Adnan Baysal

Ankara University · Department of Archaeology

Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as ahistorical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case studies, and firmly rooted in material evidence, this book rearticulates concepts of time and h...

Networks and Social organisation

Materyal Kültür ve İnsan" başlığını taşıyan, elinizde tuttuğunuz kitap, günlük yaşamın içinde görmediğiniz, farkına varmadığınız birçok nesneyi görmenizi, hatta daha farklı şekilde görmenizi sağlayacaktır. Bulunduğunuz dünyayı farklı bir gözle görmeniz için rehber olacaktır. Bunu yaparken size nasıl bakmanızı öğretmek yerine demokratik bir ilişki s...

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies. Lithic studies are mostly conducted on a site by site basis, and specia...

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A very short and brief report on Canhasan excavation season.

This short paper will address the ground stones tool industry as an invisible actor in the Neolithization. Although the lithic studies, especially knapped stones, were widely examined and exhaustively studied in contrast to ground stone assemblages which were way out of the centre of archaeological research focus until recent decades. The ground st...

Abstract: In Turkey, archaeological research has developed more with the scientific understandingof 'doing excavation' than a concept of 'the adequacy of digging'. Of course, archaeological research shouldinvolve excavation, but scientific understanding cannot be limited to this. Excavation is one of the tech-niques used by the science of archaeolo...

İnsan zihni ve nasıl işlediği konusu her zaman merak ve araştırma konusudur. Bu konuda psikoloji, felsefe ve nöroloji gibi bilim alanla- rında araştırmalar yapılmış ve hala yapılmaktadır. Bu araştırmala- rın önemli bir kısmı ise insanın yaratıcılığı üzerine odaklanmıştır. Yaratıcılık konusunda yapılan araştırmaların son otuz yıl içerisinde arkeoloj...

Product and production issues are debated widely in archaeological literature. This paper shows that a product can also be a production place using grinding stones as an example of multi-functional tools. These large lithic tools are portable and employed for food and tool production. They are made by using lithic tool making technologies such as r...

This paper approaches the subject of collapse. As a processual fact, collapse's plane or context is within time. When viewed from this angle, collapse is not only evaluated from the material, historical, ecological, climatic, sociological, and demographic dimensions, but approached from a different perspective considering the temporal dimension. Th...

This paper contextualise the role and importance of ground stone tools in lithic studies and explore the famous Turkish idiom in relation to ground stones.

Neolitik dönemde yaşayan insanın kültürel gelişim ve etkileşiminin bir network ağı içinde ele alınarak söz konusu sürecin zaman boyutundada irdelendiği bir sunumdur.

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Eastern Anatolian petroglyphs

An assemblage of marble bracelets, at various stages of manufacture, recovered during surface survey of the site of Kanlıtaş in Turkey, indicates that there was specialized production activity at the site during the Chalcolithic period. In this article we present the assemblage, evidence about material procurement, technology and manufacturing proc...

The polycentric nature of Neolithic developments in the Middle East has prompted several discussions related to the processes driving regional diversification in the emergence of agglomerate societies. Archaeologists have recognized how diverse social, environmental, and material landscapes shaped various communities, resulting in a heterogenous Ne...

This paper discusses the only substantive evidence for the Epipalaeolithic of central Anatolia. This evidence allows revised understandings of phenomena often proposed as characteristic of the Epipalaeolithic of South-west Asia including the appearance of sedentism, a putative Broad Spectrum Revolution, intensive plant exploitation and the emergenc...

This paper is a presentation of three sources of artifact-quality chert in Central Anatolia. A previous dearth of research focused on locating and characterizing such raw material sources has incorrectly colored our view of prehistoric economic practices. To remedy this situation, we have conducted a survey of various locales within Central Anatoli...

The importance of Eastern Anatolian Archaeology has been firmly established over the years with the conducted research projects. Especially, those started in 19th century and have continued until today. Since the 1950's Turkish archaeologists widely embedded their Urartian orientated research programmes within the area. These research programmes, h...

Book description: Volume 5 deals with aspects of the material culture excavated in the 1995-99 period. In particular it discusses the changing materiality of life at the site over its 1100 years of occupation. It includes a discussion of ceramics and other fired clay material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone and basketry. As well as looking...

This symposium was held between 8 and 10 September, 2004, in Van Cultural Center in the City of Van. This presentation aims to show how the archeological sites coul protect while they are used as a cultural heritage in terms of Urart Channels in Edremit, Van.

2 The Neolithic period witnessed a vast expansion in technologies and the use of diverse materials. This expansion was particularly striking with respect to the use of rocks for making artifacts. On the whole, Palaeolithic populations made use of a wider array of materials for making chipped stone tools than is sometimes remembered. Depending on lo...