Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware from Cilicia and the Amuq valley (South Anatolia): Archaeological and Archaeometrical Investigations of the Provenance of a characteristic Late Bronze Age Pottery

该项目的目的是利用考古测量方法对红色有光泽的轮制陶器(RL-Ware)的生产地进行本地化，并获得有关赫人与地中海东部邻国社会的社会文化关系的信息。RL-Ware是地中海东部大片地区发现的最具特色的青铜时代晚期陶瓷类型之一。RL-Ware的地理分布从安纳托利亚中部和南部、塞浦路斯、黎凡特一直延伸到埃及。这种陶器在安纳托利亚的分布模式与赫梯人的心脏地带和西里西亚有关。在配送区域内发现的高质量的器皿使RL-Ware与其他地区之间交换的奢侈品有所不同。从这个意义上说，它可以与迈锡尼和塞浦路斯的器皿相媲美。RL-Ware与迈锡尼和塞浦路斯陶器一样，展示了青铜时代晚期地中海东部地区之间的文化联系。但RL-Ware的分布模式明显不同于迈锡尼和塞浦路斯的陶瓷。RL-Ware曾进行过几次考古和考古测量研究，但仍有一些问题没有答案，特别是它的来源。这使得它在考古学背景下的解释变得困难。因此，该项目的主要目标是利用考古测量方法确定RL-Ware的来源。该项目的重点是来自Alalakh、Bogazköy/Hattusa和Kilise Tepe的RL-Ware材料，以及来自中Anatolien、南Anatolia和北塞浦路斯的粘土样品。目前，正在进行的项目中正在使用考古方法对它们进行分析。关于RL-Ware的新出版物以及该项目的初步结果产生了结果，应通过对南安纳托利亚当地粘土样本和塞浦路斯西部粘土样本的进一步考古分析来核实这些结果。

The aim of this project is to localize the production place of the Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware (RL-Ware) using archaeometric methods and to obtain information on the socio-cultural relations of the Hittites to the neighbor societies in the eastern Mediterranean. RL-Ware is one of the most characteristic Late Bronze Age ceramic types uncovered in a large area in the eastern Mediterranean. Geographical distribution of the RL-Ware stretches from Central and Southern Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant to Egypt. The distribution pattern of the ware within Anatolia is related to the Hittite heartland and Cilicia. The high quality of the ware found within the distribution area makes RL-Ware different from the other luxury goods exchanged between the regions. In this sense, it is comparable to the Mycenaean and Cypriote ware. RL-Ware, like the Mycenaean and cypriote ware, demonstrates interregional cultural contacts in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age. But the distribution pattern of RL-Ware is clearly different from the Mycenaean and Cypriote ceramics.RL-Ware was subject of several archaeological and also archaeometric studies, however there are some questions which are still not answered, particularly its provenance. This makes its interpretation in the archaeological context difficult. Therefore, the main objective of the project is to determine the provenance of the RL-Ware using archaeometric methods. The focus of the project is RL-Ware materials from Alalakh, Bogazköy/Hattusa and Kilise Tepe and clay samples from Central-Anatolien, South Anatolia and North Cyprus. Currently, they are being analyzed using archaeometric methods in ongoing project. New publications on RL-Ware as well as preliminary results of this project yield results that should be verified by further archaeometric analysis of local clay samples from South-Anatolia as well as clay samples from Western Cyprus.