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A map depicting the details of a site, usually made by recording all observable surface features.

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Aratta

Sümer destanında adı geçen bir yerleşim adı. MÖ 3. binyılda Mezopotamya ile uzun mesafeli ticaret ilişkilerinde bulunmuştur.

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Aratta

A site name mentioned in a Sumerian epic that was supposedly involved in long-distance trade with Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BC.

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Aratta

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Lespugue

Series of cave sites in Save Gorge, Haute-Garonne of the French Pyrenees with occupation from the Aurignacian to the Magdalenian. A famous ivory Venus was associated with Gravettian material.

Lespugue

Rhodes

Hellen Dili’nde Dodecanesa olarak anılan On İki Adalar’ın en doğusunda yer alan ve bu adaların tarih boyunca yönetim merkezi olmuş olan Rodos, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne 19 km. uzaklıkta bulunan ve Akdeniz’in dokuzuncu büyük adası olarak, bulunduğu coğrafi konumu ile bütün tarihinin özdeşleştiği, örn...

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Rhodes

A large Aegean Greek island off the southwest coast of Anatolia, settled by Dorian Greeks who established three city-states, lalysos, Lindos and Kameiros. They produced local pottery, which was traded widely in the Greek world. In 408/7 BC they were united into one state, with its capital at Rhod...

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Rhodes

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Sperlonga

1957 yılında Roma’nın güney sahilinde Sperlonga’da bir mağaranın ağzında dört mitolojik heykel grubu ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Mağara imparator Tiberius’un kullandığı villanın bir parçasıdır. Gruplar ya onun tarafından ya da villanın daha önceki sahibi tarafından satın alınmış olmalıdır. Bu heykeller...

Sperlonga

The villa of Sperlonga, built on a beach along the Tyrrhenian sea, was probably built between 30 and 20 BCE. It consisted of three parts: the villa itself, consisting of rooms surrounded a peristyle, a terrace near the beach, and a cave - the real monument. This consisted of two parts: a square b...

Sperlonga

Shanidar

Kuzey Irak'ta 745 metre yükseklikte bir mağara. Zawi Chemi Shanidar isimli küçük bir köy bölgesi içerisinde yer alır. Mağara, Zarzian dönemi içerisine tarihlendirilen tarım kalıntılarını içerir, kalıntılar M.Ö. 10 bin tarihlerine kadar tarihlendirilebilmektedir. İlk Paleolitik seviyelerin altında...

Shanidar

A cave in northern Iraq at an altitude of 745 metres. A small village site outside, Zawi Chemi Shanidar, has produced some evidence for early farming at the time of the Zarzian, whose levels at the summit of the cave are about 10,000 be. Beneath early Upper Palaeolithic levels are Mousterian laye...

Shanidar

Agora

In ancient Greek cities, an open space, serving as a commercial, political, religious, and social center. The word, first found in Homer, was applied by the Greeks of the 5th century Be in regard to this feature of their daily life. It was often a square or rectangle, surrounded by public and/or ...

Agora

Yunan kentlerinde, çeşitli etkinlikler için yurttaşların toplantı yeri olarak kullandıkları açık alan. İlk olarak Homeros'un yapıtlarında yer alan agora sözcüğü, toplantı yapılan bir mekanı tanımladığı kadar insanların toplanmasını da çağrıştırır. M.Ö. 5. yüzyılda Yunanlar bu sözcüğü, yaşamlarını...

Agora

An open space in a Greek town, serving as commercial, political and social centre, like the Roman Forum. The area is often characterized by elaborate architecture, as at classical Ephesus and at Athens, where the agora has been studied in recent excavations.

Agora

Jemdet Nasr

Type-site of the transitional phase between the late Uruk period and the Early Dynastic I period in southern Iraq. The Jemdet Nasr period (c.3100–2900 BC) was initially defined by a distinctive style of painted pottery (buffcoloured jars painted with red and black designs), first excavated in str...

Jemdet Nasr

Carchemish

City in northern Syria, 125 km northeast of Aleppo, located at a crucial crossing-point on the Euphrates. Occupied from the Neolithic period until the Roman empire, it prospered particularly during the Bronze Age, both as a major HITTITE town during the Old Kingdom and Empire (c.1680–1205) and as...

Carchemish

Jerusalem

Situated in the ancient Judaean region of ISRAEL, Jerusalem dates back to the Early Bronze Age (c.3000 BC), when it was probably founded by an AMORITE tribe, the Jebusites, who called it the ‘Foundation of Salem’ (Salem being an Amorite deity). It was captured by the ISRAELITES under David in c.1...

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Jerusalem

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Ekklesiasterion

Versammlungsplatz einer griech. Volksversammlung. Unter den Orten, an denen das Wort e. gebraucht wird, finden sich Olbia und Delos zur Zeit der athenischen Kleruchie im 2. Jh.v.Chr. In Athen war der reguläre Versammlungsort die Pnyx im Südwesten der Stadt, wo drei Baustufen aus dem 5. und 4. Jh....

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Ekklesiasterion

Ekklesia isimli Yunan meclisinin toplantılarını yaptığı, basit bir bouleuterion olarak nitelendirilebilecek yapı.

Ekklesiasterion

Ekklesiasterion (ἐκκλησιαστήριον; ekklēsiastḗrion). Meeting-place of a Greek public assembly. Among the cities where the word ekklesiasterion is used are Olbia and Delos during the period of the Athenian klerouchoi in the 2nd cent. BC. In Athens, the regular meeting-place was the Pnyx in the sout...

Ekklesiasterion

Çatalhüyük

Çatalhöyük, Konya'nın Çumra İlçesi sınırlarında olup, ilçenin 10 km. doğusunda yer almaktadır. Höyük, farklı yükseklikte iki tepe düzü olan bir tepe şeklindedir. Bu iki yükseltisi nedeniyle çatal sıfatını almıştır. Çatalhöyük 1958 yılında J. Mellaart tarafından keşfedilmiş, 1961-1963 ve 1965 yıll...

Çatalhüyük

One of the largest known Neolithic sites in the Near East, located in the Konya plain of southern Anatolia, about 11 km from modern Çumra. A section of the 32-acre site was excavated by James Mellaart in the 1960s (1967; 1975), revealing 14 building phases radiocarbondated to the period 6250–5400...

Çatalhüyük

One of the world's earliest towns, a huge Neolithic site in south central Turkey's Konya plain. At least 14 levels have been excavated so far with radiocarbon dates from 6500 BC to 5400 BC, without undisturbed deposits being reached. Cereals were cultivated, cattle and sheep were bred, and huntin...

Çatalhüyük

Waršama Palace

Warşama Sarayı. Kayseri, Kültepe'de bulunan bir arkeolojik sit içindeki antik saray. Sarayın tarihi, ahşap kalıntılara dayandırılarak, dendrokronolojik testlerle MÖ. 19. yüzyıla tarihlendirilmiştir. Adlarını bildiğimiz beş Kaniş Kralı, sitadelde 7. katta inşa edilmiş büyük sarayda oturmuşlardır. ...

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Waršama Palace

Waršama palace at Kültepe, an archaeological site located in the Kayseri Province in Turkey which consists of a tell, Kültepe, and a town located below where an Assyrian settlement was discovered. Based on the dendrochronological analysis of wood remains from buildings of the Waršama Palace, the ...

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Altamira

One of the most important painted Palaeolithic caves (as is Lascaux, France) and one of the earliest discovered (1879). The site is in the Cantabrian Mountains of northeast Spain and the 280-meter long cave is famous for its polychrome animals, which include deer, bison, and wild boar painted in ...

Altamira

Altamira mağarası İspanya'nın kuzey kesiminde paleolitik çağlardan kalma mağaradır. Santander yöresinde, Santillana del Mar yakınında yer alan Altamira mağarası, 1879'da bulunmuştur. Tarihöncesi'nden kalma duvar resimleriyle ünlüdür. Girişe yakın tavanda yer alan canlı renkli büyük hayvan figürle...

Altamira

Principal example of Upper Palaeolithic (Magdelanian/Solutrean) cave art in Cantabrian Spain, near the town of Santillana del Mar, decorated from perhaps 16,000 BP onwards. Of the animals depicted, bison and red deer are the most numerous with about 50 representations of each. (The faunal remains...

Altamira

Adena

Adena bölgesi ya da Adena kültürü, Kuzey Amerika arkeolojisinde, Orta Ohio Nehri vadisindeki, özellikle Güney Ohio ve Kuzey Kentucky'deki bir grup alanı tanımlamak için kullanılan terimdir. Bu alandaki tarihlendirme MÖ. 500′e kadar uzanmaktadır. Öne çıkan bölgeler, toprak höyüklerin bulunduğu ala...

Adena

Term used in North American archaeology to describe a group of sites in the middle Ohio River valley, particularly in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, most of which date to the halfmillennium following 500 BC. The best-known sites are earthen mounds, many of which have a distinctive conical s...

Adena

Knossos Palace

Homeros’un söylemiyle: “Açıklarda, şarap renkli denizde, bir ülke var ki, zengin olduğu kadar da güzel, dalgalar içinde yapayalnız. Burası Girit’tir işte.” Girit’in kuzey sahilinde bulunan Knossos Sarayı, Minoslular tarafından inşa edilen 4 muhteşem saraydan en büyüğüdür. Yaklaşık olarak MÖ 1.7...

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Knossos Palace

The Palace of Knossos is located just south of modern-day Heraklion near the north coast of Crete. Built by a civilization that we call the Minoans, it covers about 150,000 square feet (14,000 square meters), the size of more than two football fields, and was surrounded by a town in antiquity. Th...

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Acropolis

The "high point" or citadel of an ancient Greek city, like the Acropolis in Athens. It is generally a raised area above the rest of the city where the most important sacred and secular buildings are brought together. The buildings on the Athenian Acropolis were important for trade and worship.

Acropolis

Akropolis Antik Yunan kentlerinde, kentlerin yanıbaşındaki yüksekliklere verilen addır. Yunanca akropolis "yukarıda bulunan şehir" anlamına gelir. Klasik dönem Yunanistan'ında her önemli yerleşme yerinin bir akropolisi vardı.Tapınaklar, hazinelerin saklandığı yapılar ve çeşitli kurumlar burada ye...