Erken Tunç Çağı'nda Anadolu Kamusal Yapıları
Özet
This study examines public buildings in 18 centres of the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia.
The main aim of the thesis is to identify the emergence and rise of public buildings in
Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age, the main dynamics that brought about this rise,
and to determine their regional, temporal, qualitative and quantitative similarities and
differences in Anatolia. While in the early phases of the Early Bronze Age public
buildings were observed in only a few centres, the number of settlements where these
structures were observed increased from the second half of the Early Bronze Age
onwards, and they are represented by one or more examples in almost every region of
Anatolia. As is well known, the second half of the Early Bronze Age is a very dynamic
period with many changes and movements. During this period, social complexity
increased with the growing need for raw materials, especially mineral resources, and local
and regional ruling elites emerged to control access, accumulation and distribution of
these raw materials in order to increase their power. These ruling elites and the emergence
of public structures appear to be related. It is assumed that these ruling elites engaged in
long–distance interactions to consolidate their status; it is assumed that they carried out
their administrative, ritual, communal, feasting and ceremonial practices from public
buildings. It is assumed that Anatolian public buildings showed a hybrid structure,
influenced both by their own internal dynamics and by the surrounding cultural regions
during the period of global interactions that were particularly active in the second half of
the Early Bronze Age; in some centres architectural ideas were transferred, but local
features were also preserved.
