Bleda S Düring
Biographic Data
| ID | 388830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bleda S Düring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bleda S |
| FAMILY NAME | Düring |
| SIGNATURE | DÜRING B S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A new window into agricultural practices in Chalcolithic Cyprus: Archaeobotanical analyses at Chlorakas-Palloures
The Taphonomy of Middle Assyrian Cuneiform Tablet Clusters: Archives or Refuse
In this article we report on the taphonomic analysis of several Middle Assyrian tablet clusters to identify the way these objects ended up in the ground. Rather than in-situ archives that were left behind during some catastrophe, we argue that these tablets were often deliberately discarded. Specifically for the tablet clusters we examined, we propose that they were first temporarily discarded in “office bins.” We claim that the occurrence of clu…
Pre-oil Globalization in a Rural Community: The Late Islamic Village of Sahlat in the Suhar Region
This article aims to study whether the increase of agricultural settlements in the Sultanate of Oman during the Late Islamic period (c. 1500-1950) was related to pre-oil globalization, as attested in the wider Gulf region. This is done by analysing the archaeological dataset of the agricultural village of Sahlat, with a focus on the ceramic material, located in the Suhar region. The assemblages collected by the Wadi al-Jizzi Archaeological Projec…
Transformative copper metallurgy in Chalcolithic Cyprus: A Reappraisal
The extraction and smelting of the rich copper ore deposits of Cyprus and the manufacture of copper objects on the island are thought to have begun during the Philia phase (c. 2400-2200 BC). Here, the authors present the results of lead isotope analysis undertaken on Late Chalcolithic (2900-2400 BC) metal objects from the site of Chlorakas-Palloures. The results facilitate a reassessment of the timing of the start of transformative copper technol…
The Imperialisation of Assyria: An Archaeological Approach
The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region and how it managed to consolidate its power over conquered territories. Textual sources, often biased, provide a relatively limited source of information. In this study, Ble…
Imperialisation of Assyria: An Archaeological Approach
"The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region and how it managed to consolidate its power over conquered territories. Textual sources, often biased, provide a relatively limited source of information. In this study, Bl…
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were d…
Urbanism in the Ancient Near East
Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient near East and Mediterranean World
Ancient Empires on the Ground: Provincial and Peripheral Perspectives
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Towards a Patchwork Perspective on Ancient Empires
Skeletons in the fortress: The Late Bronze Age burials of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria
The assemblage of Late Bronze Age burials from Tell Sabi Abyad provides us with a unique window into the burial customs of the burgeoning Middle Assyrian Empire in the former lands of Hanigalbat. Our understanding of the settlement is aided by the fact that the site has been more or less completely excavated, and because we have rich in situ contexts that include nearly 400 cuneiform tablets. The burial assemblage is remarkable because of the div…
Obsidian Exchange Networks in Prehistoric Anatolia: New Data from the Black Sea Region
The reconstruction of obsidian exchange networks has been one of the success stories of archaeology. However, despite over five decades of research on this topic, investigations have focussed predominantly on a number of well documented exchange networks, creating an incomplete understanding of Prehistoric interactions. In this paper the focus is on an ephemeral obsidian exchange network in Northern Anatolia that has been little investigated. On …
The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies
In this book, Bleda Düring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr Düring traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human…
A Note on the Prehistory of the Devrek Region, Northern Turkey
Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams . Elizabeth C. Stone
The Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal: Investigating an archaeological terra incognita
This paper investigates why we lack convincing evidence for human activities in north-central Anatolia for the period between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal. This paucity of data can be contrasted with substantial evidence for Neolithic communities in south-central Anatolia from about 8,500 BC cal, and of earlier hunter-gatherer communities in that region. This difference in our data is especially problematic because in terms of ecology both regions app…
Reconsidering the Çatalhöyük Community: From Households to Settlement Systems
With an area of 13 ha and an estimated population running into the thousands, Çatalhöyük is one of the largest settlements of the Near Eastern Neolithic. On the basis of its size, the site has often been interpreted as a town or city, without due consideration whether the settlement has the characteristics associated with these concepts. Furthermore, the normative categorization of the settlement has led to a neglect of how the local community at…
Worthy is the Lamb: A Double Burial at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
Neolithic Çatalhöyük (central Anatolia) is well known for its elaborate animal symbolism. However, while sheep are the most abundant animal in the faunal assemblage at the site, they are virtually absent in the art and among the animal parts incorporated into the architecture. Thus it is striking that the first and so far only animal burial found at Çatalhöyük is a lamb placed with a human body, a sharp departure from usual human burial practice …
Burials in context: The 1960s inhumations of Çatalhöyük East
The burial customs practised at Neolithic Çatalhöyük have raised a substantial amount of interest, due to factors such as a tradition of intramural inhumation, elaborate grave goods including organic remains in an excellent state of preservation, and a posited link to scenes in wall paintings supposedly showing vultures pecking at humanoid figures. In consequence, numerous publications have discussed the burial practices of the site, and the syst…
Social dimensions in the architecture of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük is an important symbol of the Neolithic in Anatolia. Within the buildings of this settlement spectacular ‘art’ was found, and beneath the floors of these buildings elaborately furnished burials were unearthed. Among the characteristics of the settlement the absence of streets constitutes a central element for understanding this period. Despite the unique and well known remains found at the site, its architecture has not been studied sy…
Worthy is the Lamb: A Double Burial at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
Neolithic Çatalhöyük (central Anatolia) is well known for its elaborate animal symbolism. However, while sheep are the most abundant animal in the faunal assemblage at the site, they are virtually absent in the art and among the animal parts incorporated into the architecture. Thus it is striking that the first and so far only animal burial found at Çatalhöyük is a lamb placed with a human body, a sharp departure from usual human burial practice …
Social dimensions in the architecture of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük is an important symbol of the Neolithic in Anatolia. Within the buildings of this settlement spectacular ‘art’ was found, and beneath the floors of these buildings elaborately furnished burials were unearthed. Among the characteristics of the settlement the absence of streets constitutes a central element for understanding this period. Despite the unique and well known remains found at the site, its architecture has not been studied sy…
Obsidian Exchange Networks in Prehistoric Anatolia: New Data from the Black Sea Region
The reconstruction of obsidian exchange networks has been one of the success stories of archaeology. However, despite over five decades of research on this topic, investigations have focussed predominantly on a number of well documented exchange networks, creating an incomplete understanding of Prehistoric interactions. In this paper the focus is on an ephemeral obsidian exchange network in Northern Anatolia that has been little investigated. On …
Transformative copper metallurgy in Chalcolithic Cyprus: A Reappraisal
The extraction and smelting of the rich copper ore deposits of Cyprus and the manufacture of copper objects on the island are thought to have begun during the Philia phase (c. 2400-2200 BC). Here, the authors present the results of lead isotope analysis undertaken on Late Chalcolithic (2900-2400 BC) metal objects from the site of Chlorakas-Palloures. The results facilitate a reassessment of the timing of the start of transformative copper technol…
Burials in context: The 1960s inhumations of Çatalhöyük East
The burial customs practised at Neolithic Çatalhöyük have raised a substantial amount of interest, due to factors such as a tradition of intramural inhumation, elaborate grave goods including organic remains in an excellent state of preservation, and a posited link to scenes in wall paintings supposedly showing vultures pecking at humanoid figures. In consequence, numerous publications have discussed the burial practices of the site, and the syst…
The Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal: Investigating an archaeological terra incognita
This paper investigates why we lack convincing evidence for human activities in north-central Anatolia for the period between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal. This paucity of data can be contrasted with substantial evidence for Neolithic communities in south-central Anatolia from about 8,500 BC cal, and of earlier hunter-gatherer communities in that region. This difference in our data is especially problematic because in terms of ecology both regions app…
Social dimensions in the architecture of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük is an important symbol of the Neolithic in Anatolia. Within the buildings of this settlement spectacular ‘art’ was found, and beneath the floors of these buildings elaborately furnished burials were unearthed. Among the characteristics of the settlement the absence of streets constitutes a central element for understanding this period. Despite the unique and well known remains found at the site, its architecture has not been studied sy…
Burials in context: The 1960s inhumations of Çatalhöyük East
The burial customs practised at Neolithic Çatalhöyük have raised a substantial amount of interest, due to factors such as a tradition of intramural inhumation, elaborate grave goods including organic remains in an excellent state of preservation, and a posited link to scenes in wall paintings supposedly showing vultures pecking at humanoid figures. In consequence, numerous publications have discussed the burial practices of the site, and the syst…
Worthy is the Lamb: A Double Burial at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
Neolithic Çatalhöyük (central Anatolia) is well known for its elaborate animal symbolism. However, while sheep are the most abundant animal in the faunal assemblage at the site, they are virtually absent in the art and among the animal parts incorporated into the architecture. Thus it is striking that the first and so far only animal burial found at Çatalhöyük is a lamb placed with a human body, a sharp departure from usual human burial practice …
Reconsidering the Çatalhöyük Community: From Households to Settlement Systems
With an area of 13 ha and an estimated population running into the thousands, Çatalhöyük is one of the largest settlements of the Near Eastern Neolithic. On the basis of its size, the site has often been interpreted as a town or city, without due consideration whether the settlement has the characteristics associated with these concepts. Furthermore, the normative categorization of the settlement has led to a neglect of how the local community at…
Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams . Elizabeth C. Stone
The Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal: Investigating an archaeological terra incognita
This paper investigates why we lack convincing evidence for human activities in north-central Anatolia for the period between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal. This paucity of data can be contrasted with substantial evidence for Neolithic communities in south-central Anatolia from about 8,500 BC cal, and of earlier hunter-gatherer communities in that region. This difference in our data is especially problematic because in terms of ecology both regions app…
A Note on the Prehistory of the Devrek Region, Northern Turkey
The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies
In this book, Bleda Düring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr Düring traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human…
Obsidian Exchange Networks in Prehistoric Anatolia: New Data from the Black Sea Region
The reconstruction of obsidian exchange networks has been one of the success stories of archaeology. However, despite over five decades of research on this topic, investigations have focussed predominantly on a number of well documented exchange networks, creating an incomplete understanding of Prehistoric interactions. In this paper the focus is on an ephemeral obsidian exchange network in Northern Anatolia that has been little investigated. On …
Skeletons in the fortress: The Late Bronze Age burials of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria
The assemblage of Late Bronze Age burials from Tell Sabi Abyad provides us with a unique window into the burial customs of the burgeoning Middle Assyrian Empire in the former lands of Hanigalbat. Our understanding of the settlement is aided by the fact that the site has been more or less completely excavated, and because we have rich in situ contexts that include nearly 400 cuneiform tablets. The burial assemblage is remarkable because of the div…
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were d…
Urbanism in the Ancient Near East
Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient near East and Mediterranean World
Ancient Empires on the Ground: Provincial and Peripheral Perspectives
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Towards a Patchwork Perspective on Ancient Empires
The Imperialisation of Assyria: An Archaeological Approach
The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region and how it managed to consolidate its power over conquered territories. Textual sources, often biased, provide a relatively limited source of information. In this study, Ble…
Imperialisation of Assyria: An Archaeological Approach
"The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we know little about how this empire emerged from a relatively minor polity in the Tigris region and how it managed to consolidate its power over conquered territories. Textual sources, often biased, provide a relatively limited source of information. In this study, Bl…
Pre-oil Globalization in a Rural Community: The Late Islamic Village of Sahlat in the Suhar Region
This article aims to study whether the increase of agricultural settlements in the Sultanate of Oman during the Late Islamic period (c. 1500-1950) was related to pre-oil globalization, as attested in the wider Gulf region. This is done by analysing the archaeological dataset of the agricultural village of Sahlat, with a focus on the ceramic material, located in the Suhar region. The assemblages collected by the Wadi al-Jizzi Archaeological Projec…
Transformative copper metallurgy in Chalcolithic Cyprus: A Reappraisal
The extraction and smelting of the rich copper ore deposits of Cyprus and the manufacture of copper objects on the island are thought to have begun during the Philia phase (c. 2400-2200 BC). Here, the authors present the results of lead isotope analysis undertaken on Late Chalcolithic (2900-2400 BC) metal objects from the site of Chlorakas-Palloures. The results facilitate a reassessment of the timing of the start of transformative copper technol…
The Taphonomy of Middle Assyrian Cuneiform Tablet Clusters: Archives or Refuse
In this article we report on the taphonomic analysis of several Middle Assyrian tablet clusters to identify the way these objects ended up in the ground. Rather than in-situ archives that were left behind during some catastrophe, we argue that these tablets were often deliberately discarded. Specifically for the tablet clusters we examined, we propose that they were first temporarily discarded in “office bins.” We claim that the occurrence of clu…
A new window into agricultural practices in Chalcolithic Cyprus: Archaeobotanical analyses at Chlorakas-Palloures
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