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A desolate landscape? Mobility and interaction in the chora of Klazomenai during the Early Iron Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2020

Elif Koparal*
Affiliation:
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey
Rik Vaessen
Affiliation:
RAAP Archaeological Consultancy, Netherlands

Abstract

Over the past two decades or so, excavations at Klazomenai have unearthed a wealth of information about the Early Iron Age, showing it to have been a thriving settlement at this time. Accordingly, it is intriguing that systematic surveys in the chora of Klazomenai have turned up very few sites that can be dated to this period. In this contribution, we discuss the implications of this discrepancy between the excavation data and the survey data in terms of the relationship between the settlement and its surrounding countryside. We argue that the lack of identified sites in the chora does not mean a lack of movement or that Klazomenai was an isolated spot in an otherwise desolate landscape. Furthermore, we discuss briefly how the developments that took place during the Early Iron Age ultimately led to the emergence of the polis at the beginning of the Archaic period. Our principal aim is to highlight the importance of the survey data, not only in terms of exploring the web of relations in which Klazomenai was tangled during the Early Iron Age, but also for highlighting in more detail the diversities that existed in ancient Ionia

Özet

Özet

Son yillarda Klazomenai'de yürütülen kazilar Erken Demir Çaği'na ait önemli bulgular ortaya koymuş ve bu yerleşimin sözkonusu dönemde oldukça canli sosyal ve ticari dinamiklere sahip olduğunu göstermiştir. Öte yandan yerleşimin çevresinde yürütülmekte olan yüzey araştirmalari bugüne dek pek az sayida Erken Demir Çaği yerleşimini belgeleyebilmiştir. Bu yazida üzerinde durmak istediğimiz ve tartistigimiz konu Erken Demir Çaği odağinda kazi ile yüzey araştirmasi sonuçlarinin uyumsuzluğu ve bunun gerekçeleridir. Yüzey arastirmalarinin yerleşimin çevresinde sayisi birkaçi asmayan Erken Demir Çaği yerleşimi saptayamamasi yerleşim merkezinin tümüyle izole olduğunu ve kirsal çevresini kullanmadiğinin göstergesi değildir. Bilakis elde edilen veriler işiğinda tartişildiğinda yerleşim merkezinde olduğu kadar çevresinde de canli bir sosyal ve ticari hayatin varliğindan söz edebilmemiz mümkündür.

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Articles
Copyright
© British Institute at Ankara 2020

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