Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia) during the 4^th and early 3^rd millennium BCE

We explore the Late Chalcolithic 3–4 to Early Bronze Age I pottery from Arslantepe by combining compositional, technological and morpho-typological analyses. The paper investigates what extent economic political changes affected organisation of production in terms natural resources, human labour, practices. wheel-finished vessels show a strong continuity raw materials, while labour changed with an increased task division under control central elites LC3-4 LC5. By EBA Ib, manufacture shows development more autonomous, restricted skilled community craftspeople. handmade burnished conversely exhibits stable supply strategies manifested drastic related non-sedentary subsistence economy groups producing this pottery. can imagine practice independent hierarchies aimed at functional aesthetic results.