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    A pottery kiln from Tatarlı Höyük (Adana, Turkey) and its implications for Late Bronze Age pottery production in Cilicia and beyond
    (Koc Univ Suna & İnan Kıraç Res Ctr Mediterranean Civilizations-AKMED, 2018) Girginer, K. Serdar; Oyman Girginer, Özlem; N/A; Arıkan, Gonca Dardeniz; PhD Student; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 313982
    This article documents a Late Bronze Age II (1450-1200 B.C.) pottery kiln unearthed at Tatarli Hoyuk, Adana (Turkey). This pyrotechnical installation, with its associated ceramic assemblage and production remains, offers an overview of the pottery kiln technologies in Cilicia during the end of the Late Bronze Age. The typological features of the Tatarli Hoyuk pottery kiln presents encouraging similarities to northern Syrian and Mesopotamian updraft pottery kiln technologies rather than those of central Anatolia, even though the political and social influence of the Hittite Empire has been documented by ceramic and seal collections of the settlement.
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    Agropastoralism in middle bronze through early iron age Naxcivan: zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical data from Qizqala
    (Elsevier, 2020) Proctor, Lucas; Gopnik, Hilary; Bakhshaliyev, Veli; N/A; Lau, Hannah Kwai-Yung; Researcher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A; N/A
    Excavations at the site of Qizqala in the Sarur Rayon of Azerbaijan's Autonomous Republic of Naxcivan have yielded evidence of a fortified settlement occupied from the Middle Bronze through the Early Iron Ages (2500-800 BCE), as well as a rich mortuary landscape of monumental kurgan burials dating to the Middle Bronze Age. This study describes the combined faunal and macrobotanical evidence for agropastoral production from the settlement at Qizqala and from animal offerings incorporated into nearby contemporaneous mortuary contexts. Such data provide a unique opportunity to elucidate the underlying subsistence system supporting the inhabitants at Qizqala, and to compare this system with the choices ancient people made when interring their dead in the nearby kurgans. While this dataset is modest, our goal is to integrate both plant and animal data stemming from different types of social practices in order to draw a more holistic view of agropastoral production and ritual practice during this period.
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    At empires' edge: project Paphlagonia - regional survey in north-central Turkey
    (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011) N/A; Blaylock, Stuart; Reseacher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A; N/A
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    Composing communities: chalcolithic through Iron age survey ceramics in the Marmara Lake basin, western Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2015) Çilingiroğlu, Çiler; Department of Archeology and History of Art; N/A; Roosevelt, Christina Marie Luke; Roosevelt, Christopher Havemeyer; Cobb, Peter J.; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Researcher; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 235112; 235115; N/A
    Diachronic survey in the Marmara Lake basin of western Turkey confirms long-term settlement activity from the 5th millennium B. C. to the present. Here we present the results from a study of ceramics and settlement distribution pertaining to the Chalcolithic through the Iron Age periods (ca. 5th/4th-1st millennium B. C.). Our dataset confirms the value of a multi-pronged approach when establishing ceramic typologies from survey datasets, incorporating distribution in the landscape with macroscopic, microscopic (petrographic), and chemical (Instrumental Neutron Activation) analyses. Our results offer valuable insights into continuity as well as change of ceramic recipes in western Anatolia during the rise of urbanism in the Middle to Late Bronze Age followed by the establishment of an imperial realm in the Iron Age. From a methodological perspective, our results illustrate the value of macroscopic and chemical approaches, including principal component, distribution, density, and discriminant analyses that can be refined further by petrography, for the interpretation of surface survey ceramics.
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    Corridors and colonies: comparing fourth-third millennia BC interactions in Southeast Anatolia and the Levant
    (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014) Greenberg, Raphael; N/A; Palumbi, Giulio; Researcher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A; N/A
    This chapter concerns the interactions of several east Mediterranean regions with their southern and northern neighbors during the formative period of literate civilization in the Near East, between the mid-fourth and mid-third millennia BC. These regions such as the Anatolian Euphrates valley, the northwest Levant, and the southern Levant, reside at the edges of the core regions of political and cultural innovation during this period of time. During the late fourth millennium BC, all of them came into early contact with one of the core cultures, Uruk Mesopotamia or Egypt, and all were affected, during the early third millennium BC, by the spread of the Kura-Araks cultural tradition, generally thought to have originated in the southern Caucasus and eastern Anatolia during the second half of the fourth millennium BC. Representing the southwestern extremity of the Kura-Araks cultural province, the southern Levant exhibits a chronologically truncated and culturally distant expression of the features described in more northerly regions.
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    Cultic symbolism at the city gates: two metal foundation pegs from Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Turkey)
    (Koc Univ Suna & Inan Kirac Res Ctr Mediterranean Civilizations-Akmed, 2016) N/A; Arıkan, Gonca Dardeniz; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 313982
    Öz: Bu çalışma, C. L. Woolley tarafından Aççana Höyük, eski Alalah kentinde yapılan kazılarda bulunmuş iki adet metalden yapılma yapı-adak çivisini konu etmektedir. Orta Tunç Çağı’na tarihlenen Seviye VII ve Geç Tunç Çağı’na tarihlenen Seviye V’te ortaya çıkarılan şehir kapılarına yerleştirilmiş olan eserlerin buluntu yerleri, arkeolojik olarak genellikle mabet temellerinde bulunan benzerlerine nazaran farklıdır. Şehir kapıları ile bağlantılı bulunan eserlerin bu konumları, kült ve ritüel açısından da sembolik bir anlam taşımaktadır. Bu makalede, yapı-adak çivileri geleneğinin çıkışından başlayarak bu eserlerin nitelikleri incelenmiş, Alalah buluntuları ile malzeme ve ikonografi açısından benzerlik gösteren eserler tartışılmıştır. Yazılı kaynaklardan yola çıkarak, şehir kapılarının törensel ve dini önemleri özetlenmiş ve yerleşke özelinde yapı adak çivileri ve şehir kapıları arasındaki sembolik ilişkiye dair yeni bir olgu, öneri olarak sunulmuştur.
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    Cultural politics of the Turkish Republic within the context of “Atatürk on the Excavation Site of Ahlatlıbel” painting
    (Atatürk Üniversitesi, 2022) N/A; Akder, Feyza; Researcher; Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM) / Vehbi Koç Ankara Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (VEKAM); N/A; 381895
    Şeref Akdik’s painting Atatürk on the Excavation Site of Ahlatlıbel (1933) presents the Turkish History Survey Association’s group portrait as the representation of national histograhy. Reşit Galip, Nevzat Tandoğan, Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, Afet İnan, Yusuf Akçura, and Hamit Zübeyr Koşay who are portraied in the painting are public figures who contribututed to the Association. The artifacts retrieved from the excavation were a part of the Second Turkish History Congress Exhibition (1937), and emphasized the painting’s content. The painting is a rare example where archeology represents the national identity. During the 1930s, anthropology and archeology were supported by the government and used for constructing a new national historiography. Both were developing simultaneously, producing data for the national history. The painting is a group portrait of the scientists and bureaucrats working on these fields to construct the national history. The painting has been referred to only by its date in literature; however, there is no in-depth research on it. A feature of the painting is its documentary style. This paper is based on the excavations’ preliminary studies, the memoirs of the scientists, articles of the period, drawings, and photographs of the excavation site. By this means, Akdik’s documentary style and composition are discussed. / Şeref Akdik’in Atatürk Ahlatlıbel’de Kazıda (1933) tablosu, Türk Tarih Tedkik Cemiyeti’nin grup portresini, millî tarih yazımı çalışmaları ile birleştirerek sunar. Resimde yer alan Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Reşit Galip, Nevzat Tandoğan, Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, Afet İnan, Yusuf Akçura ve Hamit Zübeyr Koşay cemiyetin etkinlikleri ile toplumda tanınan kişilerdir. Resimdeki kazı buluntuları İkinci Türk Tarih Kongresi Sergisi’nde (1937) yer almış ve resmin anlamını güçlendirmişlerdir. Arkeolojinin resim sanatında ülkenin kimliğini görselleştirmek üzere kullanılması önemlidir ancak nadirdir. 1930’lu yıllarda devlet tarafından desteklenen antropoloji ve arkeoloji, yeni kurulan Cumhuriyet’in ulusal tarihinin yazılması için kullanılmaktadır. Arkeoloji de antropoloji ile eş zamanlı gelişip ulusal tarihin temellendirileceği veriler üretmektedir. Tablo 1930’lu yıllarda arkeoloji ve antropoloji alanında çalışmalar yapan bilim insanları ve bürokratların yer aldığı bir grup portresi olarak bir ulusun tarih yazım serüvenini görselleştirir. Resme Şeref Akdik’le ilgili yapılan araştırmalarda sadece yapım tarihi verilerek değinildiği ancak üzerine inceleme yapılmadığı gözlemlenmiştir. Resmin önemli özelliklerinden biri de Şeref Akdik’in belgesel tarzda yaptığı çalışmalardan biri olmasıdır. Araştırma sırasında kazının ön çalışmaları, kazıya katılan kişilerin anıları ya da kazıya ilişkin yazdıkları makaleler ve kazı buluntuları çizimleri ile kompozisyon karşılaştırılmış; bu şekilde Akdik’in belgesel nitelikli resim anlayışı ve tablonun kompozisyonu tartışılmıştır.
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    Evaluation of Willis Polygon variations on aortic surgery patients with unilateral antegrade cerebral perfusion
    (Türk Beyin Damar Hastalıkları Derneği, 2021) Er, Zafer Cengiz; Özatik, Mehmet Ali; N/A; Tosya, Alper İbrahim; Doctor; N/A; Koç University Hospital; N/A
    Introduction: To determine the effects of wiilis polygon variations on long-term survival in patients with aortic aneurysm and/or aortic dissection operated with the Antegrade Selective Cerebral Perfusion (ASSP) technique Methods: Twenty patients with ascending, arcus aneurysm and dissection who underwent antegrade selective cerebral perfusion via the right brachial artery were prospectively studied. Willis polygon variations were detected by cerebral multi-section computed tomographic angiography device. Cooling degrees, cross-clamping, low flow, total perfusion times, postoperative intensive care unit stay, neurologic examination, and hospitalization times were evaluated. Results: of the patients, 70% (14) were male and 30% (6) were female, with a mean age of 54.20±10.58 (38-70). Five patients had Stanford type 1 aortic dissection and fifteen patients had ascending and/or aortic aortic aneurysms. The mean cardiopulmonary bypass times of the patients were 146±32.9 (82-200) minutes, the cross-clamp times were 101±31.6 (47-165) minutes, and the selective cerebral perfusion times were 26±7.8 (16-45) minutes. Only one patient had paresthesia and loss of function in the right hand, and almost complete clinical improvement was observed on the second postoperative day. Discussion and Conclusion: With this study, we defined the willis polygon variations in the population. As we have determined; If there are three communicating arteries, the variations are not significant. Unless the patients are in the high-risk group, it is not necessary to evaluate the willis polygon variations before the procedure in patients who will undergo surgery with antegrade cerebral perfusion.
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    Exhibiting interaction displaying the arts of the ancient middle east in their broader context
    (2019) Rakıc, Yelena; N/A; Aruz, Joan; Researcher; Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) / Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED); N/A; N/A
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    Lead isotope analysis and chemical characterization of metallic residues of an early bronze age crucible from goltepe: using icp-ms
    (Tuba-Turkish Acad Sciences, 2009) Lehner, Joseph W.; Burton, James; N/A; Yener, Kutlu Aslıhan; Faculty Member; N/A; N/A
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