Regional Studies in Archaeology Symposium Proceedings - Settlement Archaeology Series 4

Settlement Archaeology Series 4
229 pp, b/w figures, pb, articles Turkish and English.

Research on regional studies in archaeology has accelerated in the past 20 years and changed the archaeological discourse in a fundamental way. This recent perspective influenced the archaeological perception favorably in terms of evaluating the settlements with a holistic view, assessment of central places with their rural territories that cannot be separated from each other. The idea of organizing a symposium on this subject comes from our belief in the importance of removing ourselves of the understanding resulting from handling the settlement in Anatolian archeology for a long period of time, stripped from its dynamics and our belief in the importance of presenting new researches. Our department, Settlement Archaeology Program in METU was founded in 2000 mainly for filling the gap in Anatolian archaeology with the viewpoint of interdisciplinary studies and regional studies in archaeology. Studies at regional scale are recently integrated to archaeological projects in our country, yet produced important results. The main goal of this symposium is to provide a discussion ground for young scholars who carry out archaeological studies at regional scale and share various perspectives and results yielded by regional studies in Anatolia. 

Contents

• Foreword
• Bintliff, John / Regional Survey in the Mediterranean and Near East: A Brief History and Review of Current Approaches
• Vandeput, Lutgarde / Opening Remarks by Lutgarde Vandeput
• Dincer, Berkay / The Paleolithic of Kocasu Basin (NW Anatolia)
• Celik, Bahattin / New Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlements in Southeast Anatolia
• Aksoy, Belgin / On the Demographical Dynamics and Land Use in the Early Bronze Age: A Case Study from Bursa/NW Anatolia
• Massa, Michele / Destructions, Abandonments, Social Reorganisation and Climatic Change in West and Central Anatolia at the end of the Third Millennium BC.
• Koparal, Elif / Land Use and Agricultural Potential in Klazomenian Khora
• Morel, Ahmet / The Rural Settlement of Ozkoy in Rough Cilicia: Agricultural Organization and Regional Settlement Patterns
• Baranski, Marek Z. / Late Neolithic Architecture of Catalhoyuk. The Technical Aspects of the Mound and Building Construction
• Cumalioglu, Asli – Gulseren KAN Sahin – Sami Pataci / Contribution of Excavations at Hadrianoupolis to the Regional Studies of Paphlagonia
• Kocabiyik, Cosku / Chiliocomum, the Plain of a Thousand Villages: Investigation of the Rural Settlements in NW of Amasya During the Hellenistic and Roman Periods by Using Gis