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ADALYA the Annual of the Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations 21 2018 ISSN 1301-2746 ADALYA The Annual of the Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations (OFFPRINT) AThe AnnualD of theA Koç UniversityLY Suna A& İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED) Adalya, a peer reviewed publication, is indexed in the A&HCI (Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and CC/A&H (Current Contents / Arts & Humanities) Adalya is indexed in the Social Sciences and Humanities Database of TÜBİTAK/ULAKBİM TR index. Mode of publication Worldwide periodical Publisher certificate number 18318 ISSN 1301-2746 Publisher management Koç University Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sarıyer / İstanbul Publisher Umran Savaş İnan, President, on behalf of Koç University Editor-in-chief Oğuz Tekin Editor Tarkan Kahya Advisory Board (Members serve for a period of five years) Prof. Dr. Engin Akyürek, Koç University (2018-2022) Prof. Dr. Mustafa Adak, Akdeniz University (2018-2022) Prof. Dr. Nicholas D. Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2018-2022) Prof. Dr. Thomas Corsten, Universität Wien (2014-2018) Prof. Dr. Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University / Collège de France (2018-2022) Prof. Dr. Mehmet Özdoğan, Emeritus, Istanbul University (2016-2020) Prof. Dr. C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania (2018-2022) Prof. Dr. Christof Schuler, DAI München (2017-2021) Prof. Dr. R. R. R. Smith, University of Oxford (2016-2020) English copyediting Mark Wilson © Koç University AKMED, 2018 Production Zero Production Ltd. 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No. 22 Kaleiçi 07100 Antalya - TURKEY Tel: +90 (242) 243 42 74 • Fax: +90 (242) 243 80 13 https://akmed.ku.edu.tr E-mail address [email protected] Contents Gizem Kartal The Neolithic Cave Settlements of the Antalya Region in Southwestern Anatolia: A Comparative Perspective in Terms of Chipped Stone Assemblages ........................................................................................... 1 Derya Yalçıklı Two Neolithic Ritual Centers in East Mysia (NW Turkey): The Baltalıin and İnkaya Caves ............................. 19 Nurcan Kayacan th Oval Points and Cattle-Hunting Practices in Central Anatolia during the 8 Millennium BC ..................... 45 Yalçın Kamış Acemhöyük Buluntuları Işığında Erken Tunç Çağı’nda Orta Anadolu’nun Güneyinde Çark Yapımı Seramiğin Ortaya Çıkışı ...................................................................................................................................................................... 63 Murat Akar – Demet Kara Into the Hinterland: The Middle Bronze Age Building at Toprakhisar Höyük, Altınözü (Hatay, Turkey) ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 85 Gonca Dardeniz – K. Serdar Girginer – Özlem Oyman-Girginer A Pottery Kiln from Tatarlı Höyük (Adana, Turkey) and its Implications for Late Bronze Age Pottery Production in Cilicia and Beyond ......................................................................................................................................................... 117 S. Gökhan Tiryaki The Sanctuary with the Relief of the “Twelve Gods” in the Elmalı Highlands: On the Iconography of “Leto, her children, and the Nymphs” in Ancient Southwest Anatolia ............................................................................. 135 Elif Özer – Murat Taşkıran The Sillyon Main City Gate .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 151 Şükrü Özüdoğru – Düzgün Tarkan Kibyra Geç Antikçağ Hamamı ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 175 Mustafa Adak Die Melas-Brücke bei Kotenna und die Familie des Stanamoas ................................................................................................. 211 Urs Peschlow Die Gabriel-Platte in Antalya. Rekonstruktion und ursprünglicher Kontext ................................................................ 229 Ünal Demirer – Nilgün Elam Lead Seals of the Kibyra Excavations .................................................................................................................................................................... 245 Aytaç Dönmez Xanthos West Agora II: Alteration and Transformation in the Byzantine Period ...................................................... 277 IV Contents Hüseyin Metin – Salih Soslu The Altıkapılı Cave Church at Pisidia .................................................................................................................................................................. 315 Merih Erol th Becoming Protestant: Greek Orthodox Responses to Conversion in 19 -Century Ottoman Anatolia .. 335 Evren Dayar 1853 Antalya İsyanı ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 363 Funda Solmaz Şakar – Neriman Şahin Güçhan Building System Characterization of Traditional Architecture in Cappadocia, Turkey ..................................... 379 ADALYA 21, 2018 The Neolithic Cave Settlements of the Antalya Region in Southwestern Anatolia: A Comparative Perspective in Terms of Chipped Stone Assemblages Gizem KARTAL* Abstract Öz Located in southwest Anatolia, Antalya is a Antalya, Güneybatı Anadolu’da bulunan ve large city on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, bünyesinde çok sayıda arkeolojik yerleşim which contains numerous archaeological sites yeri barındıran Türkiye’nin bir Akdeniz kıyısı within its borders. Throughout human history, şehridir. İnsanlığın ilk evrelerinden gelişmiş Antalya has hosted many cultures from the uygarlıklara kadar oldukça geniş bir tarih aralı- earliest phases to the modern civilizations. ğında pek çok medeniyete ev sahipliği yapmış- Today, Antalya continues to be a popular tır. Günümüzde de Antalya hem tarihi dokusu center for many domestic and foreign tourists hem deniz turizmi ile hala yerli-yabancı birçok with both its historical and resort appeal. The insanın uğrak yeri olmaya devam etmektedir. earliest findings regarding the prehistory of Antalya’nın tarih öncesine ilişkin en eski bul- Antalya have been recovered in the caves gular şehrin kuzey-kuzeybatısında yer alan ve situated to the north-northwest of the city, Suluin, Öküzini ve Karain yerleşimlerini içeren referred also as “the Western Taurus Caves”. “Batı Toros Mağaraları” olarak da isimlendirilen These include the caves at Suluin, Öküzini, mağaralardan ele geçmiştir. Söz konusu bu ma- and Karain. Current evidence suggests that ğaraların bazılarında Pleistosen sonrası / Erken human occupation continued in some of these Holosen Dönem’de de yerleşimin devam ettiği caves during the period after the Pleistocene ve insanların bu mağaraları hala yaşam alanı and in the Early Holocene. Within the scope of olarak kullandığı anlaşılmıştır. Bu çalışma kap- this study, the similarities or the differences in samında Neolitik Çağ’da iskân görmüş mağara- terms of technology and typology of the lithic lardan ele geçen yotmataş buluntular üzerinde industries will be discussed by reviewing the yapılan analiz çalışmalarından yola çıkılarak analytical studies performed on the chipped kullanılan teknolojik-tipolojik benzerlik ya da stone assemblages recovered from the caves farklılıklar belirlenecektir. inhabited during the Neolithic Period. Keywords: Antalya, Neolithic period, cave Anahtar Kelimeler: Antalya, Neolitik Çağ, sett lement, chipped stone technology, chipped mağara yerleşimi, yontmataş teknolojisi, yont- stone typology, microlithic tools, macrolithic mataş tipolojisi, mikrolitik aletler, makrolitik tools aletler * Dr. Öğretim Üyesi, Gizem Kartal, Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Arkeoloji Bölümü, Tarih Öncesi Arkeolojisi Anabilim Dalı, Sıhhiye – Ankara. E-mail: [email protected] I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Dr. D. Baird for the invitation to the University of Liverpool and the opportunity to give a presentation and review the literature there. I would also like to thank especially Dr. C. Middleton Baird who shared her knowledge with me during my visit like Prof. Dr. Baird. More than that, she has been a friend. I am grateful to Prof. Dr. M. Kartal and Dr. G. Mustafaoğlu for their efforts and support. Without them I would not have been able to grasp the opportunity. I would also like to thank Dr. C. Kabukçu, who has 2 Gizem Kartal Introduction In Antalya, there are five cave settlements dated to the Pottery Neolithic Period. All of the well-defined Neolithic chipped stone industries of the region have been recovered together with Neolithic pottery. The findings detected at Antalya indicate that human communities had chosen caves as living spaces during the Neolithic Age and even in the subsequent periods as well. The chipped stone finds recovered from these caves can shed
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