary categories like tribes or chiefdoms provide little resolve in characterizing the socio-political complexity of Near Eastern prehistory because they fail to account for the variability th…
Neolithisation of the Aegean and Southeast Europe during the 6600–6000 calBC period of Rapid Climate Change
In extension of the recently established ‘Rapid Climate Change (RCC) Neolithisation Model’ (Clare 2013), in the present paper we demonstrate the existence of a remarkable coincidence between the exact (decadel-scale) entry and departure dates of the Neolithic into/from the Aegean (~6600/6050 calBC) with begin/end of RCC-conditions
Clay preparation and function of the first ceramics in north-west Anatolia
Concluding the Neolithic
The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the demise of the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life. The period is marked by significant social and economic transformations of local communities, as manifested in a new spatial organization, patterns of architecture, burial practices, and in chipped stone and pottery manufacture. This volume has three foci. The first concerns the character of these changes in different parts of…
Barcın Höyük, a seventh millennium settlement in the Eastern Marmara region of Turkey
Recent excavations at the site of Barcın Höyük provide a detailed view of a settlement founded and inhabited during the early stages of the Neolithic of the Marmara Region of northwestern Anatolia. The occupation history of the site complements and extends further back in time the regional sequence as it had been established for the eastern Marmara Region on the basis of excavations at nearby Mentese, Aktopraklık and Ilıpınar, and Fikirtepe and P…
Interregional contacts in the Halaf Period
A petrographic study of selected soils/sediments from sixth millennium BCE levels of the Tell Kurdu site
Different manifestations of Neolithization in Northwest Anatolia
The Neolithic way of life was first established in Northwest Anatolia before the middle of the 7th millennium BC. The recently excavated sites of Barcın Hoyuk and Bahcelievler have yielded archaeological evidence for the earliest Neolithic levels in the region and provide new archaeobotanical datasets. To compare different adaptations to the changes brought on by the Neolithization processes, we studied 348 archaeobotanical samples from Phases VI…
Caution! Contents were hot
Understanding exposure of pottery vessels to fire is an important question in the agenda of researchers studying how prehistoric pottery was used to prepare food and the reasons leading to its widespread adoption across the world. In the case lipid residues from cooking, making sense of the range of biochemical compounds synthesised by the application of significant amounts of heat (i.e > 100 °C) to lipid residues can reveal different use pattern…
Geochemical Analyses to Make the Invisible More Concrete
This study focuses on understanding the use of space at Aşıklı Höyük in central Turkey through the geochemical analyses of five overlying floors of a quadrangular mudbrick building dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period. The research allows us to follow the process on a micro-scale, from the design and construction of the structure to its abandonment. We aim to perceive the role of plastered floors to gain insights into the producers and user…
Objects of Visual Representation and Local Cultural Idioms
In this paper, I reconsider the meaning of decorated objects like painted pottery and seal impressions with geometric and image-bearing motifs in prehistoric contexts. In northern Mesopotamia, the 6th millennium b.c., known more broadly as the Halaf Period, is a time when pottery with intricate painted motifs and stamp seals of a remarkably uniform style comprised a notable component of the cultural assemblage across a wide expanse. Following Alf…
Cradled by architecture
Children, especially infants, are integral to human communities, but how they are perceived varies across societies. This study examines infancy at the late seventh millennium Neolithic sites of Barcın Höyük and Lepenski Vir through the concept of delayed personhood, namely the belief that young children were partially or not yet recognized as persons. Both sites provide extensive data on burial locations, including age, sex, and biological relat…
Stable isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia
This paper presents the results of stable carbon ( δ 13 C) and nitrogen ( δ 15 N) isotopic analysis of bulk bone collagen from faunal remains from the Bronze Age site of Kaymakçı in western Anatolia. We use the isotopic values in conjunction with zooarchaeological data and contextual archaeological information to examine human-environment interactions; in particular, animal management and husbandry. Middle and Late Bronze Age agricultural systems…
Understanding a first attempt at pottery
This study examines clay fragments found at Çemka Höyük, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Mardin, Türkiye (tenth millennium BC). Analysis of mineral inclusions in the clay matrix indicates that these fragments may have been deliberately fired, representing an early example of ceramic technology in South-west Asia. The diversity of forms identified and their likely uses suggest, the authors argue, a formative phase in ceramic innovation during whic…
Diet and Mobility in Byzantine Western Anatolia
This study presents the integrated results of stable carbon ( δ 13 C) and nitrogen ( δ 15 N) isotope and aDNA analyses, conducted to examine dietary and mobility practices in two mid- to late Byzantine communities in western Anatolia: the coastal cosmopolitan site of Kadıkalesi Anaia and the rural inland settlement of Barcın Höyük. Isotopic data from thirty-eight individuals indicate that both populations primarily consumed terrestrial C3-based r…
Geography (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient Near East History (8 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (7 works) · Geology (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works)