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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