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Recovery of archaeobotanical assemblages from Late Chalcolithic Bakla Tepe and Liman Tepe in western Anatolia has provided the opportunity for in-depth analysis of agricultural strategies and the organisation of farming-related activity at the two sites. We find that Late Chalcolithic farmers utilised five major crop taxa, potentially including two mixed crops. The two sites also provide the first evidence for Spanish vetchling and winged vetchling cultivation in prehistoric Anatolia and the earliest evidence for this practice to date anywhere. We suggest that the settlements were organised into small, co-residential households that processed and stored their own crops, but we also propose that potentially communal extra-household storage and high levels of social monitoring may attest to supra-household cooperation. The later agricultural history of the vetchling species and the prevalence of extra-household storage at sites in coastal western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean islands add to evidence for a cultural koine between these regions in the fourth and third millennia bc. We also suggest that the large size of extra-household storage structures and the narrow range of crops cultivated at some Late Chalcolithic sites are consistent with the emergence of more extensive farming systems than those of earlier periods. Evidence for the use of extensive agricultural production to amass arable wealth by the citadel elites of later Early Bronze Age western Anatolia suggests that the agro-ecological foundations for emergent wealth inequality within the region were laid during the Late Chalcolithic. Testing this hypothesis through direct evidence for the nature of Late Chalcolithic farming systems is a key aim of ongoing research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dutluca region is a location in central-west Anatolia that has not been surveyed much. The presence of a ceramic different from Hacılar and Lakes Region Early Chalcolithic painted wares was mentioned in Dutluca, which was first referred to by J. Mellaart. However, there is no detailed information. In the surveys we conducted in 2018 and 2019, two prehistoric settlements were revealed in Dutluca region. These are Dutluca Mound and Adatepe. Dutluca Mound is a settlement that started from the Early Neolithic period and continued until today. Adatepe, on the other hand, is a tophill settlement that was inhabited in Neolithic and Chalcolithic period. In the Neolithic period, monochrome pottery is generally similar. The painted wares of Hacılar are seen in a wide area in Southwest Anatolia. Paint decorated ware has an important place in dating the Early Chalcolithic Age ceramics. Especially the Early Chalcolithic painted sherds of Adatepe is important in terms of representing a tradition different from that of Hacılar painted sherds. Painted wares of the Dutluca region differ from those of Hacilar. This separation is due to the different paint decorations. In addition, the pits identified on Adatepe are not available anywhere else for now. The spread of Hacılar culture in the south of Western Anatolia and the spread of Fikirtepe culture in the north is evident. The presence of painted wares in Dutluca, which is located between these two cultural regions, is also important for understanding the cultural development process in Western Anatolia in the Early Chalcolithic Age and for establishing interregional relations. In the context of the Early Chalcolithic Age, it can be concluded that the Dutluca region can be considered as a separate cultural region such as the Lakes Region, Fikirtepe, and the West Anatolian shores. This manuscript evaluates Dutluca region and explains the prehistory of the region and the significance of Early Chalcolithic wares in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Diachronic survey in the Marmara Lake basin of western Turkey confirms long-term settlement activity from the 5th millennium b.c. to the present. Here we present the results from a study of ceramics and settlement distribution pertaining to the Chalcolithic through the Iron Age periods (ca. 5th/4th-1st millennium b.c.). Our dataset confirms the value of a multi-pronged approach when establishing ceramic typologies from survey datasets, incorporating distribution in the landscape with macroscopic, microscopic (petrographic), and chemical (Instrumental Neutron Activation) analyses. Our results offer valuable insights into continuity as well as change of ceramic recipes in western Anatolia during the rise of urbanism in the Middle to Late Bronze Age followed by the establishment of an imperial realm in the Iron Age. From a methodological perspective, our results illustrate the value of macroscopic and chemical approaches, including principal component, distribution, density, and discriminant analyses that can be refined further by petrography, for the interpretation of surface survey ceramics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Rising post-glacial sea levels had a major influence on the prehistoric settlement of the Aegean coastal zone. At Liman Tepe, an important Chalcolithic-Bronze Age coastal settlement on the south coast of the Bay of Izmir, archaeological evidence suggests a Neolithic (ca. 9600-5500 BCE) presence, but no settlement has been discovered on land. Sea levels during the Neolithic period were between 6 and >20 m below present and there is high potential for discovery of submerged prehistoric sites. Marine sediment coring and geophysical investigations (bathymetry, sub-bottom seismic profiling; >600 line-km) were conducted over a 4-km2 inshore area to assess the underwater archaeological potential. Multi-proxy sediment analysis (sedimentary facies, micropalaeontology, micro-XRF geochemistry) was conducted on 20 cores to reconstruct the relative sea level (RSL) history and coastal palaeogeography. Palaeoshoreline positions were estimated by back-stripping of the decompacted sediment thickness from a digital bathymetric model (DBM). The DBM reveals a drowned middle Holocene coastal plain with well-preserved relict river channels, palaeoshorelines and coastal headlands. The inshore stratigraphy consists of shoreface, foreshore and lagoonal deposits overlying terrestrial clay and palaeosols, defining a marine transgressive surface (MTS). The MTS records the inundation of the coastal plain prior to ca. 4000 BCE (transgressive systems tract; TST) and is marked in cores by an increasing abundance of foraminifera and a rise in Ca/Ti. During the Early Neolithic (ca. 6700 BCE), the shoreline was >500 m seaward (RSL ∼ −14 to −16 m) and Karantina Island was a broad coastal headland with a sheltered western embayment. By the Middle Chalcolithic (ca. 4800 BCE), the coastline had transgressed ∼800 m inland of the present shoreline and the Liman Tepe headland was separated from the mainland by a shallow coastal wetland. The maximum transgression (∼1 km inland at ca. 4000 BCE) was followed by a shift to a high-stand systems tract (HST) and rapid coastline progradation by barrier accretion and lagoon development. Palaeogeographic maps identify areas with high underwater archaeological potential: 1) palaeoriver channels and lowland riverine habitats formed during the TST, prior to 4000 BCE, 2) submerged palaeoshorelines and coastal promontories (water depths 10–14 mbsl) with high potential for Neolithic sites, and 3) protected coastal embayments and lagoons representing possible prehistoric anchorage sites. • Discovery of submerged, Neolithic-age landscape, south Bay of Izmir, Turkey. • Palaeogeography reconstructed using marine and land core data, geophysical surveys. • Relict river channels, paleoshorelines, drowned coastal headlands. • High archaeological potential for submerged prehistoric sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]