Using Network Analysis to Examine Relative Resource Procurement Strategies in Anatolia and Southwest Asia from the Epi-Palaeolithic
to Chalcolithic Periods (14000 - 5700 BP)
Zack Batist & Tristan Carter McMaster University
Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting 2014 - Chicago
Obsidian Sources
Chataigner et al. 1998Delerue 2007
Interaction Zones
Roaf 1990
PERIOD RANGE # OF SITES
0 / 1 / 2 14000 - 9600 BP < 10
3 9600 - 8600 BP 22
4 8600 - 8000 BP 15
5 8000 - 7600 BP 15
6 7600 - 7000 BP 15
7 7000 - 6500 BP 13
8 / 9 6500 - 5700 BP 20
TOTAL 9600 - 5700 BP 100
~ 1/3 - 1/4 of the complete dataset
Dataset
Distance-Decay Model
Proximal Point Analysis
Delerue 2007
Dja'de
80%
2%2%16%
Mureybet
65%
22%
13%
Brainerd-Robinson Coefficient of Similarity: 160
160
Period 3 9000 - 8600 BP
Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Period 3 9000 - 8600 BP
Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
520 - 620 km580 - 680 km 50
0 - 57
0 km
Period 4 8600 - 8000 BP
Middle / Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Period 5 and Period 6 8000 - 7600 BP / 7600 - 7000 BP
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C / Pottery Neolithic A
Period 7 7000 - 6500 BP
Pottery Neolithic A
Period 7 7000 - 6500 BP
Pottery Neolithic A
Larger amounts of Meydan Dag material
Period 8/9 6500 - 5700 BP
Pottery Neolithic B / Early Chalcolithic
Period 8/9 6500 - 5700 BP
Pottery Neolithic B / Early Chalcolithic
Network Analysis + GIS
Artefact Specimen
Chemical composition
Volcanic source
• Typology • Use-wear • Context
How were certain material used?
Carter et al 2013
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