Ulucak Höyük: The Pottery Emergence in Western Anatolia

Özlem Çevik; Osman Vuruşkan

doi:10.4312/dp.47.6

Authors

Özlem Çevik Trakya University, Department of Archaeology, Edirne, Turkey
Osman Vuruşkan Trakya University, Department of Archaeology, Edirne, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.47.6

Keywords:

Ulucak Höyük, Neolithic, pottery, Western Anatolia, pre-ceramic

Abstract

It has been increasingly clear that pottery was adopted as a continuous technology during the first quarter of the 7th millennium BC in a wide region, from Upper Mesopotamia through Central Anatolia and the Lakes District region. However, the absence of pottery in the basal level at Ulucak Höyük shows the presence of a pre-ceramic sequence in western Anatolia, before c. 6600/6500 cal BC. This article discusses the earliest pottery assemblage from Ulucak (6600/6500–6200 cal BC) and compares it with the later ceramic sequences at the site. Ultimately, the functional and typological developmental sequence of Neolithic pottery at Ulucak Höyük and its temporo-spatial relations with other Neolithic sites in Anatolia will be assessed.