Plovdağ arkeolojik kazılarına 1986 yılında başlanmıştır. Üç yıl süren çalışmalarda Plovdağ I Nekropolü’nde 32adet kurgan ve Son Tunç Çağı yerleşimnin küçük bir kısmı kazılmıştır. Plovdağ’da arkeolojik kazılar yeniden 2004yılında başlamış, bu çalışmalarda dağın kuzey yamacında 5 hektarlık bir alana yayılmış 2 numaralı nekropol -kurqan mezarlığı bulunmuştur. 2 numaralı nekropolün merkezi alanında Geç ve Orta Tunç Çağ kurganlarınınınaltında Erken Tunç Çağ yerleşimi ortaya çıkarılmıştır.Plovdağ II Nekropol’ünde günümüze kadar 93 adet mezar incelenmiştir. Bu mezarların çoğu taş sanduka veyatoprak mezarlı kurganlardır. Büyük kurganların içinde çanak çömlekler bulunan “sunaklar” vardır.Araştırmalar sonucunda, Plovdağ II Nekropolü’nde MÖ IV. Binyılın sonlarından MÖ II. Binyılın ortalarına kadarsüregelen sabit bir gömü geleneğinin varlığı anlaşılmıştır. MÖ II. Binyılın ortalarından sonra sal taşlı mezarlarınyaygınlaşması ile gömü geleneğinde keskin değişimler meydana gelir. Sal taşlı mezarlar hem inşa teknikleri, hem demalzemelerine göre kurganlardan keskin şekilde ayrılırlar.2012 yılında Plovdağ’da yeni ortaya çıkarılmış Erken ve Son Tunç Çağlarına ait III numaralı nekropolün kazılarınabaşlanmıştır. Bu nekropolde 16 adet “sunaklı” bir kurgan açığa çıkarılmıştır. Bu gelenek Nahçıvan bölgesindeyaşayan eski kabileler arasında “atalar kültünün” varlığını gösterir. Plovdağ nekropollerinin arkeolojik olarakaraştırılması Tunç Çağı’nda MÖ IV-II. Binler Nahçivan’ın kabilelerinin ölü gömme gelenekleri ve inançlarıhakkında detaylı bilgiler elde etmeye olanak sağlamaktadır.
Excavations at the site of Plovdag began in 1986. Thirty-two Bronze Age burial mounds and a part of the settlement were examined in the three years. Excavations that restarted at the northern slope of mountain, after a long pause, in 2004, revealed a second necropolis covering an area of around 5 hectares. An Early Bronze settlement was discovered in the central part of necropolis under Middle and Late Bronze burial mounds. On the second necropolis, there were examined 72 burials of different types investigated on the second necropolis. They are largely burial mounds with a stone box or graves. Large, richly decorated burial mounds are equipped with “altars”, i.e. burial chambers with a set of vessel. A constant burial rite had been observed from the end of the 4th millennium to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC in the Plovdag second necropolis. Radical changes in the funeral rite occurred in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC following the appearance of the so-called tiled graves. In terms of their construction and finds, these graves were quite different from burial mounds. In 2012, third necropolis discovered in Plovdag which dates back to the Early and Late Bronze Age. On the third necropolis, a grave with 16 “altars” with an illustration of the cult of ancestors among ancient tribes of Nakhichevan were excavated
| Primary Language | English |
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| Publication Date | March 1, 2018 |
| IZ | https://izlik.org/JA46XC44UE |
| Published in Issue | Year 2018 Issue: 1 |
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