Archive for Mart 15th, 2009

Mar

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East necropol of the Seleukeia Pieria

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The most enduring extant buildings left from ancient cities are those of necropol sides. Therefore, it is important to esteem and analyse monumental graves standing on the east necropol across-the-board for attaining comprehensive information concerning the city.
The first chapter consists of introduction, aim, content and method of the studying.
The second chapter is intensified on the [...]

Mar

15

Stone vessels in Anatolia from the beginning to the end of 2000 b.c.

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Stone pots which has carried almost symbol and since produced aceramic neolithic age as many culture come front us, is ameng indesponsible patterns of Anatolia cultur history. Stone pots that coincide with in many regions made special to Anatolia, quality, varied stone species. Stone pots in pointaf view shope workmanship and embolismant that shows evident [...]

Mar

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Art of decoration on Urartian War Tools in

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Object while writing this thesis is analyzing the decoration on the Urartian war tools. That includes figures used, what techniques were used while applying those figures, etc. in order to that properly first, we had to established the locations that items recovered. Then we look to the function of the tools, types of items, manufacturing [...]

Mar

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Ideological and conceptual approaches for tfe evaluation of prehistoric figurines

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The topic of the present thesis is to examine the concepts developed subject to
influxes of ideological conceptions developed for the evaluation of the figurines in
the period originated from the prehistorical time and surviving up to our
contemporary time and remaining comments and approaches have been left out of
those. The course how ideologies influenced the comments of [...]

Mar

15

The contribution of the settlement logic studies in the contemporary villages to the interpretation of the archaological settlements

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We have no opportunity to recover archaeological settlements with all the details intact.
But the need of interpretation of prehistoric settlements requires, alternative models on
settlement formational processes.
The aim of the research is to develop a detailed perception of the formation processes of
a settlement by examining internal dynamics on spatial and temporal scales and the
relationship between settlement [...]

Mar

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The development of painted pottery untill Halaf period in Southeast Turkey

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Under the scope of Mezraa Teleilat excavations, this Masters thesis investigates the
emergence of the fi rst painted pottery assemblages in Southeast Anatolia and the
impacts of such traditions made on the Halaf tradition. According to this goal, the
gradual changes in chronological aspects of the earliest painted pottery traditions in
Near East are investigated. Firstly, painted pottery groups [...]

Mar

15

The early bronze age pottery of Tilmen höyük, excavated in 1959-1972]

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This material has been classified in ware groups and shapes, each sherd has been
studied in order to obtain information of production features and composition of clay.
Ten ware groups have been classified and named by letters from “A” to “I”. The
literature of other settlements, beginning from near environment, have been searched
enabling an analogy in order to [...]

Mar

15

Biological methods in archaeology: aDNA

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In the recent years, there has been a significant contribution of genetic analyses
in archeology. Archaeogenetics, which is widely used now, defines the studies of
human, animal and plant DNAs to understand the past of humans. Extraction of
ancient DNA (aDNA), from the dead organisms and replicating it in the
laboratories gave us a chance to tell more about [...]

Mar

15

Obsidian technology in Central Anatolia: The model of Aşıklı Höyük, techno-cultural origins and development]

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Detailed analysis of the chipped stones plays a significant role on the definition of
prehistoric cultures. Obsidian, abundant as a raw material in Central Anatolia, was
used largely in production of chipped stone tools.
The aim of this study is to define the technological and typological evolution of
obsidian industries in Central Anatolia during the Pre-pottery Neolithic, with a
special [...]

Mar

15

Rock-cut tombs within Hellenistic and Roman periods in The Highlands of Phrygia

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The Phrygians, especially in the highlands of Phrygia, carved splendid
monuments and chamber tombs. The tradition of carving rock-cut tombs in the
area continued through Hellenistic, Roman Imperial and Late Antiquity periods.
Especially in the Roman Imperial Period, in the highlands of Phrygia, many rockcut
tombs were carved and early engraved ones were renewed. In this research, the
aim is [...]