6.2.

4 Summary

To sum up, a rather substantial number of pottery fragments collected during CAP can be dated to
the later part of the Early Bronze Age. The site of Kılıçlı Mağarası in particular appears to have been a
focal point of activity, while less substantial evidence for a later Early Bronze Age presence also
comes from Okçular Kale İni and Derebağ 38 C4193 (fig. 6.8 and 6.9). Fig. 6.10: Early Bronze Age
pottery from Okçular Kale İni and Derebağ Köy Mağarası. Produced by Lorraine McEwan. Brought to
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Bronze Age Communities in the Central Turkish Black Sea Region 167 Köy Mağarası. The ceramic
evidence from the three caves, simultaneously displays far-flung cultural connections against a
background of localised technological traditions. Formally, the Kılıçlı material in particular displays
affinities with the EB II-III ceramic traditions of west-central and western Anatolia, Thrace and the
Balkans. More generic Early Bronze Age forms also find parallels in adjacent regions of the central
Turkish Black Sea and inner Anatolia. A preliminary petrographic and chemical analysis points to a
varied geological and chemical composition (section 16.3). At the moment, it is not possible to qualify
this observation further and pinpoint more precisely the provenience of the samples. The results of
this analysis, however, add a further dimension to, and underscore the significance of, this locale and
the activities taking place within it, which may have been of regional or supra-regional importance
(see below). The almost exclusive use of mineral temper connects the later Early Bronze Age pottery
from Cide-Şenpazar with the local Chalcolithic material and earlier traditions further to the west
along the Black Sea coast. A similar preference for mineral temper can be found in the Yassıkaya
assemblage (Efe 2004: 30) and the Zonguldak survey material (Karauğuz and Düring 2009). Early
Bronze Age traditions in neighbouring regions to the east and south, by contrast, display rather
different technological characteristics. Prehistoric pottery in Sinop is described as primarily shell-
tempered (Bauer 2006: 241); and a mix of mineral and vegetal temper characterises the pottery from
sites further inland in Kastamonu (Marro et al. 1996; 1998; Kuzucuoğlu et al. 1997) and Çankırı
(Matthews 2009). On the basis of this data, and evidence from surrounding areas, I will now make an
attempt to sketch a picture of the later Early Bronze Age in Cide-Şenpazar and neighbouring regions.