Settlement patterns of Altınova in the early bronze age

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Dikkaya, Fahri

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This study aims to investigate the settlement patterns of Altinova in the Early Bronze Age and its reflection to social and cultural phenomena. Altinova, which is the most arable plain in Eastern Anatolia, is situated in the borders of Elazig province. The region in the Early Bronze Age was the conjunction and interaction area for two main cultural complexes in the Near East, which were Syro-Mesopotamia and Transcaucasia, with a strong local character. The effect of the foreign and local cultural interactions to the settlement patterns of Altinova in the Early Bronze Age and its reflection in the socio-economic structures have been discussed in the social perspective. In addition, the settlement distribution and its system were analyzed through the quantitative methods, that were gravity model, rank-size analysis, and nearest neighbor analysis. The results of these quantitative analyses with the archaeological data have been discussed in the social and theoretical context.

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Bronze age, Elazığ (Turkey), Land settlement patterns, Settlement patterns, Early bronze age, Keban Dam, Population, Early transcaucasian culture, Gravity model, Nearest neighbor analysis, Landscape archaeology, Settlement hierarchy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13818

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F. Dikkaya, “Settlement patterns of Altınova in the early bronze age,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.