Sediment records of lake level changes in the Simav Graben (western Turkey

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Palaeoenvironmental records in and around PPN Aşıklı site in the Melendiz Valley (Kızılkaya, Aksaray)

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Palaeoenvironmental records in and around PPN Aşıklı site in the Melendiz Valley (Kızılkaya, Aksaray)

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Geomorphological and Palaeoenvironmental Setting of Asikli Hoyük

Archaeology, PalaeoenvironmentInternational audienceGeomorphological research at PPN Asikli Hüyük (ascertained 8.5-7.3 ka cal BP occupation time) started in the early 1990's in the framework of the archaeological excavation and associated projects run by Prof. Dr. U. Esin (1996, 1999a). A first geomorphological field work was done by Prof. Dr. O. Erol, whose unpublished report we were unable to access .In 1995, Prof. Esin asked us to undertake geomorphological research in the Melendiz valley, where the Asikli Höyük settlement was founded. Prof. Esin's main question for us was whether the Melendiz river ever flew at the time of the first settlement, along the eastern sicle of the mound (contrary to today, as it flows west of the mound the edges of which floods currently erodes the site. In 1995 and 1996 , field survey and three cores in the valley (Kuzucuoglu, 2013) did not allow us to answer this question. However, the survey did allow us to define a suite of terraces within the valley, to determine the position of the roof of the bedrock below the terraces in the western part of the mound at only -5 m depth, and to develop hypotheses regarding the possible occurrence of a buried river palaeobed east of the mound (Kuzucuoglu, 2013). In 2010, additional questions were proposed to us by the new director of the excavation, Prof. M. Özbasaran. The first question concerned the "paved road" in Level 3 that descends toward the river bed, and its possible role in establishing some kind of continuity with the Late PPN Musular site established on the opposite flank of the valley. Second question concerned the reconstruction of palaeogeographies at time of the mound PPN occupation. Was there a relationship between the road and an erosion phase during the occupation of the mound? or did its riverward slope correspond to the normal mound-morphology accumulation at the time ? What kind of environment was present in the valley when PPN people first settled at the site, and was there a specific reason for the site location choice ? The efforts to answer these questions included mainly fieldwork (including several coring episodes) around the mound, in, accross and along the valley between 2010 and 2015. The present paper provides some answers to the questions posed by U. Esin and Özbasaran

Palaeoenvironmental records in and around PPN Aşıklı site in the Melendiz Valley (Kızılkaya, Aksaray)

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Geomorphological and Palaeoenvironmental Setting of Asikli Hoyük

Archaeology, PalaeoenvironmentInternational audienceGeomorphological research at PPN Asikli Hüyük (ascertained 8.5-7.3 ka cal BP occupation time) started in the early 1990's in the framework of the archaeological excavation and associated projects run by Prof. Dr. U. Esin (1996, 1999a). A first geomorphological field work was done by Prof. Dr. O. Erol, whose unpublished report we were unable to access .In 1995, Prof. Esin asked us to undertake geomorphological research in the Melendiz valley, where the Asikli Höyük settlement was founded. Prof. Esin's main question for us was whether the Melendiz river ever flew at the time of the first settlement, along the eastern sicle of the mound (contrary to today, as it flows west of the mound the edges of which floods currently erodes the site. In 1995 and 1996 , field survey and three cores in the valley (Kuzucuoglu, 2013) did not allow us to answer this question. However, the survey did allow us to define a suite of terraces within the valley, to determine the position of the roof of the bedrock below the terraces in the western part of the mound at only -5 m depth, and to develop hypotheses regarding the possible occurrence of a buried river palaeobed east of the mound (Kuzucuoglu, 2013). In 2010, additional questions were proposed to us by the new director of the excavation, Prof. M. Özbasaran. The first question concerned the "paved road" in Level 3 that descends toward the river bed, and its possible role in establishing some kind of continuity with the Late PPN Musular site established on the opposite flank of the valley. Second question concerned the reconstruction of palaeogeographies at time of the mound PPN occupation. Was there a relationship between the road and an erosion phase during the occupation of the mound? or did its riverward slope correspond to the normal mound-morphology accumulation at the time ? What kind of environment was present in the valley when PPN people first settled at the site, and was there a specific reason for the site location choice ? The efforts to answer these questions included mainly fieldwork (including several coring episodes) around the mound, in, accross and along the valley between 2010 and 2015. The present paper provides some answers to the questions posed by U. Esin and Özbasaran

Geomorphological and Palaeoenvironmental Setting of Asikli Hoyük

Archaeology, PalaeoenvironmentInternational audienceGeomorphological research at PPN Asikli Hüyük (ascertained 8.5-7.3 ka cal BP occupation time) started in the early 1990's in the framework of the archaeological excavation and associated projects run by Prof. Dr. U. Esin (1996, 1999a). A first geomorphological field work was done by Prof. Dr. O. Erol, whose unpublished report we were unable to access .In 1995, Prof. Esin asked us to undertake geomorphological research in the Melendiz valley, where the Asikli Höyük settlement was founded. Prof. Esin's main question for us was whether the Melendiz river ever flew at the time of the first settlement, along the eastern sicle of the mound (contrary to today, as it flows west of the mound the edges of which floods currently erodes the site. In 1995 and 1996 , field survey and three cores in the valley (Kuzucuoglu, 2013) did not allow us to answer this question. However, the survey did allow us to define a suite of terraces within the valley, to determine the position of the roof of the bedrock below the terraces in the western part of the mound at only -5 m depth, and to develop hypotheses regarding the possible occurrence of a buried river palaeobed east of the mound (Kuzucuoglu, 2013). In 2010, additional questions were proposed to us by the new director of the excavation, Prof. M. Özbasaran. The first question concerned the "paved road" in Level 3 that descends toward the river bed, and its possible role in establishing some kind of continuity with the Late PPN Musular site established on the opposite flank of the valley. Second question concerned the reconstruction of palaeogeographies at time of the mound PPN occupation. Was there a relationship between the road and an erosion phase during the occupation of the mound? or did its riverward slope correspond to the normal mound-morphology accumulation at the time ? What kind of environment was present in the valley when PPN people first settled at the site, and was there a specific reason for the site location choice ? The efforts to answer these questions included mainly fieldwork (including several coring episodes) around the mound, in, accross and along the valley between 2010 and 2015. The present paper provides some answers to the questions posed by U. Esin and Özbasaran

Off-site environmental sequences around Aşıklı Höyük PPN site.(central Anatolia, Turkey): A contribution to 14C chronology of the site occupation on different temporal and spatial scales

International audienceAşıklı Höyük is a unique site in the archaeological network of early sedentary societies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Located in Central Anatolia, it is with Kaletepe, Boncuklu and Balıklı, one the oldest Neolithic sites of Turkey west of the Taurus. The occupation spans the whole Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) in Central Anatolia, from c. > 8350 to 7300 BC (> 10.3 to 9.25 ka cal BP). Excavated since 1989, the site is composed of five cultural levels. It is located in a flood valley environment that was widely filled by Late Glacial deposits, and that showed environmental variability before, during and after the settling of PPN population. Today, the remains of the Late Glacial terrace are positioned c. 4m above the present river bed below Aşıklı mound. Although not seen in today’s landscape of the valley because of active lateral erosion during the Holocene, the terrace is also well preserved below colluvium east of the mound. Six cores and four soundings performed around the site between 2010 and 2015 have revealed an unexpected spatial growth of the site during Level 2 (the latest PPN level). The results of this palaeoenvironmental program, produced in connection with the archaeological project, evidence entangled relationships between the site’s occupation and the environment, which ultimately modified both the landforms and the settlement remains after the abandonment of the site

Analyse des interrelations entre crise hydrologique et fait urbain portuaire en Loire bourbonnaise et nivernaise depuis le Moyen Âge : nouvelles approches méthodologiques

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