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Komana Ortaçağ Yerleşimi / The Medieval Settlement at Komana, 2015
We have visited the proposed location of the site of Komana in 2004 first with Asst.Prof. Geoffre... more We have visited the proposed location of the site of Komana in 2004 first with Asst.Prof. Geoffrey Summers then with Prof.Vedat Toprak and Prof.M.L.Süzen. At these preliminary visits at this site, which had struck me with its peculiar social, administrative and economic characteristics during my PhD research and which proved to have a great potential in understanding the archaeology, history and religion in Hellenistic Pontus, we have observed that the ruins were buried under deep aluvial depositions and further archaeological work would be difficult due to geomorphological processes at the site. Yet, the hill in the middle of the village of Kılıçlı (Gümenek) and the scattered architectural fragments around this hill and in the village indicated that it would be worth initiating further research at the site. In the month of October of the same year, a small team of four began surveys which continued until 2009. During the surveys both the immediate area around the hill mentioned above (Hamamtepe) and the area within the borders of Roman Komana which coincided with the Merkez province of modern day Tokat was investigated. These surveys enabled us to define the urban borders of Komana with the help of architectural remains and the identification of the necropoleis. Surveys also indicated that communities continuously existed in the larger territory from the Late Chalcolithic period onwards. Sites dating to various periods were identified however, the Middle Byzantine sites had signaled a unique settlement network. XIV Cultural Directorate, Museum, Office of Tokat Provincial Administration, Members of the Provincial Council, especially Daim Namlı. The village of Bula welcomed us to their village with the initiative of the vilage headman Ahmet Yılmaz. We are very thankful for their hospitality. Men and women who served on excavation from the villages of Bula and Kılıçlı have become an inseperable part of our project.
Komana Ortaçağ Yerleşimi / The Medieval Settlement at Komana, 2015
We have visited the proposed location of the site of Komana in 2004 first with Asst.Prof. Geoffre... more We have visited the proposed location of the site of Komana in 2004 first with Asst.Prof. Geoffrey Summers then with Prof.Vedat Toprak and Prof.M.L.Süzen. At these preliminary visits at this site, which had struck me with its peculiar social, administrative and economic characteristics during my PhD research and which proved to have a great potential in understanding the archaeology, history and religion in Hellenistic Pontus, we have observed that the ruins were buried under deep aluvial depositions and further archaeological work would be difficult due to geomorphological processes at the site. Yet, the hill in the middle of the village of Kılıçlı (Gümenek) and the scattered architectural fragments around this hill and in the village indicated that it would be worth initiating further research at the site. In the month of October of the same year, a small team of four began surveys which continued until 2009. During the surveys both the immediate area around the hill mentioned above (Hamamtepe) and the area within the borders of Roman Komana which coincided with the Merkez province of modern day Tokat was investigated. These surveys enabled us to define the urban borders of Komana with the help of architectural remains and the identification of the necropoleis. Surveys also indicated that communities continuously existed in the larger territory from the Late Chalcolithic period onwards. Sites dating to various periods were identified however, the Middle Byzantine sites had signaled a unique settlement network. XIV Cultural Directorate, Museum, Office of Tokat Provincial Administration, Members of the Provincial Council, especially Daim Namlı. The village of Bula welcomed us to their village with the initiative of the vilage headman Ahmet Yılmaz. We are very thankful for their hospitality. Men and women who served on excavation from the villages of Bula and Kılıçlı have become an inseperable part of our project.