The Rural Settlement Pattern of Bozburun Peninsula During Classical and Hellenistic Periods

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Oğuz, Eser Deniz

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Located in southwest Caria, Bozburun Peninsula (Carian Chersonesos/ Rhodian Peraea) is a big network of chorai with cleverly managed agricultural terraces and rural settlements scattered across an undulated topography and scarce resources whereby spatial patterns must have been formed according to various needs. The objective of this research is to understand the manner of organisation of rural settlements, the so-called “demes (δεμι)” which were essentially shaped according to environmental conditions and agrarian motives in Classical and Hellenistic periods and that gave rise to tremendous demographic expansions in 3rd- 2nd centuries B.C, and explain the change process in the rural settlement pattern thereof. The scope area is limited with the southern horizontal border line of Turgut Village until the isthmus on the mainland. Extensive surveys and aerial applications fused by GIS and photogrammetric techniques have shown that orientation of deme centers, which are located at 5 km intervals with 30 km2 territoriums on average, fit to topography and their dispersed patterns but non-random spatial structure was economy driven during the Rhodian colonization. Projections endeavored for the sampling case of Phoinix have revealed that settlement areas, which are made up of only 2% of terrain, occurred up to 200 m where slope degrees reach 30% over terra-rosa soil cover, regardless of aspect. The general silhouette, as highly affected by fragmented environments and, reconstruction of ancient population put forward that the Classical deme transformed itself into a dendritic pattern extending as far as 1.3 km and experienced 250% increase as it grew into the Hellenistic period.

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Archaeology., Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric, Human settlements.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615906/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22584

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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E. D. Oğuz, “The Rural Settlement Pattern of Bozburun Peninsula During Classical and Hellenistic Periods,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2013.