The Kahramanmara Valley Survey: A Crossroads Along the Syro-Anatolian Frontier [Hardcover]

The volume presents a study of local landscape histories in the Kahramanmaraş valley--a previously understudied, but pivotal, crossroads along the Syro-Anatolian frontier. The Holocene vegetation history is presented in relation to climatic changes and human impact through the pollen analytical results of a deep core obtained from a former Sağlık (Gavur) lakebed. Extensive surface surveys carried out in the region between 1993 and 2000 form the basis of the settlement pattern studies beginning with the first permanent settlement of the valley in the Neolithic and ending with the Islamic era. The results of an intensive full coverage and transect surveys around Domuztepe are found in Chapter 10. The analysis of a long historical record, diverse physical environment, and a significant number of archaeological sites are used to outline the myriad ways the ancient residents of this region between Syria and Anatolia made it their home for over seven thousand years.A final report on surveys in the Kahramanmara? region of southeastern Turkey between 1993 and 2000 that several thousand years ago was removed from the centres of political power, pulled between Antioch to the south and the areas along the Euphrates to the east. It includes a record of settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Islamic eras.Chapter 1: The Kahramanmara&#351
Valley-A Crossroads at the Foot of the Mountains Elizabeth Carter Chapter 2 Part I: Holocene Environmental Change in the Kahramanmara&#351
Valley: The Palynological Evidence of the Saglik Ovasi Hendrik Woldring, Harm Jan Streurman, Johannes van der Plicht, Elsa Kleine, and Ceran Sekeryapan Part II: Climate Change in the Kahramanmara&#351
Valley during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene Ceran Sekeryapan, Mehmet Yesiltas, and Hendrik Woldring Chapter 3: The Neolithic: The First Settlers in the Kahramanmara&#351
Valley Cigdem Atakuman Chapter 4: The Local Late Chalcolithic: Tl£#