Technological Landscapes on the Sinop Promontory: Production and Circulation of Ceramic Objects in the Precolonial Era

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A maritime hub in the Greek colonial period, the Sinop promontory of Black Sea Turkey served as a center for the movement of goods and peoples since at least the Bronze Age. Previous work has established Sinop as one locale out of many in a Black Sea world constructed by seasonal fishers and spheres of trade and exchange alike. This poster revisits ceramic materials collected by the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project during extensive surveys of the Sinop region in the 1997-1999 field seasons. Employing handheld XRF, this research uses ceramic geochemical composition to reconstruct the technological landscape of the Sinop promontory in the Bronze and Early Iron Age in order to interrogate the relationship between the Sinop coast and its hinterland prior to Greek colonization of the region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52175