New Evidence on Central Anatolia during the Second Millennium BCE Excavations at Büklükale
    
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Doç. Dr. Kımıyoshı MATSUMURA Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
Dergi ISSN 1094-2076 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Art Index (Art Research Database, EBSCO)
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 12-2020
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 83 / 4 / 234–247 DOI 10.1086/708506
Makale Linki http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708506
Özet
The circumstances behind the emergence of the Hittite kingdom remain one of the unsolved questions in Hittite history. In particular, the decades between the end of the kārum period and the establishment of Hattusa as the Hittite capital remain largely unknown. The site of Büklükale, a second-millennium BCE city situated on the banks of the Kızılırmak River in central Anatolia, is a promising candidate for filling this gap. Eleven years of research have revealed a large-scale, fortified city that was settled throughout the second millennium BCE. In the excavations on the citadel area, traces of intensive settlement in the Hittite period and a substantial building constructed using cyclopean masonry in the kārum period were found, indicating continued settlement into the Hittite period. Finds such as a Hattian foundation ceremony, a Hurrian glass bottle, and early Luwian hieroglyphs also reveal the multicultural character of …
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