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Middle Bronze Age II Pottery Kiln at Oylum Höyük

Belleten · 2024, Cilt 88, Sayı 313 · Sayfa: 663-695 · DOI: 10.37879/belleten.2024.663
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Despite the newly acquired information with increasing studies in Türkiye, archaeological evidence regarding ceramic production in some regions and periods is still not sufficient. Although our knowledge about prehistoric and protohistoric pyrotechnology increases, we can currently say little about the size of ceramic production, the settlement and regional density of pottery kilns, their distribution, development and contexts, in short their roles. The pottery kiln discovered at Oylum Höyük in 2020 and dated to Middle Bronze Age II is in good physical condition compared to its contemporaries in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Oylum Höyük kiln is currently the best documented MBA kiln in Türkiye. Therefore, all its technological features could be identified, revealing valuable information for understanding pottery kiln technology and development. The kiln, consisting of three parts including ash pit, combustion chamber and firing chamber, can be described as an updraught kiln with an arched combustion chamber and a firing chamber with circular plan. Extensive data from the MBA pottery kilns unearthed in the Levant allows us to compare the Oylum Höyük kiln with its contemporaries and to conclude that it is typologically and technologically closer to the Levant kilns. The area, which was represented in the MBA I by a monumental structure probably with administrative function, started to be used as an industrial production site with several pyrotechnic installations in the early phase of MBA II. We can say with certainty that there was a radical change in the settlement organization.

Middle Bronze Age Pottery Kilns at Şaraga Höyük

Belleten · 2013, Cilt 77, Sayı 278 · Sayfa: 1-14
As a result of archeological research conducted on prehistoric and protohistoric periods in Anatolia a limited number of ceramic kilns were found. Therefore, two kilns, which have been found during the 2003 excavation season in Saraga Hoyuk and which belong to MBA II, are of great importance because they provide information regarding the ceramic production technology in the 2nd millennium B.C. One of these kilns is of big (Kiln 1) and the other is of small (Kiln 2) size. The both kilns show the similar work systems but both of them show same different features as the typologically. The kilns consist two chambers, in which the combustion and firing chambers. The kilns have heat transmission duct for the transfering of heat between combustion and firing chambers. Kiln 1 was used for firing of big size vessels and Kiln 2 for small size vessels. A few Middle Bronze Age pottery kiln were found in Southeast Anatolia and culturally related neighboring regions. Although, when we look Bronze and before age pottery kilns, we can say no radical shift has been empirically observed in the pottery firing techniques in the region. Kilns of Saraga Hoyuk proved that grooved rim ceramic group found along the Euphrates Valley has been produced locally at Saraga Hoyuk. The Middle Bronze Age level of Şaraga Höyük yielded material evidence for all stages of ceramic production at the site, including rotary stone, lumps of unbaked clay, pottery kilns of small and large sizes, scatters of ceramic wasters concentrated around the kilns, as well as intact ceramic vessels found in situ in the kilns.