EARLY BRONZE AGE DAGGERS IN CENTRAL ... - Bilkent University

attachment places for handles on both sides. There were rods inserted into these to
function as bucket handles. Those attachment points were soldered and they are
suggested to be cast as well as the body (Temizer, 1954: 326). The technology applied
in the vessel makes it clear that the dagger of a simple type found at Kayapinar does
not mean that the site was bereft of developed metallurgical products, or highly
developed types of daggers. Unfortunately, this is one of the EBA sites which were
targets of extensive looting activities. Therefore, we do not know if other weapons,
which might have had more sophisticated morphology, were recovered from the site
by illicit excavations. It is also possible that daggers or other weapons were not
commonly used as grave offerings in Kayapınar.
6.3 “Universal” Typologies
Some of the daggers in the EBA age seem to have a “universal” morphology.
The spatial and temporal distribution of these daggers makes it almost impossible to
track their origin. Two of the daggers types in Central Anatolia, a dagger from
Horoztepe (Cat.No:18) and another one from The Ankara Collection (Cat. No: 40), are
good examples to demonstrate this difficulty. Similar daggers are found in İkiztepe
(Fig.25), Karaz (Fig.26), Karkamış (Fig.27), Hassek Höyük (Fig.28), Ur (Fig.29) and
in the cultural realm of Ezero (Fig.30).
There are clear metallurgical connections between İkiztepe and Central
Anatolian in almost all the dagger typologies. As it was mentioned earlier, the Halys
River Valley was a convenient trade route between the Central Anatolian and the
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