Sharon R Steadman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3593883 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sharon R Steadman |
| PRENOMES | Sharon R |
| SOBRENOME | Steadman |
| ASSINATURA | STEADMAN S R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SUNY Cortland |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Empty Shelves
Archaeological investigations of ancient climate change have become an important focus for many researchers. A number of studies have focused on scientific techniques to identify the intricate details of the event, and the subsequent impact of these climatic changes on the ecological landscape. These more scientifically oriented studies have allowed the present authors to investigate a more subtle impact on the landscape: trade disruption during …
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to the concept of material religion and features editor introductions to each of its six parts, which tackle the following themes: the human body; religious archit…
Expanding the plain
This study examines how the population at Çadır Höyük on the north central Anatolian plateau modified agricultural and fuel use practices in response to rapid social and environmental change between 3600 and 2900 BCE (Late Chalcolithic and Transitional to Early Bronze periods). Using descriptive and multivariate statistics to explore data from 60 archaeobotanical samples spanning three periods of occupation (3600–3200 BCE, 3300–3100 BCE, and 3100…
Not Seeing Is Believing
Chalcolithic religious practice at the site of Çadır Höyük (central Anatolia) included the insertion of ritual deposits into the architectural fabric of the settlement, "consecrating" spaces or imbuing them with symbolic properties. These deposits are recognizable in the archaeological record by their consistent use of ritually-charged material, such as ochre, copper, human and animal bone, and certain kinds of ceramics. During the 800-year perio…
Anatolian Empires
Çadır Höyük provides rich evidence for the endurance and transformation of specific cultural features and phenomena at a rural center on the Anatolian plateau as it experienced the waxing and waning of control by imperial political powers of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Especially evident during those periods of imperial power is the construction and maintenance of public architecture; certain economic activities also shift in their importance at th…
Early Lives
Çadır Höyük, located in the Yozgat Province of the north-central Anatolian plateau, was continuously occupied from the late sixth millennium BCE until at least the thirteenth century CE. This article focuses on the fourth millennium BCE during which the Uruk System in southern Mesopotamia emerged, flourished and then retracted, and the Kura-Araxes culture from Transcaucasia ventured into Anatolia and the Levant. A close investigation of the Çadır…
The Longue Durée
The three preceding articles in this issue traced village life at Çadır Höyük from the fourth millennium BCE to its probable final abandonment in the thirteenth or possibly the fourteenth century CE. The authors attempted to identify the trials and tribulations, triumphs and tragedies endured by hundreds of generations of Çadır residents over five millennia of occupation. In this article we both broaden and narrow the discussion. We take a broad …
From the Guest Editors
This theme issue on the site of Çadır Höyük, in the Yozgat province of the north central Anatolian plateau, came out of a discussion with Ann Killebrew, co-editor of JEMAHS. When it was decided that Ann would welcome a proposal for the issue, the challenge to the guest editors was what we should cover, given that Çadır was occupied for over 5,000 years! After a team meeting in the field in 2018, we had an outline of articles, described in more de…
Pivoting East
The investigation of ‘complex connectivities’ as defined by Tomlinson (1999) as a critical element in the understanding of how modern globalization works has been repurposed by archaeologists as a model to explain the mechanisms at work in the archaeological past. This study applies Tomlinson’s model to interpret evidence that such connectivities linked the vast Uruk system in Mesopotamia, the contemporary Kura-Araxes culture in Transcaucasia, an…
When the Giant Falls
At the end of the Late Bronze Age, around 1200 b.c., the Hittite Empire of Anatolia collapsed. While that collapse has been well studied, the effects on Hittite-held lands are less so, with many archaeologists positing an abandonment in Hittite territories for a period of time early in the Iron Age. Recent excavations at Çadır Höyük, 70 kilometers from the Hittite capital, have revealed both typical Hittite material culture belonging to the Late …
Stability and change at Çadır Höyük in central Anatolia
Scholars have recently investigated the efficacy of applying globalisation models to ancient cultures such as the fourth-millennium BC Mesopotamian Uruk system. Embedded within globalisation models is the ‘complex connectivity‘ that brings disparate regions together into a singular world. In the fourth millennium BC, the site of Çadır Höyük on the north-central Anatolian plateau experienced dramatic changes in its material culture and architectur…
Pivoting East
The investigation of ‘complex connectivities’ as defined by Tomlinson (1999) as a critical element in the understanding of how modern globalization works has been repurposed by archaeologists as a model to explain the mechanisms at work in the archaeological past. This study applies Tomlinson’s model to interpret evidence that such connectivities linked the vast Uruk system in Mesopotamia, the contemporary Kura-Araxes culture in Transcaucasia, an…
Sanctifying the House
The intramural burial of small children is culturally widespread, seen from prehistory until modern times n many places around the world. The practice was especially common in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean, with many examples found in in Egypt, the Levant, and Anatolia. Burial of individuals within the house suggests kinship connections with the dead, the connection of the physical home to the life of the family, and perhaps the belief th…
Redefining the Sacred
Archaeology of Domestic Architecture and the Human Use of Space
This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced un…
Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000-323 BCE)
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the destination of many migrants, visitors, and invaders. The offerings in this volume bring this reality to life as the chapters unfold nearly ten thousand years (…
Take Me to Your Leader
During the Early Bronze Age in central Anatolia (ca. 3000-2000 b.c.e.), a change in the residential location of houses belonging to elites and/or leaders occurred. In the fourth and early third millennia, various sites feature settlement plans in which village leaders, or higher-ranking residents, inhabited homes in close proximity to main gates. By the later third millennium the trend was to locate homes away from the gates, sometimes behind phy…
Patterns of Iron Age interaction in central Anatolia
The cultural and political changes that happened in Anatolia after the collapse of the Hittite Empire have only recently been recognised as a significant, but as yet unexplained, phenomenon. Here we present the results of analyses of ceramics from three sites south and southwest of the present-day town of Sorgun – Çadır Höyük, Kerkenes Dağ and Tilkigediği Tepe – to identity how regional groups within the Hittite core area regrouped in the afterma…
Excavations on the north-central plateau
The last decade of excavations at Çadır Höyük, in the north-central region of the Anatolian plateau, has revealed a well-established Late Chalcolithic community with continuous occupation into the Early Bronze I period (mid fourth to early third millennium BC). While the Late Chalcolithic town was prosperous, with well-made houses and objects, and even monumental construction, the stability of the settlement had slipped by the Early Bronze I phas…
A View from the Highlands
The Late Chalcolithic at Çadtr Höyük in Central Anatolia
Southern Anatolian plateau sites such as çatalhöyük, Kuruçay, and Hacilar have provided detailed knowledge on the socio-political and economic lives of their prehistoric residents. In comparison, the north central area of the plateau has been virtually a blank slate due to a relative lack of data. Our excavations at the site of çadir Höyük have added substantially to our understanding of Late Chalcolithic (ca. 3500–3100 B.C.) occupation on the no…
Heading Home
The earliest settled communities on the Anatolian Plateau (central Turkey) consisted of cultivators living in households that cooperated across dwellings in networks of production and consumption. These conclusions are based on the Anatolian data viewed though an interpretive framework modeled on the analysis first offered by Kent Flannery in 1972, with modifications drawn from studies by other scholars in the intervening decades. The theoretical…
The 2000 and 2001 Seasons at Çadır Höyük in Central Turkey
The 1999 Alışar Regional Project Season
Archaeology of Domestic Architecture and the Human Use of Space
This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced un…
Recent research in the archaeology of architecture
Sanctifying the House
The intramural burial of small children is culturally widespread, seen from prehistory until modern times n many places around the world. The practice was especially common in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean, with many examples found in in Egypt, the Levant, and Anatolia. Burial of individuals within the house suggests kinship connections with the dead, the connection of the physical home to the life of the family, and perhaps the belief th…
Excavations on the north-central plateau
The last decade of excavations at Çadır Höyük, in the north-central region of the Anatolian plateau, has revealed a well-established Late Chalcolithic community with continuous occupation into the Early Bronze I period (mid fourth to early third millennium BC). While the Late Chalcolithic town was prosperous, with well-made houses and objects, and even monumental construction, the stability of the settlement had slipped by the Early Bronze I phas…
Patterns of Iron Age interaction in central Anatolia
The cultural and political changes that happened in Anatolia after the collapse of the Hittite Empire have only recently been recognised as a significant, but as yet unexplained, phenomenon. Here we present the results of analyses of ceramics from three sites south and southwest of the present-day town of Sorgun – Çadır Höyük, Kerkenes Dağ and Tilkigediği Tepe – to identity how regional groups within the Hittite core area regrouped in the afterma…
The Late Chalcolithic at Çadtr Höyük in Central Anatolia
Southern Anatolian plateau sites such as çatalhöyük, Kuruçay, and Hacilar have provided detailed knowledge on the socio-political and economic lives of their prehistoric residents. In comparison, the north central area of the plateau has been virtually a blank slate due to a relative lack of data. Our excavations at the site of çadir Höyük have added substantially to our understanding of Late Chalcolithic (ca. 3500–3100 B.C.) occupation on the no…
Anatolian Empires
Çadır Höyük provides rich evidence for the endurance and transformation of specific cultural features and phenomena at a rural center on the Anatolian plateau as it experienced the waxing and waning of control by imperial political powers of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Especially evident during those periods of imperial power is the construction and maintenance of public architecture; certain economic activities also shift in their importance at th…
Heading Home
The earliest settled communities on the Anatolian Plateau (central Turkey) consisted of cultivators living in households that cooperated across dwellings in networks of production and consumption. These conclusions are based on the Anatolian data viewed though an interpretive framework modeled on the analysis first offered by Kent Flannery in 1972, with modifications drawn from studies by other scholars in the intervening decades. The theoretical…
Expanding the plain
This study examines how the population at Çadır Höyük on the north central Anatolian plateau modified agricultural and fuel use practices in response to rapid social and environmental change between 3600 and 2900 BCE (Late Chalcolithic and Transitional to Early Bronze periods). Using descriptive and multivariate statistics to explore data from 60 archaeobotanical samples spanning three periods of occupation (3600–3200 BCE, 3300–3100 BCE, and 3100…
Not Seeing Is Believing
Chalcolithic religious practice at the site of Çadır Höyük (central Anatolia) included the insertion of ritual deposits into the architectural fabric of the settlement, "consecrating" spaces or imbuing them with symbolic properties. These deposits are recognizable in the archaeological record by their consistent use of ritually-charged material, such as ochre, copper, human and animal bone, and certain kinds of ceramics. During the 800-year perio…
Early Lives
Çadır Höyük, located in the Yozgat Province of the north-central Anatolian plateau, was continuously occupied from the late sixth millennium BCE until at least the thirteenth century CE. This article focuses on the fourth millennium BCE during which the Uruk System in southern Mesopotamia emerged, flourished and then retracted, and the Kura-Araxes culture from Transcaucasia ventured into Anatolia and the Levant. A close investigation of the Çadır…
When the Giant Falls
At the end of the Late Bronze Age, around 1200 b.c., the Hittite Empire of Anatolia collapsed. While that collapse has been well studied, the effects on Hittite-held lands are less so, with many archaeologists positing an abandonment in Hittite territories for a period of time early in the Iron Age. Recent excavations at Çadır Höyük, 70 kilometers from the Hittite capital, have revealed both typical Hittite material culture belonging to the Late …
Canhasan Sites 1
Isolation or Interaction
The late fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia may be understood in terms of a complex economy that expanded across western Asia. Some suggest that this trading network may be described as an Uruk-dominated world system in which the southern Mesopotamian core expanded to incorporate the peripheral regions of Syro-Mesopotamia, the Iranian highlands, and southeastern Anatolia. Alternatively, others suggest that the Late Uruk expansion was a catalyst …
Prehistoric Sites on the Cilician Coastal Plain
The ceramic material discussed in the following paper was collected during a survey conducted by the Dept. of Archaeology and History of Art at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. The survey, under the direction of Doctors Ilknur Özgen and Marie-Henriette Gates, was undertaken in the summer of 1991 and covered the coastal area from the site of Yumurtalık, southeast of Misis and Misis Dağ, and continued along the coastal plain to include the site …
Stability and change at Çadır Höyük in central Anatolia
Scholars have recently investigated the efficacy of applying globalisation models to ancient cultures such as the fourth-millennium BC Mesopotamian Uruk system. Embedded within globalisation models is the ‘complex connectivity‘ that brings disparate regions together into a singular world. In the fourth millennium BC, the site of Çadır Höyük on the north-central Anatolian plateau experienced dramatic changes in its material culture and architectur…
Prehistoric Sites on the Cilician Coastal Plain
The ceramic material discussed in the following paper was collected during a survey conducted by the Dept. of Archaeology and History of Art at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. The survey, under the direction of Doctors Ilknur Özgen and Marie-Henriette Gates, was undertaken in the summer of 1991 and covered the coastal area from the site of Yumurtalık, southeast of Misis and Misis Dağ, and continued along the coastal plain to include the site …
The Archaeology of Empire in Ancienct Anatolia
Prehistoric Interregional Interaction in Anatolia and the Balkans
Interest in Anatolian prehistory has experienced a rapid increase in the last decade. While many scholars are researching interaction between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, several have also been attempting to elucidate interregional interaction between Anatolia and the Balkans of southeastern Europe. This article is intended to provide an overview of this important area of investigation to researchers working outside Anatolia and Europe, with an acco…
Recent research in the archaeology of architecture
Isolation or Interaction
The late fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia may be understood in terms of a complex economy that expanded across western Asia. Some suggest that this trading network may be described as an Uruk-dominated world system in which the southern Mesopotamian core expanded to incorporate the peripheral regions of Syro-Mesopotamia, the Iranian highlands, and southeastern Anatolia. Alternatively, others suggest that the Late Uruk expansion was a catalyst …
Elmali Karataş, II
The 1998 Alışar Regional Project Season
The 1999 Alışar Regional Project Season
Spatial Patterning and Social Complexity on Prehistoric Anatolian Tell Sites
Landless and Hungry? Access to Land in Early and Traditional Societies
Canhasan Sites 1
The 2000 and 2001 Seasons at Çadır Höyük in Central Turkey
Heading Home
The earliest settled communities on the Anatolian Plateau (central Turkey) consisted of cultivators living in households that cooperated across dwellings in networks of production and consumption. These conclusions are based on the Anatolian data viewed though an interpretive framework modeled on the analysis first offered by Kent Flannery in 1972, with modifications drawn from studies by other scholars in the intervening decades. The theoretical…
A View from the Highlands
The Late Chalcolithic at Çadtr Höyük in Central Anatolia
Southern Anatolian plateau sites such as çatalhöyük, Kuruçay, and Hacilar have provided detailed knowledge on the socio-political and economic lives of their prehistoric residents. In comparison, the north central area of the plateau has been virtually a blank slate due to a relative lack of data. Our excavations at the site of çadir Höyük have added substantially to our understanding of Late Chalcolithic (ca. 3500–3100 B.C.) occupation on the no…
Excavations on the north-central plateau
The last decade of excavations at Çadır Höyük, in the north-central region of the Anatolian plateau, has revealed a well-established Late Chalcolithic community with continuous occupation into the Early Bronze I period (mid fourth to early third millennium BC). While the Late Chalcolithic town was prosperous, with well-made houses and objects, and even monumental construction, the stability of the settlement had slipped by the Early Bronze I phas…
Patterns of Iron Age interaction in central Anatolia
The cultural and political changes that happened in Anatolia after the collapse of the Hittite Empire have only recently been recognised as a significant, but as yet unexplained, phenomenon. Here we present the results of analyses of ceramics from three sites south and southwest of the present-day town of Sorgun – Çadır Höyük, Kerkenes Dağ and Tilkigediği Tepe – to identity how regional groups within the Hittite core area regrouped in the afterma…
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (10,000-323 BCE)
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the destination of many migrants, visitors, and invaders. The offerings in this volume bring this reality to life as the chapters unfold nearly ten thousand years (…
Take Me to Your Leader
During the Early Bronze Age in central Anatolia (ca. 3000-2000 b.c.e.), a change in the residential location of houses belonging to elites and/or leaders occurred. In the fourth and early third millennia, various sites feature settlement plans in which village leaders, or higher-ranking residents, inhabited homes in close proximity to main gates. By the later third millennium the trend was to locate homes away from the gates, sometimes behind phy…
Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East
Redefining the Sacred
Archaeology of Domestic Architecture and the Human Use of Space
This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced un…
Pivoting East
The investigation of ‘complex connectivities’ as defined by Tomlinson (1999) as a critical element in the understanding of how modern globalization works has been repurposed by archaeologists as a model to explain the mechanisms at work in the archaeological past. This study applies Tomlinson’s model to interpret evidence that such connectivities linked the vast Uruk system in Mesopotamia, the contemporary Kura-Araxes culture in Transcaucasia, an…
Sanctifying the House
The intramural burial of small children is culturally widespread, seen from prehistory until modern times n many places around the world. The practice was especially common in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean, with many examples found in in Egypt, the Levant, and Anatolia. Burial of individuals within the house suggests kinship connections with the dead, the connection of the physical home to the life of the family, and perhaps the belief th…
Anatolian Empires
Çadır Höyük provides rich evidence for the endurance and transformation of specific cultural features and phenomena at a rural center on the Anatolian plateau as it experienced the waxing and waning of control by imperial political powers of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Especially evident during those periods of imperial power is the construction and maintenance of public architecture; certain economic activities also shift in their importance at th…
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