Anadolu, geçmişten günümüze birçok medeniyete ve kültüre ev sahipliği yapmıştır. Özellikle antik çağlarda bunu görebilmek çok daha mümkündür. Yunanlılar ve öncesi, Romalılar, Bizanslılar, Selçuklular, Osmanlılar ve günümüz medeniyetleri bu bölgede yer almıştır. Özellikle MÖ 133’…
“Demir Çağı’nda Anadolu’da Ay Tanrısı” başlıklı çalışmamızda öncelikle Ay Tanrısı’nın kökeni, Sümer, Eski Assur, Eski Babil ve Hitit dönemindeki yerini değerlendirmeye çalıştık. İkinci bölümde Demir Çağı’nda Ay Tanrısı’nın önemi, hangi bölge ve toplumlarda etkisini hissettirdiği…
This dissertation focuses on the construction of the Trabzon-Bayezid road in northeastern Anatolia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On a micro-level, this work focuses on the social history of the road and narrates the stories of various actors (such as …
The archaeological site of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh), located in south-central Anatolia, in the present-day Republic of Turkey, was the capital city of a native Anatolian kingdom during the early Middle Bronze Age (20th - late 18th c. BC). Uninterrupted archaeological excavations…
This dissertation examines the concept of neoliberal communitarianism and its varieties in order to explain the economic success stories of the cities known as Anatolian Tigers. It is portrayed that major driver of the transformation in the Anatolian cities was the rapid industr…
This dissertation investigates the variety of clothing options available to the ancient Western Anatolians from the seventh through the fourth centuries BCE as evidenced by archaeological remains, visual representations, and rare written sources. The body of the dissertation inc…
Darius I can be viewed as an innovator rather than a reformer. He formed the Achaemenid empire and placed his indelible stamp upon it. Darius' vision was one of a specifically Persian, specifically Achaemenid empire willingly supported by the peoples of the empire. For this visi…
This research uses quantitative and qualitative data collected from ten Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic sites in Central and Southwest Anatolia (Asikli Hoyuk, Catalhoyuk, Canhasan III, Canhasan I, Guvercinkayasi, Hoyucek, Badamagaci, Erbaba, Hacilar and Kuru9ay) to investigate …
This dissertation studies specific features of the Ottoman administration of justice in Anatolia during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In particular, it examines the functions and responsibilities of Islamic courts within the framework of the Ottoman provin…
This study seeks to document the use of architectural terracottas--baked clay roof tiles and decorated frieze plaques--at the Phrygian settlement of Gordion in west-central Anatolia, where more than three thousand tiles are preserved from three epochs of excavation since 1900. P…
This dissertation examines the interaction between the central Ottoman administration and locally powerful provincial political forces, and the outcome of this interaction on the manufacturers in the textile and copper sector in the urban center of Tokat in central northeastern …
The primary aim of this dissertation is to investigate the economic and social conditions effecting spatial congruity and temporal continuity of settlement sites in the 6th millennium cal BC landscape of Kahramanmaraş-southeastern Turkey. The dissertation also explores an altern…
The theme of nationalism has long provided the dominant framework for understanding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and has become an increasingly popular motif in Russian and Soviet historiography. This dissertation sharply challenges that framework. It returns late Ottoman …
The study of linguistic contacts in ancient societies can be described as an inverse sociolinguistic problem. When one is dealing with modern languages, it is frequently easier to gather information about the ecology of their development than to elicit the relevant linguistic da…
The studies conducted so far shows that the Ubaid material culture spread to each comer of Mesopotamia and beyond by the second half of the fifth millennium BC. More importantly, the societies of these times were in the process of progressive social, economic, and political chan…
My thesis "Contact, Interaction, Control - The Archaeology of Inter-Regional Relations in Late Bronze Age Anatolia" examines from an archaeological perspective a range of regional behaviours and their diachronic transformations that are indicative of a series of forms of interac…
This dissertation is concerned with investigating the construction of the identities of a place, that is, the way we spatially, socially , and mentally create, understand and give meaning to a place of habitations. Significantly, the dissertation focuses on Kula, a small Anatoli…
The intraspecific phylogeography and population genetics of three cave-dwelling bat species (namely Miniopterus schreibersii, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and Myotis capaccinii) in southeastern Europe and Anatolia were investigated using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. The m…
This dissertation is an examination of the role played by an agency of the Ottoman Government, during the middle of the nineteenth century, in the resettlement of the largest influx of foreign Muslims experienced by the Empire during the seven centuries of its existence. Beginni…
This dissertation explores how gender and sexuality were regulated through the legal and social scrutiny of illicit sex in mid-eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia. It examines the legal encounters between the central government, local kadi courts and Ottoman subjects in order to…