4th KIM

THE 4th INTERNATIONAL MEETING AT KÜLTEPE

August 1-4, 2019

Cultural Exchanges at Kültepe and Surroundings

from 4th to the 1st Millennium BC

The data obtained during 70 years of archaeological excavations have been presented and discussed at various meetings and conferences. The major aim of the Kültepe International Meeting (KIM) series, which was held for the first time in summer 2013 and takes place every two years, is to generate synergizing interactions among researchers studying the site of Kültepe or the ancient city of Kaneš, and thus to bring together archaeologists and philologists in the scope of multidisciplinary studies, in order to present and discuss their work.

In line with the same objectives, the 4th Kültepe International Meeting (KIM) takes place on August 1-4, 2019 at Kültepe. It gathers the archaeologists and experts collaborating with Kültepe excavations and the philologists who are working on specific archives. This meeting is  organized in two sessions:

  1. Work in progress in history, philology, art history and all the sub-disciplines of archaeology and archaeometry.
  1. Cultural Exchanges at Kültepe and Surroundings from 4th to the 1st Millennium BC: Archaeological and philological data have shown that Kültepe was in close contacts with its neighbors since the earliest periods. The main objectives of this session is to highlight and discuss these interactions that concern not only Kültepe but also the entire area covered by the Assyrian trade network, using both archaeological and textual sources.

KIM4 2019 programme

KIM4 2019 abstracts

Programme

 

Thursday, August 1st

 8:15                                          Buses leave Kayseri

8:45 – 9:00                              Registration at Kültepe

9:00 – 9:30                              Conference Opening, Welcome and Introduction: Fikri Kulakoğlu, Cécile Michel & Guido Kryszat

Session 1: Sealing and Writing                              Chair: Guido Kryszat

9:30 – 10:00                           Nejat & Zeynep Bilgen: Seyitömer Mound Early Bronze Age IIIb Cylindrical Seals

10:00 – 10:30                         Néhémie Strupler & Andreas Schachner: Broken and kept: Sealing practices in Ḫattuš

10:30 – 11:00                         Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30                         Jan Gerrit Dercksen: OA scribal education in its wider, Mesopotamian context, with particular emphasis on practical vocabularies and their usefulness to Assyrian pupils

11:30 – 12:00                         Wiebke Beyer:  Learning in Old Assyrian families?

12:00 – 13:30                          Lunch

Session 2: New Discoveries at Kültepe                  Chair: Adam Anderson

13:30 – 14:00                          Kazuya Shimogama (Speaker), Ryoichi Kontani, Akinori Uesugi, Yuji Yamaguchi & Fikri Kulakoğlu: Deep Sounding in Search for the Earliest Levels at Kültepe: New Results and the Early Bronze Age Ceramic Sequence in the North of Kültepe

14:00 – 14:30                          Fikri Kulakoğlu: Two Recent Collective finds at Kültepe: Alabaster İdols and Figurines Discovered in the EBA Monumental Buildings

14:30 – 15:00                          Evren Yazgan, Nihal Çevik, Cihan Ay, & Fikri Kulakoğlu: Petrographical and Mineralogical Studies of the Stone Tools Excavated at Kültepe

15:00 – 15:30                          Coffee break and poster session

Session 3: Kültepe People (1st part)                       Chair: Cécile Michel

15:30 – 16:00                          Handan Üstündağ & Mehmet Somel: Application of ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis in the reconstruction of population structure at Kültepe/Kanesh

16:00 – 16:30                          Jan Jakob de Ridder: There will be blood? Assyrian-Anatolian relations observed through ethnic designation

16:45 – 18:30 Guided Tour to the Kültepe Mound

 

Friday, August 2nd

 9:15                                        Buses leave Kayseri

 Session 3: Kültepe People (2nd part)                      Chair: Cécile Michel

10:00 – 10:30                          Xiaowen Shi: A Microscopic Observation on Anatolian Archives and Their Social Networks: the Case of Peruwa

 10:30 – 11:00                          Adam Anderson: Mixed-Method Approaches for Prosopographical Analysis: the co-location of people, places and things in the Kültepe Archives

 11:00 – 11:15                          Coffee break

 Session 4: Jewels and their Use                              Chair: Luca Peyronel

11:15 – 11:45                          Yılmaz Rıdvanoğulları & Fikri Kulakoğlu: Lead rings and ingots discovered at Kültepe-Kanesh Karum: Jewellery or swap tool?

11:45 – 12:15                          Cécile Michel: “I will fix a toggle pin on your breast” – New data about toggle pins in the Old Assyrian  sources

12:15 – 12:45                           Önder Ipek: Jewellery in Hittite Art and a new discovery: The Çitli Golden Armlet

12:45 – 14:15                          Lunch

Session 5: Cultural Exchanges                               Chair: Jan Jakob de Ridder

14:15 – 14:45                         Luca Peyronel & Agnese Vacca: When different worlds meet: exchange networks in Anatolia and Northern Levant during the 3rd millennium BC

14:45 – 15:15                         Sudo Hiroshi: Canaanean blades from Kültepe, Central Anatolia: Reconsidering the trade of domestic items in the Early Bronze Age

15:15 – 15:30                         Coffee break and poster session

15:30 – 16:00                         Guido Kryszat: Look to the West – New Horizons on early Assyrian History

16:00 – 16:30                         Adam Anderson: Untangeling the ‘Ušinalam Affair’: contextualizing a sparse series of cross-cultural exchanges

16:45 – 18:30   Guided Tour to the Lower Town of Kültepe

 

Saturday, August 3rd

9:15                                         Buses leave Kayseri

Session 6: Kültepe and Cappadocia           Chair: Selim Ferruh Adalı

10:00 – 10:30                          Çetin Şenkul e.a.: Genesis of Beyşehir Occupation Phase: Understanding Socio-Environmental Systems of Anatolia and Interactions from Kültepe-Kaniş

10:30 – 11:00                          Emin Candansayar: Geophysical Studies conducted at Kültepe

11:00 – 11:30                          Abdullah Hacar: Cultural Exchanges in Cappadocia during Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age: recent results of the archaeological survey in south western Cappadocia

11:30 – 11:45                          Coffee break

11:45 – 12:15                          Nancy Highcock: The Early and Middle Bronze Ages at Kınık Höyük, Niğde: New Results from Southern Cappadocia

12:15 – 12:45                          Mehmet Akif Günen: Presentation of Kültepe excavation area with augmented reality

12:45 – 14:00                          Lunch

Session 7: The Later Periods                                 Chair: Fikri Kulakoğlu

14:00 – 14:30                          Amir Gilan: Kaneš in Hittite Historical Consciousness

14:30 – 15:00                          Selim Ferruh Adalı: Reflections on the Late Assyrian Dry Phase in Iron Age Anatolia

15:00 – 15:30                          Coffee Break and poster session

15:30 – 16:00                          Mustafa H. Sayar: Connections between Cilicia and Cappadocia during the first half of the Ist millennium BC

16:00 – 16:30                          Burcu Tüysüz: Preliminary Remarks on Black Glazed Pottery Discovered at Kültepe

16:30 – 18:00                          All: General discussion (Publication of the Proceedings, Ongoing research etc.)

 

Sunday, August 4th

 

 Excursion to Kayalıpınar and Kuşaklı excavation sites (A. Müller-Karpe)

 

Programme to be downloaded here

Abstracts to be dowloaded here




Séminaire SHAMO 2019: Regards croisés sur l’économie végétale du Soudan à la Mésopotamie

Les séminaires SHAMO « Regards croisés sur l’économie végétale du Soudan à la Mésopotamie » concernent les années 2018 et 2019. La première série de séances, en 2018, a porté sur les céréales, le bois et les matières ligneuses. La deuxième série de séances en 2019 portera sur le bois et les matières ligneuses, les plantes liées à l’industrie textile, les potagers et les vergers.

Les jeudis de 14h à 16h en Salle du Conseil (sauf le 7 février : rez-de-jardin salle 1)

4e étage de la Maison Archéologie et Ethnologie, Nanterre

Programme à télécharger ici.

  1. 24 janvier 2018 : Le bois est ses usages 1 (30-35 mn par participant)

Cécile Michel : Le bois et ses usages dans les textes paléo-assyriens

Franck Monnier : Les végétaux comme matériau et éléments de décoration dans l’architecture égyptienne

Gabrielle Thiboutot : Bois et plantes utilisés dans la production des portraits funéraires du Fayoum

 

  1. 7 février : Les potagers en Égypte (salle 1 Rez-de-Jardin)

Damien Agut et Adeline Bats : Lentilles et haricots dans les potagers d’Égypte

 

  1. 21 février : Fibres textiles végétales et produits tinctoriaux végétaux

Charlène Bouchaud : Fibres textiles au Proche-Orient : données archéobotaniques

Louise Quillien : Fibres textiles et produits tinctoriaux en Mésopotamie du Ier millénaire av. J.-C.

 

  1. 14 mars : Le bois et ses usages 2

Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer : Identifier les réseaux économiques et sociaux du bois : cas d’études et perspectives de recherche

Valérie Schram : Les bois d’Egypte à l’époque gréco-romaine: l’apport des sources papyrologiques grecques

 

  1. 28 mars : Les jardins en Mésopotamie

Brigitte Lion : Les plantes des jardins dans les textes des IIe et Ier millénaires

Béatrice Muller : Les plantes des jardins dans l’iconographie mésopotamienne et syrienne

 

  1. 11 avril : Les potagers au Proche-Orient

Francis Joannès : Potagers et vergers dans les textes babyloniens du Ier millénaire av. J.-C.

Vladimir Dabrowski : Diversité des cultures aux périodes antique et islamique dans la région du golfe Persique : approches archéobotaniques