An insight into Old Hittite metallurgy: alloying practices at Huseyindede (Corum, Turkey)


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Dardeniz G., SİPAHİ İ. T., YILDIRIM T.

ANATOLIAN STUDIES, cilt.69, ss.77-94, 2019 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 69
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1017/s006615461900005x
  • Dergi Adı: ANATOLIAN STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.77-94
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper presents archaeological and analytical data on metal artefacts from Huseyindede (corum, Turkey), dated to the Old Hittite period (ca 16th century BC). Huseyindede, which is set in a rural landscape, demonstrates continuity in alloying traditions from the Early Bronze Age III (ca 26th/25th-22nd/21st century BC) and the Assyrian Trading Colonies period (20th-18th century BC) to the emergence of the Hittites. In addition to known alloying practices of the period, the site presents, for the first time, evidence of the existence of copper-nickel alloys, namely cupronickel, which so far have been documented only at the Late Bronze Age capital of the Hittites, Bogazkoy/Hattusa. The Huseyindede cupronickel objects now pinpoint the presence of this technology to regions spreading out from the Halys basin from the Old Kingdom Hittite period.