South-Central Anatolia during the Iron Ages:

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Lanaro ◽  
Anna ◽  
Castellano ◽  
Lorenzo ◽  
Highcock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Anatolia ◽  
South Central

Geological Correlation Between Northern Cyprus And Southern Anatolia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yucel Yilmaz
Keyword(s):  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Source Region ◽  
Oceanic Lithosphere ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Late Cenozoic ◽  
Ophiolitic Mélange ◽  
South Central ◽  
Northern Cyprus

The island of Cyprus constitutes a fragment of southern Anatolia separated from the mainland by left-oblique transtension in late Cenozoic time. However, a geological framework of offset features of the south-central Anatolia, for comparison of Cyprus with a source region within and west of the southeastern Anatolian suture zone, has not yet been developed. In this paper, I enumerate, describe, and compare a full suite of potentially correlative spatial and temporal elements exposed in both regions. Northern Cyprus and south-central Anatolia have identical tectonostratigraphic units. At the base of both belts, crop out ophiolitic mélange-accretionary complex generated during the northward subduction of the NeoTethyan Oceanic lithosphere from the Late Cretaceous until the end of middle Eocene. The nappes of the Taurus carbonate platform were thrust above this internally chaotic unit during late Eocene. They began to move as a coherent nappe pile from that time onward. An asymmetrical flysch basin was formed in front of this southward moving nappe pile during the early Miocene. The nappes were then thrust over the flysch basin fill and caused its tight folding. Cyprus separated from Anatolia in the Pleistocene-Holocene when, transtensional oblique faults with dip-slip components caused the development of the Adana and Iskenderun basins and the separation of Cyprus from Anatolia.

A scanning electron microscope study of post-depositional changes in the northeast Niğde ignimbrites, South Central Anatolia, Turkey

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Yurtmen ◽  
G. Rowbotham
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Electron Microscope Study ◽  
Alkali Feldspar ◽  
Vapour Phase ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope Study ◽  
South Central ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Scanning Electron

AbstractThe ignimbrites of the northeast Niğde area, which are subdivided into the Lower, Middle and Upper ignimbrites on the basis of their compositional and stratigraphical characteristics, display textural variations from the base to the top. A large proportion of these ignimbrites have been altered and recrystallized by the processes of compaction, welding and devitrification, and as a result of volatile movement. The alteration and recrystallization processes include four stages: hydration, glassy and spherulitic stages accompanied by vapour-phase crystallisation. In the early phases of devitrification, detailed shard shapes are easily recognisable with the scanning electron microscope, but as alteration proceeds clarity of detail disappears because compaction results in collapse of the structure of the rock. Spherulitic and vapour-phase crystallisation usually involves the growth of alkali feldspar and cristobalite. These later stages are more common in the Upper Ignimbrite than the Middle and Lower ignimbrites.

Razing Gevele and Fortifying Konya: The Beginning of the Ottoman Conquest of the Karamanid Principality in South-Central Anatolia, 1468

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARA NUR YILDIZ
Keyword(s):  
Central Anatolia ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
The West ◽  
South Central ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Military Control ◽  
Northern Highlands

This chapter examines the initial Ottoman campaign of conquest of the Karamanid principality with the assault on Gevele, a mountain fortress lying 11 kilometres to the west of Konya, and the seizure of Konya in 1468. It also looks at the establishment of administrative and military control of the fertile agricultural plains as well as over the rich steppe grasslands of the region's northern highlands by the Ottomans on the eve of their conquest of the Karamanid principality in order to reveal an important factor in the conquest of Karaman: Ottoman political involvement in Karamanid internal affairs before the conquest. By interfering in Karaman succession politics, the Ottomans laid the political groundwork by which they were able to establish an administrative and military presence in the hinterland of the more vulnerable stretches of Karamanid territory prior to the Ottoman military conquest.

The Palaeoecology of South Central Anatolia at the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 119-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold R. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
South Central ◽  
Last Ice Age ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Considerable Body

The origins of agriculture and domestication have long been identified, in theory, with the beginning of permanent settlements; the beginning of the Early Neolithic Period is known, in fact, to be synchronous with the ending of the Last Ice Age. To some scholars, fact and theory have suggested that this synchronism implies a causal relationship between certain assumed climatic changes and the beginnings of food production; for others, this synchronism is not more than a misleading coincidence. It is not the purpose of the writer to discuss the validity of these assumptions except to indicate that opinion seems to be hardening that food production may have had a more complicated and lengthy history than these assumptions suggest. There has grown up over the last 25 years a considerable body of literature expressing the most varied opinion about the causes for the origins of food production, and its variety has not narrowed with the emergence of new evidence. In my opinion, the basis for the solution of this problem will be derived essentially from palaeoecological analyses of selected areas and regions in various parts of the world, and not only in the Near East. This paper is intended to open such a study for the region of south central Anatolia. As might be expected in an ecological study, the evidence derives from a number of disciplines, and, accordingly, several colleagues have contributed to the formulation of the suggested ecological pattern. That pattern itself, however, is the responsibility of the writer.

Ancient mountain routes connecting central Anatolia to the upper Euphrates region

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Tuba Ökse
Keyword(s):  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
North Central ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Third ◽  
South Central ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc

AbstractField 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 can be crossed on horseback where the road ends. A second route connects south-central Anatolia to Sivas by passing through the plains of Gemerek and Şarkışla, and leads to eastern Anatolia by passing through the Kızılırmak valley after Sivas. A third route reaches Altınyayla by passing through the Kızılırmak valley, the Şarkışla plain and reaches the plain of Malatya by travelling through a pass of the Kulmaç mountains running along the Balıklıtohma valley. A fourth route connects Sivas with Malatya via Taşlıdere, Ulaş, Kangal and Alacahan. Fieldwork has shown that these routes have been almost continuously used since the middle of the third millennium BC.

Haplophyllum sahinii (Rutaceae), a new species from Central Anatolia (Turkey)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 297 (3) ◽  
pp. 265 ◽  
Author(s):  
OSMAN TUGAY ◽  
DENİZ ULUKUŞ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Seed Morphology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
South Central ◽  
Pollen Characters ◽  
Species Distribution Map ◽  
Central Turkey ◽  
A New Species

Haplophyllum sahinii (Rutaceae) is described and illustrated as a new species, growing in the rocky fields near the village of Apasaraycık-Apa (Konya), in Central Anatolia. It is compared with the similar H. vulcanicum from Karadağ (Karaman) in south-central Turkey, from the point of view of plant, pollen and seed morphology. Some morphological characters of leaves, bracts, petals, ovary and capsule appendage are diagnostic in distinguishing the two species. Distribution map, and description of seed and pollen characters of the new species, are also given.

The Making of Hittite Imperial Landscapes: Territoriality and Balance of Power in South-Central Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-162
Author(s):  
Alvise Matessi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Network ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
South Central ◽  
Textual Data

AbstractAim of the present work is to offer an understanding of the mechanisms informing the making and reproduction of the Hittite Empire (17th-13th BCE) in its diachronic evolution. The analysis focuses on South-Central Anatolia, an area of intense core-periphery interactions within the scope of the Hittite domain and, therefore, of great informative potential about the manifold trajectories of imperial action. Through the combinatory investigation of archaeological and textual data able to account for long- to short-term variables of social change, I will show that South-Central Anatolia evolved from being a loose agglomerate of city-hinterland nuclei into a provincial system. The region thus acquired a pivotal role in the balance of power thanks to its centrality in the communication network, and it became the stage for eventful political revolutions, as well as a new core for Hittite political dynamics. The picture of Hittite imperialism emerging, thus, is that of a set of multi-causal and multi-directional processes, not predicated on the sole centrifugal hegemonic expansion of the empire.

scholarly journals Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (26) ◽  
pp. 12615-12623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark Spencer Larsen ◽  
Christopher J. Knüsel ◽  
Scott D. Haddow ◽  
Marin A. Pilloud ◽  
Marco Milella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Health Lifestyle ◽  
South Central ◽  
Early Farmers ◽  
Elevated Exposure

The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y ago in Southwest Asia set into motion a series of profound health, lifestyle, social, and economic changes affecting human populations throughout most of the world. However, the social, cultural, behavioral, and other factors surrounding health and lifestyle associated with the foraging-to-farming transition are vague, owing to an incomplete or poorly understood contextual archaeological record of living conditions. Bioarchaeological investigation of the extraordinary record of human remains and their context from Neolithic Çatalhöyük (7100–5950 cal BCE), a massive archaeological site in south-central Anatolia (Turkey), provides important perspectives on population dynamics, health outcomes, behavioral adaptations, interpersonal conflict, and a record of community resilience over the life of this single early farming settlement having the attributes of a protocity. Study of Çatalhöyük human biology reveals increasing costs to members of the settlement, including elevated exposure to disease and labor demands in response to community dependence on and production of domesticated plant carbohydrates, growing population size and density fueled by elevated fertility, and increasing stresses due to heightened workload and greater mobility required for caprine herding and other resource acquisition activities over the nearly 12 centuries of settlement occupation. These changes in life conditions foreshadow developments that would take place worldwide over the millennia following the abandonment of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, including health challenges, adaptive patterns, physical activity, and emerging social behaviors involving interpersonal violence.

scholarly journals Paleomagnetic constraints on the timing and distribution of Cenozoic rotations in Central and Eastern Anatolia

Solid Earth ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derya Gürer ◽  
Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen ◽  
Murat Özkaptan ◽  
Iverna Creton ◽  
Mathijs R. Koymans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Polar Wander ◽  
The North ◽  
Apparent Polar Wander Path ◽  
Kinematic Evolution ◽  
South Central ◽  
Thrust Zone

Abstract. To quantitatively reconstruct the kinematic evolution of Central and Eastern Anatolia within the framework of Neotethyan subduction accommodating Africa–Eurasia convergence, we paleomagnetically assess the timing and amount of vertical axis rotations across the Ulukışla and Sivas regions. We show paleomagnetic results from ∼ 30 localities identifying a coherent rotation of a SE Anatolian rotating block comprised of the southern Kırşehir Block, the Ulukışla Basin, the Central and Eastern Taurides, and the southern part of the Sivas Basin. Using our new and published results, we compute an apparent polar wander path (APWP) for this block since the Late Cretaceous, showing that it experienced a ∼ 30–35° counterclockwise vertical axis rotation since the Oligocene time relative to Eurasia. Sediments in the northern Sivas region show clockwise rotations. We use the rotation patterns together with known fault zones to argue that the counterclockwise-rotating domain of south-central Anatolia was bounded by the Savcılı Thrust Zone and Deliler–Tecer Fault Zone in the north and by the African–Arabian trench in the south, the western boundary of which is poorly constrained and requires future study. Our new paleomagnetic constraints provide a key ingredient for future kinematic restorations of the Anatolian tectonic collage.

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