Third millennium B. C. interregional exchange in southwest Asia with special reference to the Keban region of Turkey [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3287290
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Yener, Aslihan
- Description:
- 296 p.
- Summary:
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The problem of identifying the trade relations between high resource regions of Turkey and the resource poor neighbors has been one of those key questions which have long been examined in archeological literature. This study is an attempt to arrive at the nature of exchange taking place in the third millennium between Central Turkey and the densely populated North Syrian and Mesopotamian urban centers, an exchange which presumably directly involved the Keban region in Southeast Turkey. The focus is primarily on the latter half of the third millennium, the Early Dynastic and Akkadian periods in Mesopotamia, on the assumption that it is during this period that the basic foundations of the well-documented and highly complex trade network of the early second millennium Assyrian Trading Colonies linking Central Turkey and Northern Mesopotamia were established. In order to arrive at the nature of exchange systems, it was necessary to first define what was exchanged.
Accordingly, several potential trade index fossils were isolated and termed the Import Index. These artifact types were chosen as being atypical and alien to the local repertoires and often localized as native elsewhere. These are "metallic ware" with its characteristic shape, the "Syrian bottle"; metal objects with foreign affiliations including jewellery; and seal styles. When viewed as a whole, these dispersed artifacts have been utilized in the literature as revealing sporadic clues to external commercial links. Textual material from neighboring literate regions such as Syria and Mesopotamia are used to illuminate the historical framework and yield important information on the basic economic functioning of those areas as relating to Turkey. The recent discovery of the Ebla archives, lends significant support to the existence of trade links involving textiles and metals between North Syria and Turkey in the third millennium.
The location of critical ores and timber sources and the proximity of the Keban to well traveled routes of access makes this area a fruitful region to postulate trade links. By the application of the gravity model and the gateway community model to the Import Index data, some of the basic relationships of the Keban sites as a group to Central Anatolia, the urban centers of the south and to each other are suggested. The results of the tests and the interpretive models have shown that there appears to be a positive, direct relationship between the existence of high import frequencies and the distance from the Tigris River in an exchange mode termed directional trade. This mode, a true trade, is a complex fully developed system which is exemplified by the ensuing second millennium Assyrian Trading Colonies.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI8028817
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-07, Section: A, page: 3167.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1980.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Archaeology
- Other authors/contributors:
- Columbia University
- Copyright:
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