2/14/2019 Land of Plenty? - New archaeometric insights into Central Anatolian Early Bronze Age metal consumption in funeral contexts | Antiquity Journal http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/zimmerman314/ 1/7 Land of Plenty? - New archaeometric insights into Central Anatolian Early Bronze Age metal consumption in funeral contexts Thomas Zimmermann & Tayfun Yıldırım Introduction The prehistoric occupation of the Central Anatolian plateau, with its barely forested, hilly landscape and dry, grassland steppes remained largely obscure until the 1930s, when the first generation of Turkish archaeologists explored numerous Bronze Age sites in the vicinity of Ankara and Çorum (see Özdoğan 2005: 34-6 for a recent account). The most famous harvest of these expeditions is still the evidence from the site Article details First published in: Issue 314, Volume 81 December 2007 Other Project Gallery articles from this issue: Dating the onset of cereal cultivation in Britain and Ireland: the evidence from charred cereal grains (/projgall/brown314) The site of Rubas-1 in Dagestan as evidence of the existence of a /) Search Antiquity (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity) Subscribe (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/subscribe) Submit a Paper (/submit-paper) Contact (/contact) HOME (/) ABOUT (/ABOUT) LATEST ISSUE (/LATEST) ANTIQUITY OPEN (/OPEN) ALL ISSUES (/ISSUES)