1. Using Network Analysis to Examine Relative
Resource Procurement Strategies in Anatolia
and Southwest Asia from the Epi-Palaeolithic
to Chalcolithic Periods (14000 - 5700 BP)
Zack Batist & Tristan Carter
McMaster University
Archaeological Institute of America,
Annual Meeting 2014 - Chicago

2. Obsidian Sources

3. Chataigner et al. 1998
Delerue 2007

4. Interaction Zones
Roaf 1990

5. Dataset
PERIOD
RANGE
0 / 1 / 2 14000 - 9600 BP
# OF SITES
< 10
3
9600 - 8600 BP
22
4
8600 - 8000 BP
15
5
8000 - 7600 BP
15
6
7600 - 7000 BP
15
7
7000 - 6500 BP
13
8/9
6500 - 5700 BP
20
TOTAL 9600 - 5700 BP
100
~ 1/3 - 1/4 of the complete dataset

6. Distance-Decay Model

7. Proximal Point Analysis

8. Delerue 2007

10. Dja'de
Mureybet
13%
16%
2%
2%
160
22%
65%
80%
Brainerd-Robinson Coefficient
of Similarity: 160

11. Period 3
9000 - 8600 BP
Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

12. -5
80
k
70
m
m
20
0
-6
50
580
km
Period 3
9000 - 8600 BP
Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
5
6
k
20

13. Period 4
8600 - 8000 BP
Middle / Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

14. Period 5 and Period 6
8000 - 7600 BP / 7600 - 7000 BP
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C / Pottery Neolithic A

15. Period 7
7000 - 6500 BP
Pottery Neolithic A

16. Period 7
7000 - 6500 BP
Pottery Neolithic A
Larger amounts of Meydan Dag material

17. Period 8/9
6500 - 5700 BP
Pottery Neolithic B / Early Chalcolithic

18. Period 8/9
6500 - 5700 BP
Pottery Neolithic B / Early Chalcolithic

19. Network Analysis + GIS

21. How were certain material used?
Artefact
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Typology
Use-wear
Context
Specimen
Chemical composition
Volcanic source

22. Carter et al 2013

23. Moving forward…