Kinet Höyük 2 The Early Bronze Age and Earlier Occupations

PREFACE (Marie-Henriette Gates) 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TÜRKÇE ÖZET 

INTRODUCTION 

1. THE SITE AND EXCAVATION

The site

Excavation 

The operations

2. NEOLITHIC AND CHALCOLITHIC

Pre-Halafian pottery 

Halafian pottery

Ubaid-like pottery

Late Chalcolithic pottery 

Stone objects

3. STRATIGRAPHY AND PHASING

Period 19-29 

Harbor Area (OPs. VA and Z4)

4. ARCHITECTURAL FORM AND FEATURES

Form and organization

Construction techniques 

Architectural features

THE EARLY BR VI ONZE AGE AND EARLIER OCCUPATIONS

5. POTTERY 

Recording method 

Pottery fabrics 

Shape typologies

Pot marks and seal impressions 

EB I at Kinet Höyük

Pottery of Periods 29–25 (EB II) 

Pottery of Periods 24–19 (EB III) 

Pottery from the East Terrace 

Pottery from the Harbor Area (OPs. VA and Z4)

Archaeometric analysis of EB and pre-EB pottery (Murat Eroğlu and Marie-Henriette Gates)

6. OTHER FINDS

Clay objects 

Metal objects

Metallurgy (Thomas Zimmermann)

Chipped stone

Stone objects

Grindstones (David Heslop)

Bone and shell objects 

Objects from the East Terrace and Harbor Area 

7. ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE (Salima Ikram)

Materials and methods 

EB II 

EB III 

Discussion 

8. PLANT USE (Andrew Fairbairn and Makayla Harding)

Materials and methods 

Results

Discussion and conclusion

9. CHRONOLOGY

10. KİNET H.Y.K IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE

Periods 29–25: EB II

Periods 24–22: early and middle EB III 

Periods 21–19: late EB III 

APPENDIXES

1. Locus list

2. Walls and pits: correlation of publication and locus numbers 

3. Skeleton from OP. VA (Elizabeth Parr)

4. Sample records of plant remains from EB contexts

REFERENCES

INDEX