Kınık Höyük in South Cappadocia

Lorenzo d’Alfonso; Lorenzo Castellano

doi:10.1515/aofo-2018-0008

Kınık Höyük in South Cappadocia

Altorientalische Forschungen ◽

10.1515/aofo-2018-0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 84-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lorenzo d’Alfonso ◽

Lorenzo Castellano

Keyword(s):

Taurus Mountains ◽

Anatolian Plateau ◽

Cultural Developments

AbstractThis note complements the preliminary comparative stratigraphy of excavated sites of Cilicia published in AoF 44/2 with the new stratigraphic data obtained at the ongoing excavation of Niğde Kınık Höyük, in South Cappadocia. South Cappadocia lies directly north of Cilicia beyond the Taurus mountains, and from Prehistory it has controlled the access from Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau. The region knew periods of minor, and more intense, participation in the cultural developments experienced in Cilicia, and the note is intended to provide basic stratigraphic information to start the study of this relation in a more precise and comprehensive way. The note only adds the information for the site of Kınık Höyük, but it is a strong invitation to other colleagues working in Cappadocia to build a similar comparative stratigraphy.

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Between Phrygia and Cilicia: the Porsuk area at the beginning of the Iron Age

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.2307/3643062 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 61-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anne-Sophie Crespin

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Iron Age ◽

Point Of View ◽

Early Iron Age ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

Taurus Mountains ◽

Anatolian Plateau

Porsuk is strategically situated in the northern foothills of the Taurus mountains (see map, fig 1), controlling one of the most important passes between Cilicia and the Anatolian plateau. It seems that this area, which was in the sphere of Hittite culture during the Late Bronze Age, turns towards the southern regions of Cilicia during Porsuk period IV. We shall firstly re-examine the evidence for the Early Iron Age at Porsuk in the light of recent discoveries from a number of other sites. We will then examine evidence that might demonstrate relations between Porsuk IV and Cilicia.During subsequent centuries the situation seems to revert to that pertaining in the LBA: relations with the plateau tend to become more intense. From this point of view, we shall have a look at the Phrygian problem. Does this zone become a Phrygian protectorate with the rise of the Gordion state? Or are the exchanges between them only commercial or diplomatic? We shall try to give a preliminary shape to a possible answer by investigating the so-called ‘Phrygian’ evidence.

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The Northern Routes Across Anatolia

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.2307/3642660 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 151-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

David Winfield

Keyword(s):

Great Lakes ◽

West Coast ◽

The Other ◽

Asia Minor ◽

The West ◽

Taurus Mountains ◽

Anatolian Plateau ◽

Communications Network

Turkey has always served as a bridgehead between the continents of Europe and Asia and there are four main ways of crossing it (Fig. 1). The southerly route ran up one or other of the west coast valleys onto the Anatolian plateau, and crossed by the great lakes of Eǧridir and Beyşehir to Konya and thence down through the Taurus mountains by the Cilician Gates into the plain of Adana. From here the routes southwards into Syria and Egypt or eastwards into Mesopotamia and Persia were clear of further geographical obstacles. This was the great route of the Hellenistic and Roman periods when the trade and communications network of Asia Minor were channelled westwards through the ports either of Ephesus or one of the other west coast cities.

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Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) marine bottom oxygenation and palaeoclimate at the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau

Italian Journal of Geosciences ◽

10.3301/ijg.2018.19 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 137 (3) ◽

pp. 425-464 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nazik Öğretmen ◽

Virgilio Frezza ◽

Natália Hudáčková ◽

Elsa Gliozzi ◽

Paola Cipollari ◽

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Keyword(s):

Early Pleistocene ◽

Anatolian Plateau ◽

Southern Margin

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Evolution of Orogenic Plateaus at Subduction Zones - Sinking and raising the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau

10.31237/osf.io/hf759 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David Fernández-Blanco

Keyword(s):

Tectonic Evolution ◽

Subduction Zones ◽

Inversion Tectonics ◽

High Discharge ◽

Anatolian Plateau ◽

Surface Uplift ◽

Southern Margin ◽

Wide Range ◽

Forearc Basins ◽

Orogenic Plateaus

Orogenic plateaus have raised abundant attention amongst geoscientists during the last decades, offering unique opportunities to better understand the relationships between tectonics and climate, and their expression on the Earth’s surface.Orogenic plateau margins are key areas for understanding the mechanisms behind plateau (de)formation. Plateau margins are transitional areas between domains with contrasting relief and characteristics; the roughly flat elevated plateau interior, often with internally drained endorheic basins, and the external steep areas, deeply incised by high-discharge rivers. This thesis uses a wide range of structural and tectonic approaches to investigate the evolution of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP), studying an area between the plateau interior and the Cyprus arc. Several findings are presented here that constrain the evolution, timing and possible causes behind the development of this area, and thus that of the CAP. After peneplanation of the regional orogeny, abroad regional subsidence took place in Miocene times in the absence of major extensional faults, which led to the formation of a large basin in the northeast Mediterranean. Late Tortonian and younger contractional structures developed in the interior of the plateau, in its margin and offshore, and forced the inversion tectonics that fragmented the early Miocene basin into the different present-day domains. The tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the CAP can be explained based on the initiation of subduction in south Cyprus and subsequent thermo-mechanical behavior of this subduction zone and the evolving rheology of the Anatolian plate. The Cyprus slab retreat and posterior pull drove subsidence first by relatively minor stretching of the crust and then by its flexure. The growth by accretion and thickening of the upper plate, and that of the associated forearc basins system, caused by accreting sediments, led to rheological changes at the base of the crust that allowed thermal weakening, viscous deformation, driving subsequent surface uplift and raising the modern Taurus Mountains. This mechanism could be responsible for the uplifted plateau-like areas seen in other accretionary margins. ISBN: 978-90-9028673-0

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6600–6000 cal BC Abrupt Climate Change and Neolithic Dispersal from West Asia

10.1093/oso/9780199329199.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bernhard Weninger ◽

Lee Clare

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Abrupt Climate Change ◽

Western Anatolia ◽

Southeast Europe ◽

The Balkans ◽

Farming Communities ◽

Anatolian Plateau ◽

Decadal Scale ◽

Early Farming ◽

New Hypothesis

Recent advances in palaeoclimatological and meteorological research, combined with new radiocarbon data from western Anatolia and southeast Europe, lead us to formulate a new hypothesis for the temporal and spatial dispersal of Neolithic lifeways from their core areas of genesis. The new hypothesis, which we term the Abrupt Climate Change (ACC) Neolithization Model, incorporates a number of insights from modern vulnerability theory. We focus here on the Late Neolithic (Anatolian terminology), which is followed in the Balkans by the Early Neolithic (European terminology). From high-resolution 14C-case studies, we infer an initial (very rapid) west-directed movement of early farming communities out of the Central Anatolian Plateau towards the Turkish Aegean littoral. This move is exactly in phase (decadal scale) with the onset of ACC conditions (~6600 cal BC). Upon reaching the Aegean coastline, Neolithic dispersal comes to a halt. It is not until some 500 years later—that is, at the close of cumulative ACC and 8.2 ka cal BP Hudson Bay cold conditions—that there occurs a second abrupt movement of farming communities into Southeast Europe, as far as the Pannonian Basin. The spread of early farming from Anatolia into eastern Central Europe is best explained as Neolithic communities’ mitigation of biophysical and social vulnerability to natural (climate-induced) hazards.

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Does Addiction Have A Subject?: Desire in Contemporary U.S. Culture

Journal of Medical Humanities ◽

10.1007/s10912-021-09682-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jaeyoon Park

Keyword(s):

Behavior Therapy ◽

Cognitive Behavior Therapy ◽

The Self ◽

Cognitive Behavior ◽

Dominant Form ◽

The Subject ◽

Tracking Movement ◽

Cultural Developments

AbstractThis paper traces the emergence of a new figure of the desiring subject in contemporary addiction science and in three other recent cultural developments: the rise of cognitive-behavior therapy, the self-tracking movement, and the dissemination of ratings. In each, the subject’s desire becomes newly figured as a response to objects rather than a manifestation of the soul, measured numerically rather than expressed in language and rendered impersonal rather than individualizing. Together, these developments suggest a shift in the dominant form of the desiring subject in contemporary U.S. culture, one that breaks with the subject-form that Foucault theorized five decades ago.

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Social Perception and Urbanscape Identity of Flagship Cultural Developments in Szczecin (in the Re-Urbanization Context)

Land ◽

10.3390/land10040398 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 398

Author(s):

Eliza Sochacka ◽

Magdalena Rzeszotarska-Pałka

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Social Perception ◽

Local Identity ◽

Functional Complexity ◽

Questionnaire Surveys ◽

Urban Strategy ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Cultural Developments

A growing number of urban interventions, such as culture-led regeneration strategies, has emerged alongside growing awareness of the concept of re-urbanization. These interventions evolve to create a holistic urban vision, with aims to promote social cohesion and strengthen local identity as opposed to traditional goals of measuring the economic impact of new cultural developments. Szczecin’s, Poland urban strategy is focused on the expansion of culture—a condition for improving the quality of life and increasing the city’s attractiveness. This article assesses the potential for re-urbanization of Szczecin’s flagship cultural developments. Questionnaire surveys and qualitative research methods were used to assess the characteristics that distinguish cultural projects in the formal, location-related, functional, and symbolic layers, as well as examining their social perception. The results show that the strength of these indicators of urbanscape identity affects how the cultural developments are assessed by the society. Semiotic coherence and functional complexity of the structures have a significant impact on the sense of identification, while their monumentality and exposure contribute to the assessment of the impact on their surroundings. A development with a firm identity, embedded in the city’s tradition not only preserves the cultural heritage of the city but also makes inhabitants feel association with the new project.

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Two New Byzantine Churches in Cilicia

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.2307/3642669 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 23-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert W. Edwardś

Keyword(s):

Field Survey ◽

Late Antique ◽

The South ◽

Taurus Mountains ◽

Left Behind ◽

General Field

The Byzantine churches of Cilicia have attracted considerable attention during the last 80 years. Often scholars have focused on the urban centres of Cilicia Pedias, the coastal settlements of Cilicia Trachea, and the monasteries near the important roads. However, the Taurus mountains, those lofty barriers which surround the fertile plain, have been ignored by most modern investigators. In the late antique world Greek communities found protection and sustenance in the isolated Highlands. While not as wealthy or numerous as their more urbane cousins to the south, these Cilician Greeks also have left behind monuments of their worship.In the summer of 1979 I was fortunate to locate and survey in the Highlands two Byzantine churches which hitherto had not been published. The study of these buildings was part of a more general field survey of classical and medieval sites. Since no excavations were undertaken all descriptions and surveys are based on surface remains. The purpose of this paper is to describe the location, masonry and plan of each church and to offer rudimentary conclusions based on a comparison with the known Cilician churches.

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