Cultural Dynamics and Ceramic Resource Use at Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Troy, Northwestern Turkey

Changes in resource use over time can provide insight into technological choice and the extent of long-term stability in cultural practices. In this paper we re-evaluate the evidence for a marked demographic shift at the inception of the Early Iron Age at Troy by applying a robust macroscale analysis of changing ceramic resource use over the Late Bronze and Iron Age. We use a combination of new and legacy analytical datasets (NAA and XRF), from excavated ceramics, to evaluate the potential compositional range of local resources (based on comparisons with sediments from within a 10 km site radius). Results show a clear distinction between sediment-defined local and non-local ceramic compositional groups. Two discrete local ceramic resources have been previously identified and we confirm a third local resource for a major class of EIA handmade wares and cooking pots. This third source appears to derive from a residual resource on the Troy peninsula (rather than adjacent alluvial valleys). The presence of a group of large and heavy pithoi among the non-local groups raises questions about their regional or maritime origin. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Troy & Greenfield Railroad, New York and New England, ca. 1855 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the Troy & Greenfield Rail Road and its connections, [by] A.F. Edwards, chief engineer. It was published ca. 1855 by B.W. Thayer & Co.'s Lith. Scale not given. Covers Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of Maine and New York.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as railroads completed, chartered and under construction, drainage, selected cities, towns, and villages, state and county boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Troy and Greenfield Railroad : speech of Hon. Alvah Crocker, on the bill for the more speedy completion of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, in the Senate of Massachusetts, April 15, 1862.

At head of title: Troy and Greenfield Railroad.

The conquest of Troy. [music] : an opera in 3 acts /

Words in French and German.

Tables showing the value of silver and gold, per ounce Troy, at different degrees of fineness,

Mode of access: Internet.

Troy and Paeonia, with glimpses of ancient Balkan history and religion,

Mode of access: Internet.

The astonishing history of Troy town /

Spine title: Troy town.

A vindication of Homer and of the ancient poets and historians, who have recorded the siege and fall of Troy.

Mode of access: Internet.

Letter addressed as a circular to the members of the Willard Association for the Mutual Improvement of Female Teachers formed at the Troy Female Seminary, July 1837 /

Mode of access: Internet.

A manual of the principal instruments used in American engineering and surveying : manufactured by W. & L. E. Gurley, Troy, N.Y.

Cover title: Gurley's manual: American engineers' and surveyors' instruments.