Ayşe Bursalı
Graduate student at the Anthropology Department at University of Notre Dame.
Founder and writer at http://www.Arkeofili.com
MA in Archaeology and History of Art - Prehistoric Archaeology from Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey.
BA with an Honors in Anthropology and Minor in Classics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Founder and writer at http://www.Arkeofili.com
MA in Archaeology and History of Art - Prehistoric Archaeology from Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey.
BA with an Honors in Anthropology and Minor in Classics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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the seventh-millennium B.C.E. site of Barcın Höyük, located in northwest Anatolia, comprise the focus of this case study, examples of similar blue imitation turquoise beads from nearby contemporary Neolithic and/or Early Chalcolithic sites provide a comparative overview. The fact that turquoise sources lie far away not only likely imbued this semiprecious stone with spiritual importance, as argued by Mary Helms, but also allowed it presumably to function as a way of differentiating the
wearer from others.1 Such a situation evokes ideas of inequality with regard to access to raw materials, supporting Brian Hayden’s claim that social differences started well before the Neolithic.2 The blue beads from
Barcın Höyük, dating to the seventh millennium B.C.E., were created in imitation of turquoise. Our analyses, aimed at identifying the raw material, have demonstrated that a type of bone or fossil bone must have been
used and treated in various ways to achieve the blue color.
the seventh-millennium B.C.E. site of Barcın Höyük, located in northwest Anatolia, comprise the focus of this case study, examples of similar blue imitation turquoise beads from nearby contemporary Neolithic and/or Early Chalcolithic sites provide a comparative overview. The fact that turquoise sources lie far away not only likely imbued this semiprecious stone with spiritual importance, as argued by Mary Helms, but also allowed it presumably to function as a way of differentiating the
wearer from others.1 Such a situation evokes ideas of inequality with regard to access to raw materials, supporting Brian Hayden’s claim that social differences started well before the Neolithic.2 The blue beads from
Barcın Höyük, dating to the seventh millennium B.C.E., were created in imitation of turquoise. Our analyses, aimed at identifying the raw material, have demonstrated that a type of bone or fossil bone must have been
used and treated in various ways to achieve the blue color.