Başak Boz

Trakya University · department of Archaeology

In the 2022 field season at Çatalhöyük, a multiple burial was discovered in a new excavation area known as the "North Terrace", located on the East Mound. The burial, found beneath the northeast platform of a partially excavated building, dates back to 6480-6641 cal BCE.This multiple burial, houses seven individuals, ranging from infants to old adu...

1960’larda başlayan ikinci dalga feminist hareketin tüm sosyal bilimlere yayılan etkisi 1980’lerde arkeolojiye de ulaşmış ve arkeolojideki geleneksel toplumsal cinsiyet algısı eleştirilmeye başlanmıştır. Bu eleştirinin hedefinde biyolojik determinist ve evrenselci bir yaklaşımla kadın-erkek rollerinin tüm toplumlarda aynı olduğunu varsayan anlayış...

Geçmiş topluluklarda toplumsal cinsiyet kimlikleri ve rollerinin belirlenmesi sorunlu bir alandır. Bu zorluğun altında yatan temel sebep, toplumsal cinsiyet kimliklerinin her bireyin yaşam döngüsü sürecinde kendine has dinamikleri ile oluşması ve değişebilmesi gerçeğidir. Osteobiyografi yaklaşımı, bu farkındalıkla osteolojik, arkeolojik ve tarihsel...

Osteomyelitis is a non-specific inflammation of bone and bone marrow. It has been stated that acute osteomyelitis caused high mortality rates, especially among children in past societies. Defining the presence and prevalence of this nonspecific infectious disease can provide information about the history of the disease and treatment methods even th...

Eleven human skeletons were found in a 2m deep circular pit in an open area dating to 5389–5300 cal BC at Uğurlu/Gökçeada. The pit can be considered as a part of the pit tradition frequently seen in Thracian and Balkan prehistory. Its unique contents, however, are discussed in this paper in the scope of possible motivations. An ‘accompanied dead’ h...

The site of Uğurlu Höyük on the island of Gökçeada, Turkey, has yielded rich archaeological finds and presented the earliest evidence for the settlement of the eastern Aegean region in the Neolithic. Recent excavations revealed a burial pit containing the skeletons of 11 individuals as well as an additional pit with the partial remains of one indiv...

The discovery of a burial pit at Ug˘urlu on the Aegean island of Gökçeada, in which bodies were deposited one on top of another, raises questions about whether this apparently careless discarding of the dead was local burial custom or a ceremonial ritual.

Burned human remains of nine individuals were unearthed within a burned space (Space 11) in the Late Bronze Age layers of Beycesultan. With the aim of determining the conditions under which these people were burned, a series of experimental burning of green bones and dry bones were carried out in varying conditions. In addition, newly butchered lam...

Beycesultan was an important city located in Western Anatolia during the 2nd millennium BC. The complex political situation in the area caused conflicts between the Arzawan political entity and the Hitites in central Anatolia. Several episodes of destruction by fire at the settlement are thought to be results of these conflicts and the human remain...

The bioarchaeological record of human remains viewed in the context of ecology, subsistence, and living circumstances provides a fundamental source for documenting and interpreting the impact of plant and animal domestication in the late Pleistocene and early to middle Holocene. For Western Asia, Çatalhöyük (7100–5950 cal BC) in central Anatolia, p...

In the Neolithic of Anatolia, Turkey, intramural burial practices were common. Dating from 6000 to 7400 B.C.E., the large east mound of Çatalhöyük was a place both for the living and for the dead who were buried mainly under the floors of the houses. Single primary interments were the norm, and secondary depositions, although less common, offer ins...

The main burial custom at Catalhoyuk was primary-single interment; however, usage of the same places within the houses resulted in many individuals being buried in the same pit at different times, causing commingling of bones. The degree of the commingling depends on the amount of decay of the body and the number of times the graves were reopened....

This paper presents a detailed examination of three sequential houses [44, 56, 65] at Çatalhöyük. These three structures are thought to have been relatively short-lived, given few re-plastering events, suggesting a surviving generation between re-building episodes. Issues concerning domestic habits are explored through repeated processes, visible i...

Taphonomic processes have the potential to affect microscopic wear on teeth and to modify the wear patterns so as to confound dietary reconstructions based on dental microwear which was formed during the lifetime of an animal. This study describes a series of experiments which were conducted to simulate various taphonomic agents and to record their...