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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.
Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
wiley   +1 more source

Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1547-1564, December 2025.
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The First Temple In Iron Age Cappadocia: Oluz Höyük Worship Hall and Atashkadeh

open access: yesHöyük, 2023
The excavations in Oluz Höyük, located 25 kilometers from Amasya city center in North-Central Anatolia, continuing since 2007 have completed their 16th year, in which ten settlements that have been unearthed from the Chalcolithic ...
Şevket Dönmez, Mona Saba
doaj   +1 more source

Mediterraneanism Meets Global Ethics: A Poetic and Material Analysis of The Island of Missing Trees

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article delves into discussions around the global novel through a poetic and material analysis of The Island of Missing Trees (2021) by British‐Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Internationally acclaimed, the novel's central plot is a love story set in 1974 Nicosia (Cyprus) between Kostas, a Greek Cypriot, and Defne, a Turkish Cypriot, who ...
Aina Vidal‐Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

Human–Bird Interactions Across Time and Space in a Bronze Age City: The Case of Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Amuq Valley, Turkey)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 597-611, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Birds have played both subsistence and symbolic roles in past human societies, with their significance evolving alongside sedentary lifestyles and agriculture. Although Neolithic settlements in Western Asia primarily relied on domesticated mammals, birds remained a marginal resource, their importance varying by region.
Marcel van Tuinen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural encounters during the LBII and IAI: Hittites and “Pelesets” in the Amuq (Hatay) Turkey

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica, 2019
The analysis of long-dormant archaeological documentation and recent archaeological discoveries concerning the Amuq region (modern Hatay) have shed new light on the period from the Late Bronze Age II to the Iron Age III, reopened old questions ...
Marina Pucci
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
wiley   +1 more source

Imperial systems and local landscapes of Buldan Yayla in Western Anatolia (Türkiye) during the last 4000 years: An integrated palynological, historical, and archaeological approach

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1285-1304, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates long‐term impacts of empires on local socio‐ecosystems in western Anatolia (modern western Türkiye) over the past four millennia. We focus on Buldan Yayla Lake, located in a small mountain basin north of the Büyük Menderes (Great Meander) River valley.
Sabina Fiołna   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Art de l'Empire [Art of the Hittite Empire]

open access: yes, 2015
Hatice Gonnet-Bağana's notes with diagram illustrating the art during the time of Empire period based on Winfred Orthmann's article on the Neo-Hittite art.Paper (2 ...
Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice
core   +1 more source

معاملة أبناء الملوك لزوجات آبائهم بعد توليهم الحكم خلال عصر الإمبراطورية الحيثية (1400-1207ق.م) The treatment of stepmothers by the Sons of Kings after assuming power during the Hittite Empire (1400-1207 B.C). [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ al-Luġaẗ al-'arabiyyaẗ bi-Assiut
كان للمرأة الحيثية – بشكل عام - والملكات الحيثيات – بشكل خاص -، أثر كبير في الإمبراطورية الحيثية، خاصة الأجنبيات منهن، إذ برز دور الكثير منهن في العديد من المجالات، كالإدارة، والعلاقات الدبلوماسية، والسياسة الداخلية، والأمور الدينية، فقد كان تأثيرهن واضحً
محمد إبراهيم ثابت أحمد   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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