Material Culture and Social Identity
The Evidence for a 4th Millennium BC Mesopotamian Uruk Colony at Hacinebi, Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6107086 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gil J Stein (0000-0001-5175-5372, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-22 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paléorient (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0153-9345 • E-ISSN: 1957-701X |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/paleo.1999.983 |
| OpenAlex | W2016230313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Archaeological analyses of interaction between colonies and host communities require an understanding of the relationship between material culture and alternative forms of social identity. Foreign material culture assemblages in indigenous settlements may reflect exchange, emulation, or actual ethnic differences between colonizing groups and local host communities. Establishing the presence of colonies and reconstructing the organization of cross-cultural interaction is especially important for the Uruk expansion - which has been termed the world's earliest known colonial network. This paper presents a cross-culturally applicable definition of colonies, and suggests ways to distinguish between the archaeological signatures of trade, emulation, and colonization. Based on these criteria, the available evidence indicates that the Uruk Mesopotamian art if actual materials at the site of Hacinebi in the Euphrates River valley of southeast Turkey result from the presence of an ethnically distinct colony inside the 4th millennium local Anatolian settlement
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Colonialism · Cultural exchange · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Human settlement · Identity (music · Indigenous · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.84 |
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| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |