Interactions between Southern Anatolia and Cyprus in the 2nd Millennium BC
World Archaeology Seminars
»Interactions between Southern Anatolia and Cyprus in the 2nd Millennium BC: An Analysis of Imported Pottery«
Ekin Kozal | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Near Eastern Archaeology
Past and ongoing archaeological research in southern Anatolia by various scholars presents a substantial archaeological foundation with fine-tuned stratigraphy and chronologies. The knowledge collected from southern Anatolia became a ‘game changer’ in the assessment of the interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean. This lecture presents an overview of the interactions between Cyprus and the southern coast of Anatolia in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, which is a period of globalization with interregional connections through the utilization of both land and sea routes. Pottery studies play the crucial role in this overall analysis as ceramics are better preserved than the raw materials, such as textiles and metals. Thereby, Middle and Late Cypriot pottery in southern Anatolia and Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware in Cyprus became the keys for this analysis that has also been supported also by archaeometry. Furthermore, there will be an attempt to integrate the study of pottery circulation between the two opposite coasts of Cyprus and Anatolia both with archaeological, geographical and historical background.