EXCAVATIONS AND RESEARCHES AT ARSLANTEPE-MALATYA (TURKEY)

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2017
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Lucia Mori Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Cristiano Vignola Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente il gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member of the research group
Laura Sadori Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
Francesca Balossi Restelli Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project
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Gian Maria Di Nocera Associate Prof. Università della Tuscia, Viterbo Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giulio Palumbi Researcher Maison de l'Orient, CNRS, Lyon (France) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Federico Manuelli Researcher DFG Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Corrado Alvaro tecnico laureato /graduate technician Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Roberta Bollati Restorer Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Lucia Ghedin Restorer Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Elena Cagnoni Restorer Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Romina Laurito Archaeologist Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Etruria Meridionale Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Catherine Kuzucuoglu Researcher, geomorphologist CNRS, Paris (France) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Damase Mouralis Geologist, Associate Professor Université de Rouen, Dept. de Geographie (France) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Thomas Stoellner Full Professor Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, and Bergbau Museum, Bochum (Germany) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Noelle Provenzano Researcher UMR 5140, CNRS, and Université Paul Valery, Montpellier (France) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Andreas M. Hauptmann Emeritus Professor Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, and Bergbau Museum, Bochum (Germany) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Susanna Cereda PhD student University of Vienna Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Davide D'Errico PhD student Leiden (Netherland) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giuseppina Fazio Restorer Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Pamela Fragnoli Topoi scholarship Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Patrizia Costa archaeologist, specialised Università della Tuscia, Viterbo Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giovanna Liberotti Dottore di Ricerca Università dell'Aquila Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Elisa Biancifiori archaeologist, topographer Università Sapienza di Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Sara Chirico Restorer Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giulia Toppan Restorer, Student Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Raquel Delgado Llata Restorer, Student Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giacomo Perna Restorer, student Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Moritz Jansen PhD student, geologist University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Rossella Atlante Archaeolgist Università Sapienza di Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Giovanni Siracusano archaeo-zoologist, PhD Kiel University Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Tiziana D'Este drawer Accademia d'Arte, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Alice Siracusano drawer master, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Roberto Ceccacci photographer Scuola di Fotografia, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Francesco Di Filippo Researcher ISMA, CNR, Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Yilmaz S. Erdal Full professor Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Holly Pittman Full Professor Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia (USA) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Filippo Terrasi Full Professor Università di Napoli Federico II Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Laszlo Bartosiewicz Full Professor, Zoo-archaeology Stockholm University, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm (Sweden) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Alice Choyke Researcher Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Bulent Arikan Associate Professor Technical University of Istanbul, Department of Evolution and Ecosystem, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences (Turkey) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Maria Bianca D'Anna PhD student Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Nur Tosunoglu PhD student Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey) Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Daniela Zampetti Researcher (retired) Sapienza Università di Roma Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Clara Grifoni archaeologist, specialized Udine-Trieste-Venezia Specialization School in Archaeology Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution
Abstract

ARSLANTEPE-MALATYA, Eastern Turkey, is a 30 m. high mound with a long sequence of levels from the 6th mill.BC to the Byzantine period. The many years of estensive and stratigraphic excavation have brought to light the history of the site and the whole SE Anatolian region at the border of the Mesopotamian world. The researches at the site have allowed to better understand the origin of crucial phenomena such as the rise of the State and hierarchical societies.
The discovery of the first example of a palatial complex from 3300 BC with a great deal of in situ materials, among which thousands of seal impressions, has allowed us to reconstruct the birth of bureaucracy and centralized economy. The recent discovery of hundreds of sealings in an earlier temple area and that of a monumental "audience" building in the palace give information on an extraordinary precocious secularization
of power.
The sequence of Early Bronze levels (3rd mill.BC) have revealed the dynamics of collapse of this early palatial system and the complex relationships between pastoral nomadic and sedentary rural components in the area.
In the NE part of the site, a long and interesting sequence of the 2nd and 1st millennia BC shows that Arslantepe underwent crucial changes in the periods of formation, expansion and collapse of the Hittite Empire in Central Anatolia and became a capital of its region, strategic border between the main Near Eastern civilizations.
Recently, Arslantepe has been included by the Turkish authorities in the provisional list of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, a process which requires new and more compelling obligations of research, conservation and public archaeology development.
In recognition of the important results obtained, the director has been elected Foreign Member of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES and has obtained the DE SICA PRIZE FOR SCIENCE (2015) and ROTONDI PRIZE (2017). A DISCOVERY AWARD has been granted to the project
by the Shanghai Archaelogy Forum.

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