ANDRONOVO KÜLTÜREL TOPLULUĞU’NDA “TARIMSAL EKONOMİ” VE “YERLEŞİKLİK” SORUNU

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 1031 - 1052, 27.10.2025

Ahmet Ziya Bayburt

https://doi.org/10.69878/deuefad.1695542

Abstract

Andronovo Kültürel Topluluğu geniş bir alana yayılan çok sayıda buluntu merkeziyle ilgi uyandıran bir bozkır kültürüdür. Bu nedenle Tunç Çağı bozkır kültürlerinin yaşam biçimini anlamak için Andronovo Kültürel Topluluğu, özel bir öneme sahiptir. Andronovo Kültürel Topluluğu’na ait ortaya çıkarılan çok sayıda yerleşim onun yerleşik bir kültür olduğu düşüncesini yaygınlaştırmıştır. Yerleşik kültür problemini geçimlik ekonomi üzerinden tekrar ele aldık. Geçimlik ekonomi, bozkır kültürlerinin içinde geliştiği çevresel koşullara göre şekillenir. İklimsel değişimler, çevresel koşulları yeniden şekillendirir. Bozkır coğrafyasında Neolitik Çağ’dan Erken Demir Çağı’na uzanan dönem boyunca çevresel koşullarda yaşanan değişimler bozkır kültürlerinin yaşam tarzını belirler. Amacımız Andronovo Kültürel Topluluğu bağlamında Tunç Çağı bozkır kültürlerinin geçimlik ekonomisini ve yaşam tarzını değerlendirmektir.

Keywords

Andronovo , Avrasya Bozkır Kültürü , Göçebelik , Yerleşiklik , Geçimlik Ekonomi

THE PROBLEM OF “AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY” AND “SEDENTISM” IN THE ANDRONOVO CULTURAL COMMUNITY

Abstract

The Andronovo Cultural Community is an intriguing steppe culture, characterized by numerous discovery sites spread across a vast area. Therefore, the Andronovo Cultural Community holds particular importance for understanding the way of life of Bronze Age steppe cultures. he large number of settlements belonging to the Andronovo Cultural Community have been discovered, which has popularized the idea that it was a settled culture. We have reexamined the problem of sedentism through the perspective of subsistence economy. Subsistence economy is shaped by the environmental conditions in which steppe cultures evolved. Climatic changes reshape environmental conditions. Throughout the period from the Neolithic Age to the Early Iron Age, changes in environmental conditions within the steppe geography determined the way of life of steppe cultures. Our aim is to evaluate the subsistence economy and way of life of Bronze Age steppe cultures in the context of the Andronovo Cultural Community.

Keywords

Andronovo , Eurasian Steppe Culture , Sedentarism , Nomadism , Subsistence Economy

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