Aytaç Coşkun

• Professor
• Prof.Dr. at Dicle University

Roma İmparatorluğu'nun doğu sınır garnizonu olan Zerzevan Kalesi'nin bulunduğu bölge, dönemin iki büyük gücü olan Roma ile Parth/Sasaniler arasındaki büyük çatışmalara tanıklık etmiştir. Bu anlaşmazlıklara ciddi şekilde maruz kalmış olan yerlerden biri de Diyarbakır'ın Çınar ilçesinin 13 km güneydoğusundaki Demirölçek Köyü sınırları içinde yer alan...

The Roman period Castrum Zerzevan is on a hill 35 km south of Diyarbakır, Türkiye. Various field evidence (e.g. petrographic similarities, sudden changes of the topographic contours, the morphology of the nearby hills, and traces of the on-site quarry activities) suggests that the topography of the hilltop was artificially modified and used as a qu...

A rock-cut Mithraic sanctuary (2nd-3rd centuries) was excavated in Castrum Zerzevan. With its architectural authenticity and connectedness to the neighbouring structures, it has remained intact since it was purposefully buried probably around 4th century. The authors argue that it stands as the only known Mithraeum on the eastern border of Rome unt...

The paper examines the physical and contextual situation of a series of nine rock hewn pressing installations forming a complex of a winery workshop (ca. 5 decares) which was unearthed during excavations executed at the Roman site of Ambar village. Matching the Upper Mesopotamia and fed by a fair distance permanent water source – the Ambarçay Strea...

Dergide yayımlanan içeriklerdeki tüm görüş ve düşünceler yazarların sorumluluğundadır. Yayımlanan yazılar Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin resmi görüşünü yansıtmaz.

Zerzevan is a recently discovered castle, situated on a rocky hill in the province of Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey. Like many other Medieval defensive artifacts, Zerzevan Castle has also erected to protect the site against the incursions of enemies and to dominate the land. Zerzevan Castle, as a former military base of the Roman Empire, consists...

Zerzevan is a recently discovered castle, situated on a rocky hill in the province of Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey. Like many other Medieval defensive artifacts, Zerzevan Castle has also erected to protect the site against the incursions of enemies and to dominate the land. Zerzevan Castle, as a former military base of the Roman Empire, consists...

Özet Mardin-Midyat Platosu ile Diyarbakır havzası s ınırında, Suriye-Arabistan düzlükleri ile Diyarbakır havzasının sınırında, antik kral yolu üzerinde bulunan Zerzevan Kalesi, lokasyonu itibariyle önemli bir askeri garnizon yerleşmesidir. Yerleşmenin kuruluş yeri coğrafi çevre koşulları ve kuruluş amacı dikkate alınarak akıllıca tespit edilmiştir....

Körtik Tepe is a low mound on the Tigris in Southeastern Turkey, dated to the end of the 11th and the 10th millennia BC. The lithic assemblage from the earliest level at Körtik Tepe is late epi-Palaeolithic in character, and dates to the Younger Dryas. The levels above are dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A [PPNA] period, strata that produced ric...

Recent archaeological discoveries, refinements in genetic analyses and the archaeobotanical data require a reconsideration of the nature of the emergence of sedentary farming communities in Southeastern Turkey. In the rescue excavations prompted by the Batman and Ilısu dam projects several Early Holocene sites were discovered. For the first time, n...

Becoming sedentary is considered a decisive threshold in the progress from foraging to farming (e.g. Dunbar 2013). In this article we present the stratigraphy of one early Holocene dwelling at Körtik Tepe, southeastern Turkey (37°48ʼ51.90ʼʼN, 40°59’02ʼʼE), which not only provides evidence for a strong territorial commitment to the tell but it also...

One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14 C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models...

Recent archaeological discoveries, refinements in genetic analyses and the archaeobotanical data require a reconsideration of the nature of the emergence of sedentary farming communities in Southeastern Turkey. In the rescue excavations prompted by the Batman and Ilısu dam projects several Early Holocene sites were discovered. For the first time, n...

This paper details the use of obsidian sourcing to reconstruct networks of interaction (or ‘communities of practice’) amongst populations of south-eastern Anatolia and the Near East in the context of ‘Neolithisation’ during the late 11th–early 10th millennia BC. EDXRF was used to elementally characterise 120 artefacts of Epi-Palaeolithic – Pre-Pott...

The Epipalaeolithic occupation at Körtik Tepe (radiocarbon dated to 10400-9700 cal BC) supports a repeated and possibly continuous commitment to the site from the Younger Dryas to the early Holocene and suggests a permanent living on the site if not for all, then at least for a substantial part of the community. Despite the pronounced changes...

One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models w...

One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models w...

ABSTRACT. One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many 14C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological ag...