Nur Balkan-Atl ı's research while affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and other places

... When a light is shone through the sculpture's left eye (the one most visible as a result of rodent burrowing), the source can be attributed with 94-97% confidence to the East Göllü Dağ volcanic range, (Fig. 28.9) and tentatively to the sub-source of Kayırlı-Kabaktepe, where large amounts of Neolithic workshop waste have been recovered (Binder and Balkan-Atlı 2001). This conclusion is based on the complete transparency and slight purple-grey tint apparent when looking through the obsidian, attributes exclusively associated with Type 6 in the visual characterization scheme originally introduced by Kayacan and Milić (Archive Report 2008). ...

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Çatalhöyük 2015 Archive Report by members of the Çatalhöyük Research Project 2 Edited and compiled

... This paper has detailed and explained the variability of Göllüda g obsidian resources that was still unsolved recently despite a presentation of our preliminary results in 2003 (Gratuze et al., 2005) and further questions asked by Poupeau et al. (2005). The geochemical results presented here are in a good accordance with the field observations and with the volcanic evolution of the Göllüda g complex. ...

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New investigations of the Göllüdaĝ obsidian lava flows system: A multi-disciplinary approach

... Ongoing analysis of the materials shows valuable preliminary results. Furthermore, several atelier excavations are being undertaken, for example, in Kaletepe dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Balkan-Atlı et al. 1999, Balkan-Atlı andBinder 2001) where excavations revealed extraordinary results on the production technology of parallelsided long blades obtained from preformed naviform cores. The long blades obtained from these cores were used in central Anatolian sites and distributed to northern Mesopotamia, the Levant and Cyprus (Binder 2002:83;2007:244). ...

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A Conspectus on the Status of Tepecik-Çiftlik Excavation (Cappadocia): Intersite and Regional Outcomes and Prospects

... The importance of Central Anatolian pyroclastic deposits related to the Göllüdağ and Acıgöl rhyolitic complexes also arises from increasingly challenging archaeological topics. In the Göllüdağ massif, recent surveys, excavations, and geoarchaeological investigations focused on prehistoric workshops associated with obsidian outcrops (Balkan-Atlı and Binder 2000;Balkan-Atlı et al. 2011;Kuhn et al. 2015). A significant amount of geochemical analyses for both artefacts and raw material in and around these ryholitic complex is now available (Binder et al. 2011;. ...

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Tephrostratigraphy and chronology of the Quaternary Gölludağ and Acıgöl volcanic complexes (Central Anatolia, Turkey)

... To date, most studies concerned with the Aşıklı Höyük chipped stone assemblages have focused on material from Level 2 (Abbès et al. 1999;Balkan-Atlı 1994a;Balkan-Atlı et al. 2001;Yıldırım-Balcı 2007Astruc et al. 2011). Geochemical analyses (Gratuze et al. 1994Gratuze -Boucetta 2006) have shown that the Göllü Dağ and to a lesser extent the Nenezi Dağ outcrops were the main sources of raw material used at Aşıklı Höyük. ...

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Obsidian Use during the Level 4 occupation at Aşıklı Höyük

... Several projects have been developed in the last decades concerning obsidian in this region. These have focused on geology, physico-chemical characterization of sources and volcanic structures (Balkan- Atlı and Binder, 2012); (Balkan Atlı et al., 2008) ; (Binder et al., 2011) ; ; , chemical analysis of artefacts (Carter et al., 2013); ; (Poupeau et al., 2010) and synthesis on the systems of trade (Balkan Atlı et al., 1998); (Balkan Atlı et al., 2008) ; . However, our knowledge about other raw materials exploited for chipped stone, such as flint, remains limited. ...

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The Non-Obsidian knapped stone assemblages from Çatalhöyük West (Central Anatolia, Early Chalcolithic): Contribution of a multi-scale approach at the question of chert sourcing

... As for chipped stone assemblages, research on sourcing obsidians (from the Anatolia/Zagros regions) has progressed steadily and significantly for many decades, (e.g. Balkan-Atli et al., 1999;Carter et al., 2021;Cauvin et al., 1998;Delerue, 2007;Frahm and Hauck, 2017;Frahm and Tryon, 2019;Ibañ ez et al., 2015;Moutsiou, 2019;Renfrew et al., 1966;Robin et al., 2015). For the sourcing of knappable flint/chert raw materials, the situation is variable in the southern Levant, and the 'fingerprinting' of specific sources is quite complex. ...

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‘Far and wide’: Social networking in the Early Neolithic of the Levant