Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Archaeology of Hittite Imperialism and Ceramic Production in Late Bronze Age Cilicia

论文改进补助金：赫梯帝国主义的考古学和青铜时代晚期西里西亚的陶瓷生产

• 批准号: 1331391
• 负责人: Peter Magee
• 金额: $ 0.83万
• 依托单位: Bryn Mawr College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1331391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Archaeology; Hittite

Under the supervision of Professor Peter Magee, Steven Karacic will study the Late Bronze Age IIA (c. 1400-1200 BCE) ceramics from the site of Tarsus-Gözlükule, a major settlement in the region of Cilicia, Turkey and a provincial center within the Hittite Empire. For several generations, empires have been the subject of scholarly investigations which privilege evidence, both material and historical, from the imperial capital. Such approaches provide limited insight into those peoples living under the imperial yoke, often assuming a passive role on the part of provincial actors in the establishment of imperialism. Tarsus-Gözlükule, as a provincial center, provides a unique opportunity to investigate the impact of empire on a politically disenfranchised population.Since the archaeological record preserves only a fraction of a society's material culture, the study of ceramics is one important means of investigating ancient lifeways. Often the pottery from Tarsus-Gözlükule and other contemporary sites within the Hittite Empire as been interpreted as the product of a standardized ceramic industry linked to direct imperial control and divorced from any form of agency on the part of the provincial population. A preliminary macroscopic analysis of the pottery from Tarsus-Gözlükule suggests more complicated patterns of production and consumption. Through petrographic analysis, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, and firing tests, it will be possible to offer further insight into the production and consumption of ceramics within a province of the Hittite Empire. In this way, the dissertation will re-write the narrative for Cilicia in the later half of the second millennium, offer new insights into Hittite imperialism, and contribute to debates on empire within the discipline of Anthropology.On a broader scale, this project will analyze material from an old excavation, contribute relevant data to ongoing research in the region, promote international collaboration, and convert dormant archaeological materials into pedagogical resources. The ceramics in this study were excavated in the 1930s, when many of these technologies were either unavailable or in their infancy. This re-analysis of previously excavated material and its subsequent dissemination in academic journals and conference papers is of fundamental importance to the discipline. The mineralogical and geochemical data generated by this project will be an asset to current excavations at Tarsus-Gözlükule as well as several other sites in the region, and the exchange of this data will promote international collaboration between US and Turkish researchers. Finally, the data and thin-sections produced for petrography will be incorporated into graduate and undergraduate courses at Bryn Mawr College and will thus contribute to the training of a new generation of archaeologists.

在彼得·马吉教授的指导下，史蒂文·卡拉西奇将研究来自塔尔苏斯-格兹卢库勒遗址的青铜时代晚期IIA（约公元前1400-1200年）陶瓷，塔尔苏斯-格兹卢库勒是土耳其西里西亚地区的一个主要定居点，也是赫梯帝国的一个省级中心。 几代人以来，帝国一直是学术研究的主题，这些研究优先考虑来自帝国首都的物质和历史证据。 这种方法对那些生活在帝国枷锁下的人民的了解有限，他们往往在帝国主义的建立过程中扮演着被动角色。 塔尔苏斯-格兹吕库勒作为省级中心，提供了一个独特的机会来调查帝国对政治上被剥夺权利的人口的影响。由于考古记录仅保留了社会物质文化的一小部分，因此对陶瓷的研究是研究古代生活方式的重要手段。 塔尔苏斯-格兹吕库勒和赫梯帝国其他当代遗址的陶器常常被解释为标准化陶瓷工业的产物，该工业与帝国的直接控制相关，并且脱离了省内人口的任何形式的代理。 对塔尔苏斯-格兹吕库勒陶器的初步宏观分析表明，其生产和消费模式更为复杂。通过岩相分析、仪器中子活化分析和烧制测试，将有可能进一步了解赫梯帝国一个省内陶瓷的生产和消费。 这样，本论文将重写第二个千年后半叶西里西亚的叙述，为赫梯帝国主义提供新的见解，并为人类学学科内关于帝国的辩论做出贡献。在更广泛的范围内，该项目将分析旧发掘的材料，为该地区正在进行的研究提供相关数据，促进国际合作，并将休眠的考古材料转化为教学资源。 这项研究中的陶瓷是在 20 世纪 30 年代出土的，当时许多技术要么不可用，要么还处于起步阶段。 对先前挖掘的材料进行重新分析及其随后在学术期刊和会议论文中的传播对该学科至关重要。 该项目生成的矿物学和地球化学数据将成为塔尔苏斯-格兹吕库勒以及该地区其他几个地点当前发掘的资产，这些数据的交换将促进美国和土耳其研究人员之间的国际合作。 最后，为岩相学产生的数据和薄片将被纳入布林莫尔学院的研究生和本科生课程，从而有助于培养新一代考古学家。