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Chapter 4 - Mersin-Yumuktepe in the 7th Millennium BC

The Social Dimension of Technological Changes

from Part I - Upper Mesopotamia and Eastern Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2022

By
Isabella Caneva
Edited by
Peter F. Biehl  and
Eva Rosenstock
Peter F. Biehl
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Eva Rosenstock
Affiliation:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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Summary

The long, uninterrupted sequence of Neolithic Yumuktepe displays both continuity and changes concerning architecture, burial customs, artifact production, storage techniques and subsistence pattern throughout the entire Neolithic, and also around 6000 cal BC. This chapter describes the continuities, gradual and abrupt changes that can be observed, and approaches the questions whether continuity should be emphasized over change, how noncontemporary changes can be correlated, and changes of which parts of the material culture could be more significant than continuity in other parts.

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Wattle-and-daub architecturestone-based architectureDark-Faced Burnished WareStratigraphy
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6000 BC
Transformation and Change in the Near East and Europe
 , pp. 54 - 63
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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