Kuzeybatı İran ve Güney Kafkasya ile birlikte Doğu Anadolu genelini Erken Tunç Çağ’da karakterize eden enönemli kültürel yapı; “Kura-Aras Kültürü”dür. Bu büyük, çok bileşenli kültürel yapının bünyesinde, çok sayıdaözelliğin yanı sıra sorunlar da bulunmaktadır. Bu özellik ve sorunlardan biri de kültürün ölü gömme gelenekleriile ilgilidir. Bu konunun sorun olarak ortaya çıkmasında temel ayrım, nekropol kazılarının azlığıdır. Son dönemdeyapılan araştırmalara göre, tüm Güney Kafkasya’da, kazılan alanlar içerisinde mezarlık içeren birim sayısı sadece111 dir. Konumuz olan Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi’nde ise hiç bir nekropol alanı kazılmamıştır. Bu yörede kazılanmezarlar münferit mezarlar olup, yerleşim içi gömü niteliği göstermektedirler. Bu mezarlara göre kültüre dair birgömü geleneği ve mezarlık tipolojisi ortaya konmuş olsa da bunlar yeterli olmaktan uzaktır. 2016 ve 2017 yıllarındaErzurum Ovası’ndaki Alaybeyi Höyük’te TANAP Trans – Anadolu Doğal Gaz Boru Hattı Projesi kapsamındayapılan kurtarma kazılarında, bir grup Kura-Aras mezarı tespit edilmiştir. Bu çalışma hem eldeki verileri dikkatealarak Güney Kafkasya ve Doğu Anadolu’daki Kura-Aras gömü uygulamalarına dair genel bir değerlendirme hemde Alaybeyi mezarlarını kapsamlı olarak bilim dünyasına sunma amacındadır.
The Early Bronze Age of the Eastern Anatolian Highlands, North-western Iran and Southern Caucasus has been characterized by the Kura-Araxes cultural complex, which has major significance by way of its chronology and geography. The main problem that we have is insufficient knowledge of its funerary practices, and the principal reason for this problem is a lack of excavations on necropolis sites, or on sites with burials. According to a recent study the total number of excavated sites with burials in the Southern Caucasus numbers just 111. The picture is even darker for the Eastern Anatolian Highlands. There has been no excavated graveyard in the highland up until now. Only discrete burials have been found in the region at limited excavated Kura-Araxes sites, and so far they have failed to present a burial tradition, or typology of graves, for the Kura-Araxes culture of Eastern Anatolia. Recent rescue excavation works, within the scope of the TANAP project, have been undertaken between 2016 and 2017 at
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | March 1, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Issue: 1 |
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