Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: the Case of Başur Höyük, a Royal Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World
| dc.contributor.author | Wengrow, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hassett, Brenna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saglamtimur, Haluk | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marsh, William | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brace, Selina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Birch, Suzanne E. Pilaar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barnes, Ian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-16T00:17:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-16T00:17:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | On the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates, archaeologists encounter evidence that challenges conventional understandings of early state formation as a transition from 'small-scale, egalitarian' to 'large-scale, stratified' societies. One such location is the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Ba & scedil;ur H & ouml;y & uuml;k, which presents evidence of grand funerary rituals-including 'retainer burials' and spectacular deposits of metallic wealth-in an otherwise small-scale, egalitarian setting. A further, puzzling feature of this cemetery is the preponderance of teenagers in the richest tombs. Here we describe the combined results of archaeological and anthropological analysis at Ba & scedil;ur H & ouml;y & uuml;k, including ancient DNA, and consider the challenges they pose to traditional accounts of early state formation. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/R00353X/1]; AHRC Research Grant; Radical Death and Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East [BB/S019669/1]; AHRC | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Research presented in this article was funded by an AHRC Research Grant (AH/R00353X/1), 'Radical Death and Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East.' The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the AHRC and UKRI, and for their advice and input, the members of our project's advisory board: Roger Matthews (Reading University), Susan Pollock (Free University, Berlin), Mike Parker-Pearson (UCL), and Danielle Antoine (British Museum). We also wish to thank the Research/Scientific Computing teams at The James Hutton Institute and NIAB for providing computational resources and technical support for the 'UK's Crop Diversity Bioinformatics HPC' (BBSRC grant BB/S019669/1), use of which has contributed to the results reported within this manuscript. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0959774324000398 | |
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| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge Univ Press | en_US |
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| dc.title | Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: the Case of Başur Höyük, a Royal Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World | en_US |
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| gdc.description.department | Artuklu University | en_US |
| gdc.description.departmenttemp | [Wengrow, David] UCL Inst Archaeol, 31-34 Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PY, England; [Hassett, Brenna] Univ Cent Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, England; [Saglamtimur, Haluk; Batihan, Oznur Ozmen] Ege Univ, Erzene,Merkez Yerleskesi, TR-35040 Bornova, Izmir, Turkiye; [Marsh, William; Brace, Selina; Barnes, Ian] Nat Hist Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, England; Univ Georgia, Dept Anthropol, 210 Field St,Room 204, Athens, GA 30602 USA; [Birch, Suzanne E. Pilaar] Univ Georgia, Dept Geog, 210 Field St,Room 204, Athens, GA 30602 USA; [Baysal, Emma L.] Bilkent Univ, Univ, TR-06800 Cankaya, Ankara, Turkiye; [Batihan, Metin] Mardin Artuklu Univ, Nur Mh Diyarbakir Yolu Yenisehir Yerleskesi, TR-47200 Artuklu, Mardin, Turkiye; [Aydogan, Inan] Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam Univ, Bati Cevreyolu Bulv 251-A, TR-46050 Onikisubat, Turkiye | en_US |
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