T. Ökse

• Full Professor
• Head of Department at Kocaeli University

Riverine and land transport play a vital role in the foundation and development of settlements. East Plain Cilicia, namely Yukarı Çukurova, is a convenient place for founding settlements, and it plays a strategic role in the exchange of culture and goods, being the junction of major land routes and having a major waterway, the River Pyramos/Ceyhan....

In Early and Middle Bronze Ages extramural cemeteries in Anatolia, burials are occasionally oriented towards the rising sun in various seasons. The orientations of Early Bronze Age burials cluster towards the sunrise in autumn and winter; however, this differs in Middle Bronze Age cemeteries. Burials in Çavlum are mainly oriented towards the rising...

The book deals with the excavations carried out in Havuz Mevkii, an Ubais-Period site on the Tigris River, Turkey.

The settlement history of the city of Diyarbakir dates back to the 4th Millennium BC as attested on the mound located in the acropolis of the fortified city. At several contemporary settlements of Northern Mesopotamia, both the local hand made vessels and wheel made Uruk vessels as well as flaring rim bowls are observed; however, on Amida Hoyuk, on...

The excavations carried out within the salvage project of the Ilisu Dam to be constructed on the Upper Tigris valley brought out three New Assyrian sites with cremation burials. In the provincial capital at Ziyarettepe cremation pits with mass burials cremated together with rich grave goods are recovered. Contrary to this urban centre, cremated ind...

The distribution of archaeomagnetic data in eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East shows a remarkable gap in Turkey. This study presents the first archaeomagnetic results from five different mounds in southeast Turkey, the northern part of Mesopotamia. The rock magnetic experiments indicate that in the majority of the samples the dominant magn...

This article presents data on the Early Bronze Age (EBA) of southeastern Anatolia. The EBA chronology of southeastern Anatolia is parallel to northern Syrian chronologies. The traditional EBA I-III chronology of Anatolia is based on the Tarsus sequence and the EBA I-IV chronology of northwestern Syria on the Amuq and Tell Mardikh sequences. The dis...

The recent excavations in the Upper Tigris region have revealed monumental Middle Bronze Age buildings dated to the 18th-17th centuries BC. These large buildings are constructed on higher hills suitable for controlling the agricultural lands in the vicinity. The archaeobotanical data suggest the existence of a dry-farming economy comparable with th...

Ilisu Barajiyapim calismalari nedeniyle bolgede yurutulen yuzey arastirmalari, Mardin yukseltisi ile Dogu Toros daglari ve Dicle nehrinin olusturdugu kucuk bir dagarasi ovada yapilmis ve Canak Comleksiz Neolitik Doneme ait (Okse vd. 2006) 65yerlesim yeri ortaya cikarilmistir. MO 3-1. binyila tarihlenen yuzey malzemesi 15 ayri yerlesmeden toplanmist...

The field surveys carried out at the construction area of the Ilisu Dam, located on a small plain formed by the Tigris River between the Mardin Massive and the Eastern Taurus zone, revealed 65 ancient places used since the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (Ökse vd 2006). Surface material dating to the 3rd-1st millennia BC is obtained from 15 sites. The...

Field surveys carried out within the upper Kızılırmak region have shown that the natural route-ways passing through the area have connected central Anatolia to eastern Anatolia throughout the ages. The route from north-central Anatolia reaches the Kızılırmak river by passing through the plains of Çekerek, Yıldızeli and Yıldız. The Kızılırmak river...

STRATİGRAFİ Salat Tepe'de üst yerleşim katmanlarının açığa çıkartılması için tepe üzerindeki düzlükte çalışılmış, vadiye bakan güney yamacında, aşınma ve toprak kaymaları meydana gelen kesimdeki yapı katları 2.5 m. eninde bir yamaç açmasında araştırılmıştır. Tepe Üzeri Açmaları Üst kesimdeki yapılaşmanın açığa çıkartılması amacıyla tepe düzlüğünün...

1992-2000 surveys carried out in the Sivas region revealed 154 sites with sherds dating to the 3rd mill. B.C. These sites are mostly small, and the dimensions of the Early Bronze Age levels of the larger multi-period sites cannot be estimated, since no excavations have been undertaken there. Thus, no settlement hierarchy is visible. More sites are...

Eski Önasya'da besin maddelerinin uzak mesafeye taşıması için pişmiş topraktan üretilmiş testi, anfora, şişe, çömlek, küp, matara gibi kaplar kullanılmıştır. Akdeniz kıyılarında bulunan çeşitli dönemlere ait batıklarda ele geçen anforalar ile ticari amaçlı olarak şarap taşındığı bilinmektedir(1). Kuzey Suıiye'de ve Orta Fırat havzasında üretilen ve...

Son buzul çağından itibaren insanlar, çevre koşullarının el verdiği ölçüde yerleşmeye uygun bölgelerde yaşamlarını sürdürmüşlerdir. İnsanların bu çağlardan kalan izlerinden arkeolojik kazılar ve yüzey araştırmaları yoluyla elde edilen bulgularının değerlendirilmesi, eski insanın dönem dönem gelişen ve farklılaşan yaşam tarzı hakkında bilgi edinilme...

Seit der letzten Eiszeit gründeten die Menschen ihre Siedlungen in den Gebieten, in denen günstige klimatische und ökologische Bedingungen herrschten. Die archäologische Auswertung der menschlichen Hinterlassenschaften aus diesen Epochen läßt die Entwicklungen und Änderungen ihres Lebensweisen erkennen. Die Oberflächenfunde, hauptsächlich Keramik,...

Sivas bölgesinde yapõlan yüzey araştõrmalarõ Hitit dönemi öncesine ait farklõ yerleşim şe- malarõ ortaya çõkartmõştõr. Kalkolitik Çağa ait küçük plato yerleşimlerinden oluşan yapõ, büyük olasõlõkla avcõlõk ve hayvancõlõkla geçinen yarõ göçebe yaşam tarzõnõ yansõtmaktadõr. Erken Tunç Çağõnda bu merkezlerin hemen hemen hepsi terk edilmiş, yeni kurula...

Gre Virike is on an Euphrates-Terrace between Birecik and Karkemish. At the beginning of the third Mllennium BC. was buiit a large mud-brick pavement with a pool, a basalt canal, sacrificial pits with grains and ash, and a stairway for an underground spring, in the middle of the milennium lime stone chamber tomb complexes and towards the and of the...