Metin Batıhan

• Research Assistant at Mardin Artuklu University

The excavations at Başur Höyük have brought to light the socioeconomic reorganization of communities at the frontier of North Mesopotamia after the Late Uruk Period. By focusing on the data obtained from Başur Höyük, the paper presents a brief look at the Upper Tigris Region with the help of the material data. It seems that the Upper Tigris Region...

The works, which have been continued within the scope of the Ilısu Dam and HEPP Projects over the last twenty years, have shown that the Upper Tigris Region had also an advanced organization in terms of metallurgical activities. Especially at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, Arslantepe in the Upper Euphrates Region and Başur Höyük in the Upp...

This paper focuses on the biological evidence for funerary ritual and construction of meaning through burial practice at the site of Başur Höyük, in the Upper Tigris region of southeastern Turkey. While the entire mound is an incredible resource for understanding the changing nature of human settlements in the region, this paper will focus on the s...

Excavations within the scope of the Ilısu Dam and HEPP Project in the Upper Tigris Region indicate that the region did not witness complexities such as city-states, large settlements, and hierarchical settlement systems throughout the Bronze Age, unlike the neighboring regions of Euphrates and Khabur. Instead of a city-centric system and settlement...

This brief report focuses on the early periods (Halaf, Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic and EBA) of Başur Höyük in the Upper Tigris region of southeastern Anatolia.