R15 - The Neolithic of the Aegean and Beyond: Supra-Regional Networks and Local Communities

Session Organisers: Agathe Reingruber, Zafer Derin, Eylem Özdoğan

Category: Anatolia / Southeastern Europe

Session Abstract: The Circum-Aegean world is at the same time part of the Mediterranean and separated from it by large islands. This interactive space that formed around the Aegean Sea offered many advantages to seafaring peoples since Mesolithic times or even before: a well-connected and authentic place where not only people and materials, but, above all, ideas circulated rapidly. Since the Mesolithic, and especially with the Neolithic way of life, interactions between its eastern and western parts resulted in a material and immaterial culture distinguishable from the surrounding areas. Nevertheless, the Circum-Aegean is far from being a uniform space, since there are numerous differences traceable between the various regions, such as the islands, the Anatolian coast and the Greek mainland. Through new research carried out in recent years in especially in the eastern Aegean area (in Anatolia) but also in the west (in Macedonia and Thessaly), another aspect has become even clearer: the possibility of defining inside the broader regions local styles in pottery production and material culture. In this session, we aim to discuss both the beginnings of the Neolithic way of life against the background of the Mesolithic, as well as the subsequent transformations culminating in the early/mid sixth millennium BC. Special attention shall be given to the internal dynamics within the Aegean and the exchange with the surrounding areas: on the Anatolian side with the Marmara region up to the Bosporus in the north and with the Lake District down to the Mediterranean coast in the south; on the European side via river systems with the north and northwest. The session welcomes contributions on material culture, chronology and terminology, various aspects of regional cultures and interregional networks. As it is not possible to adequately study the Circum-Aegean Neolithic without interdisciplinary approaches, we explicitly welcome presentations on environmental aspects, archaeometry and bioarchaeology. In this way, we aim to highlight the originality of Aegean Neolithic societies in their various aspects.

Room: L

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska	Exotics: kick-starting the earliest hunter-gatherer - farmer networks in Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans
13:20 - 13:40	Deniz Sarı	Short-term Hilltop and Cave Settlements during the Neolithic Period: The Case of Keçiçayırı and Gedikkaya Sites
13:40 - 14:00	Neyir Kolankaya-Bostancı, Erkan Fidan	Bahçelievler Neolithic Chipped Stone Assemblage: Local Tradition and Interregional Contacts
14:00 - 14:20	Ivan Gatsov, Petranka Nedelcheva	Lithic Technologies and the Raw Material Supply as an Adaptive Strategy in the Settlement Patterns of Marmara Sea Region During 7-6 mill BC

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Şengül Aydıngün	Istanbul Lagoons Neolithic Finds
15:00 - 15:15	Fulya Dedeoğlu	Looking the Aegean from Inner Southwest Anatolia: Ekşi Höyük and its relations and interactions
15:15 - 15:30	Harun Taşkıran	A Late Neolithic Cave Settlement in Southwest Anatolia: Suluin
15:30 - 15:45	Aslıhan Beyazıt	The Origin of Paint Decorated Pottery from the Neolithic Period in the Burdur-Antalya Region
15:45 - 16:00	Aysel Arslan	Unveiling Community Identities: Tracing Clay Object Makers via Ancient Fingerprints

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:45	Zafer Derin	Yeşilova Höyük and the Neolithic “Coastal Aegean Culture”
16:45 - 17:00	Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Alper Yener Yavuz, Erhan Tarhan	Lion King and the others: Preliminary results of faunal analysis of Yeşilova Höyük, İzmir.
17:00 - 17:15	Ali Ozan, Haluk Sağlamtimur	An overview of the Neolithisation of Western Anatolia: What does the Ege Gübre settlement tell us about the Neolithisation of the coastal Aegean?
17:15 - 17:30	Aydın Cura	Spread of Round Shaped Objects identified as Sling Missiles in the Aegean during the Neolithic Period
17:30 - 17:45	Simona V. Todaro	Red Ochre and Seafaring? Some implications for connectivity in the southern Aegean during the Neolithic

07/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Dilek Koptekin, Ayça Aydoğan, N Ezgi Altınışık, Kıvılcım B Vural, D Deniz Kazancı, Cansu Karamurat, Ayça Doğu, Damla Kaptan, Hasan Can Gemici, Gülsün Umurtak, Erkan Fidan, Özlem Çevik, Burçin Erdoğu, Taner Korkut, Christopher J. Knüsel, Scott Donald Haddow, Eylem Özdoğan, Mehmet Özdoğan, Fokke Gerritsen, Rana Özbal, Uygar Ozan Usanmaz, Yasin Cemre Derici, Mine Uçmazoğlu, Anders Götherström, Çiğdem Atakuman, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Füsun Özer, Mehmet Somel	Unravelling Cultural and Genetic Interactions during the Aegean Neolithization
10:20 - 10:40	Lily Bonga	Island Neolithic of the Aegean Sea
10:40 - 11:00	Michael Boyd, David Smith, Jill Hilditch, Evi Margaritis, Joshua Wright, Giorgos Gavalas, Demetris Athanasoulis, Marisa Marthari, Katerina Dellaporta, Colin Renfrew	Integrated approaches to emerging later Neolithic Islandscapes in the Cyclades
11:00 - 11:20	Peter Tomkins	Regional diversity in the adoption of pottery in the Aegean during the late seventh millennium BC. A new view from Knossos, Crete.

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Lia Karimali, Stella Papadopoulou	Neolithic obsidian Melian network in Greece: patterns of circulation and technical traits
13:15 - 13:30	Tristan Carter	Building Castles on Sand: Current Models on the Impact of Insular Aegean Hunter-Gatherer Populations on Neolithisation Processes
13:30 - 13:45	Denis Guilbeau	The relations between Aegean, Anatolia, Balkans between the 7th and the 5th millennium through the analysis of the chipped stone industry of Uğurlu (Gökçeada/Imbros Island)
13:45 - 14:00	Eylem Özdoğan	Early Neolithic in the Northern Aegean and Eastern Thrace: Cultural Contexts and Regional Connections
14:00 - 14:15	Hüreyla Balcı	An Archaeobotanical Perspective to the Neolithization of North Aegean through Hoca Çeşme Neolithic Site

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Katerina Trantalidou	Before surplus production: foragers and food producers in inland and island caves of the Southern Balkan-Aegean area
15:00 - 15:15	Agathe Reingruber, Giorgos Toufexis	Flat sites of the late 7th and early 6th millennium BC in Thessaly, Central Greece (and beyond)
15:15 - 15:30	Goce Naumov, Agathe Reingruber	Dating the Early Neolithic of Pelagonia: closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory
15:30 - 15:45	Jean-Paul Demoule	Kovacevo and the oldest Neolithic villages in the Balkans
15:45 - 16:00	Sevdalina Tsaneva, Vassil Nikolov, Galina Samichkova, Viktoria Petrova	Late Neolithic pit sanctuaries at Maritsa River Bend in Northern Thrace