Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond

This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies. Lithic studies are mostly conducted on a site by site basis, and specialist studies on lithics tend to focus primarily on technology and typology. As a result, information acquired through lithic research is presented as the identifier of the particular site with the addition of brief local correlations. This creates isolated islands of information. This volume is intended to bring these islands together to build the bigger picture, showcasing the fluidity of technological change, transitional cultural developments, and cultural formation by focusing on the interrelations between sites, localities and regions. Individually and collectively the wide range of papers in the volume give perspectives on Neolithization as seen through stone technologies, highlighting both regional trends and interregional relationships. The volume lays the foundations for creating an integrated understanding of Neolithic lithic technologies across the broad geographical regions of Turkey, Greece and the Balkans.

Foreword - Mehmet Ozdogan Connecting Lithics: An Introduction to Lithic Studies in Anatolia and Beyond - Adnan Baysal Raw Material Matters - Elizabeth Healey Use-wear Analysis of Lithic Tools: Technical Processes and Cultural Developments in Anatolia - Laurence Astruc The Projectile Points of Neolithic Catalhoyuk: A Contextual Multi-Attribute Analysis - Lilian Dogiama The Importance of Lithics in Determining the Economic Models and Lifestyles of Prehistoric Societies: The Kanlitas Hoyuk Example - Neyir Kolankaya-Bostanci The Lithic Assemblage of Suluin Cave in Antalya (sw Anatolia) - Zehra Furuzen Taskiran and Harun Taskiran Lithic Assemblages from the Marmara Region: 7th -3rd mill. BC - Ivan Gatsov and Petranka Nedelcheva Yesilova Hoyuk Neolithic Period Chipped Stone Industry - Betul Findik and Zafer Derin The Techno-Typology of The Projectile Points of the Neolithic Settlement of Ege Gubre (Izmir/Turkey) - Esref Erbil Interpreting Chipped Stone Assemblages of the Neolithic in Western Anatolia - A Conceptual View - Bogdana Milic Looking West: Central Anatolian Obsidian in the Western Anatolian Peninsula and Eastern Aegean - Marina Milic Viewing Melian Neolithic Obsidian Networks from the Western Side of the Aegean sea (Greece): Distribution Parameters and Data Reconsidered - Lia Karimali and Stella Papadopoulou Stone Technology Under the Microscope: the Contribution of Microwear Analysis of Ground Stone Tools to the Understanding of Daily Activities - Christina Tsoraki On the Function and Ethnographic Analogies of North East Aegean Ground Stone Tools - Abdulkadir Ozdemir and A. Onur Bamyaci General Assessment of the Ground Stone Industries of the Marmara Region - Emre Guldogan So Close, Yet So Far Away: the Ground Stone Tool Assemblages from the Two Neighbouring Settlements of Kleitos, North-western Greece - Danai Chondrou Abrasive Stone Tools in the Neolithic of Serbia: from Recognition to Publication - Dragana Antonovic and Vidan Dimic, Foreword – Mehmet Özdoğan Connecting Lithics: An Introduction to Lithic Studies in Anatolia and Beyond – Adnan Baysal Raw Material Matters – Elizabeth Healey Use-wear Analysis of Lithic Tools: Technical Processes and Cultural Developments in Anatolia – Laurence Astruc The Projectile Points of Neolithic Çatalhöyük: A Contextual Multi-Attribute Analysis – Lilian Dogiama The Importance of Lithics in Determining the Economic Models and Lifestyles of Prehistoric Societies: The Kanlıtaş Höyük Example – Neyir Kolankaya-Bostancı The Lithic Assemblage of Suluin Cave in Antalya (sw Anatolia) – Zehra Fürüzen Taşkıran and Harun Taşkıran Lithic Assemblages from the Marmara Region: 7th -3rd mill. BC – Ivan Gatsov and Petranka Nedelcheva Yeşilova Höyük Neolithic Period Chipped Stone Industry – Betül Fındık and Zafer Derin The Techno-Typology of The Projectile Points of the Neolithic Settlement of Ege Gübre (Izmir/Turkey) – Eşref Erbil Interpreting Chipped Stone Assemblages of the Neolithic in Western Anatolia – A Conceptual View – Bogdana Milić Looking West: Central Anatolian Obsidian in the Western Anatolian Peninsula and Eastern Aegean – Marina Milić Viewing Melian Neolithic Obsidian Networks from the Western Side of the Aegean sea (Greece): Distribution Parameters and Data Reconsidered – Lia Karimali and Stella Papadopoulou Stone Technology Under the Microscope: the Contribution of Microwear Analysis of Ground Stone Tools to the Understanding of Daily Activities – Christina Tsoraki On the Function and Ethnographic Analogies of North East Aegean Ground Stone Tools – Abdulkadir Özdemir and A. Onur Bamyacı General Assessment of the Ground Stone Industries of the Marmara Region – Emre Güldoğan So Close, Yet So Far Away: the Ground Stone Tool Assemblages from the Two Neighbouring Settlements of Kleitos, North-western Greece – Danai Chondrou Abrasive Stone Tools in the Neolithic of Serbia: from Recognition to Publication – Dragana Antonović and Vidan Dimić