Bachhuber/Citadel and Cemetery, 6. The Agrarian Foundation of Citadel Elites

Chapter 6 examines how local farming productivity of citadels was administered and then converted into social capital, either as desirable things like textiles to display or exchange, or desirable things to consume during socially integrative events. The latter provided opportunities for the inhabitants of citadels to invest farming surplus into events that celebrated their hospitality, or their munificence. It is in such a context of ‘commensal politics’ that a specific repertoire of wheel-made pottery achieved its symbolic salience across Early Bronze Age Anatolia.