Metallurgists of the Central Black Sea Region. A New Perspectives on the Question of the Indo-European Original Homeland

114 pp, color figures, English and Turkish bilingual.

In recent years Eastern and Western researchers involved in the attempt to ascertain the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans, a long disputed issue, have put forward the daim, on the basis of independent studies especially taking into account linguistic data, that the Indo-Europeans' original homeland was Anatolia. The claims made by linguists —that the Indo-Europeans or their oldest and well-known ancestors, the Hittites, were natives of Anatolia, i.e. they did not migrate to Anadolia at the beginning of the second Millenium BC, but lived in Anatolia from the beginning, at least from the Neolithic onwards, and were in Anatolia before the people of Hatti— have been supported by archaeological data, which has been gained from the excavations at Ikiztepe near Samsun and by the recent researches at Samsun, Sinop, Amasya and Tokat Museums and surveys in the Central Black Sea Region, ali conducted by Dr. Önder Bilgi, a professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology and Protohistory, on behalf of the İstanbul University and the Turkish Ministry of Culture. The Research Fund of the İstanbul University, the Turkish History Association and the Turkish Automobile Touring Club were also the other financial supporters the project of this scıentific research.