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THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CERAMICS FROM THE LATE NEOLITHIC NEAR EAST

7-9 MARCH 2019

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The Third International Workshop on Late Neolithic Pottery from the Ancient Near East is jointly organized by Koç University, Ege University and Yale University. The workshop will be hosted by Koç University’s Suna and İnan Kıraç AKMED Research Institute for Mediterranean Civilizations in Antalya on 7-9 March 2019.

Following in the footsteps of a kick-off workshop held in Brno in January 2012 and a second one held in Barcelona in October 2015, this third workshop also aims to publish resulting articles in a collected volume. The results of the initial workshop, published by Oxbow books under the title “Painting Pots – Painting People: Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Mesopotamia,” has added to our knowledge on the Late Neolithic in a significant way. The second volume, to be published by the Museu Arqueològic De Catalunya Publications, is nearly ready for print.

CONFERENCE VENUE

The Third International Workshop will take place in the beautiful and sun-filled city of Antalya. AKMED is a research institute affiliated with Koç University, established by Suna and İnan Kıraç, and serves as a Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations. The center focuses on the Mediterranean World including the history, archaeology, art history, architectural history, cultural heritage of the region. Located in Antalya’s old center, known as Kaleiçi, AKMED and is housed in a complex of adjacent buildings and an old church. Nowadays these buildings, converted to conference rooms, museums, a library and a bookstore, serve researchers and the public alike. AKMED will provide a peaceful and idyllic location for the Third Pottery Neolithic Workshop.

Antalya’s Kaleiçi and beyond offers a wide range of hotel options from budget choices to luxurious hotels. AKMED has agreements with a few hotels and the conference will receive special discounts for participants. Follow this link for further details on accommodation and price options.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We welcome oral and poster presentations on all subjects related to ceramics from the late seventh or sixth millennia from the Near East in its broadest sense. Ceramics in this phase are not only prolific but they are often painted and carry the potential to be a visual medium. This conference invites papers related to both plain and painted pottery from Late Neolithic sites in the Near East. This could include any subject relating to the production, use, discard, decoration, style, function, tradition, technological foundation or chronological attribution. Themes could include, but are not limited to, topics such as:

We hope that this workshop will address these issues and others relating to the origin, evolution and distribution of ceramics. We welcome regional or synthetic approaches seeking to draw ceramics within a larger picture regarding the social, economic or ideological changes that the Near East and surrounding regions were witnessing at the time. Especially welcome are papers that approach prehistoric ceramics of the region via the use of new laboratory techniques to identify exchange and provenience studies to refine the role of inter-regional contacts and trade during this period.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

PROGRAM

The conference program will be announced shortly. The conference will begin at 8:30 am on Thursday 7 March and end at 1:30 pm on Friday 9 March. Please note: Each presenter has a 25-minute slot for his/her paper. We will be following a strict adherence to time.

8:45am – 9:30am

Registration & Welcome Coffee and Tea

9:30am – 9:40am

Introductory Remarks

9:45am – 10:10am

VOLPI

Not Only Painted - A Preliminary, Techno-Morphological Approach to the Early Ubaid Pottery in Southern Mesopotamia

10:15am – 10:40am

ÖKSE

New Data on the Late Neolithic Pottery from the Northern Upper Tigris Region

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

11:15am – 11:40am

HOLE & TONOIKE

Preforms for Sequential Slab Manufacture?

11:45am – 12:10pm

ÇİLİNGİROĞLU

A Technological Approach to West Anatolian Late Neolithic Ceramics

12:15pm – 12:40pm

HOREJS & BURKE

Neolithic Potting Traditions at Çukuriçi Höyük

12:45 – 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm – 2:25pm

CALVO et al

Technological Approximation to Pre Halaf Pottery Of Tell Halula: A Chaîne Opératoire Overview

2:30pm – 2:55pm

KARATAŞ

An Evaluation of Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Sites in Kuseyr Plateau in the Context of Material Culture

3:00pm – 3:25pm

PETROVA

Neolithic Pottery Technology of Northern Iraq (by the materials of the Yarim Tepe I settlement)

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm – 4:25pm

MOLIST et al

Whiteware or “VaiselleBlache” in the Chrono-Cultural and Technological Context of the First Ceramic Productions in the Area of the Euphrates Valley: The Documents of Tell Halula (Euphrates Valley, Syria)

4:30pm – 4:55pm

NIEUWENHUYSE

Studying Ceramic Fragmentation and Deposition in Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia: A Call to Arms

18:30

Dinner

8:45am – 9:15am

Welcome Coffee and Tea

9:15am – 9:40am

AMIROV

Experience in Creating a Descriptive System for Morphology of Halafian Painted Pottery from Yarim-Tepe 2 (Iraq)

9:45am – 10:10am

ERDALKIRAN

Reassessment of Halaf Painted Pottery from Yunus (Gaziantep)

10:15am – 10:40am

ODAKA

New Insights into Regional Variability of the Hassuna Standard Ware

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

11:15am – 11:40am

ÖZDÖL

Bull Symbolism in Anatolian Neolithic Pottery

11:45am – 12:10pm

BELCHER

Peopling Pots and Potting People: Anthropomorphic Ceramics in the Halaf and Neolithic Anatolia

12:15pm – 12:40pm

TEKİN

Narrative Scenes on the Late Neolithic Pottery of Domuztepe

12:45 – 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm – 2:25pm

BACH & MOLIST

Boundaries and Regional Frameworks at Mid Sixth Millennium cal BC: From Levant to Northern Zagros

2:30pm – 2:55pm

ERDOĞU & ATAKUMAN

Insularity and Island Identity in the Prehistoric Pottery Traditions from Uğurlu on the Island of Gökçeada

3:00pm – 3:25pm

BADRESHANY & PHILIP

Potting on the Edge of the Painted Traditions: Ceramic Regionalism and the Role of Craft Production During the Neolithic of the Central Levant

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm – 4:25pm

CRUELLS & MOLIST

Akarçay Tepe in South Eastern Turkey. A Key Site to Understand the Origins of the First Pottery Productions in the Near East

4:30pm – 4:55pm

ROL

Hybrid styles: categorizing painted pottery at 6th millennium Fıstıklı Höyük

18:30

Dinner

8:45am – 9:15am

Welcome Coffee and Tea

9:15am – 9:40am

SHIMOGAMA

Pottery Use of the Late Neolithic Farming Community in the Southern Caucasus: First Results of Organic Residue Analysis

9:45am – 10:10am

H. ÖZBAL & TÜRKEKUL BIYIK

Results of Organic Residue Analyses from pottery from Barcin Hoyuk

10:15am – 10:40am

BREU BARCONS et al.

Organic Residue Analysis from Pre-Halaf and Late Halaf Sherds at Tell Halula. A Diachronic Look at Social Network Creating Culinary Practices

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

11:15am – 11:40am

SHOOVAL & ROSENBERG

Closely related? The Pottery Assemblage of Room C70 in Building CI at Tel Tsaf (Middle Chalcolithic) and Its Characteristics

11:45am – 12:10pm

TARANTO et al

A First Assessment of Technological and Functional Traces on Late Neolithic Husking Trays from the Near East

12:15pm – 12:40pm

Closing Remarks & Group Discussion

12:45 – 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Optional Kaleiçi Tour

REGISTER

For questions and comments, please contact neolithic@ku.edu.tr