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This dissertation presents a critical study of the landscapes of Achaemenid-period Paphlagonia (c... more This dissertation presents a critical study of the landscapes of Achaemenid-period Paphlagonia (c. 550-330 BCE), a mountainous region in northern central Turkey that extends from the verdant Black Sea coast to the sparser Anatolian plateau. In the classical literary sources and the imperial narratives of the Achaemenid Empire, the region of Paphlagonia has been characterized as a mountainous frontier, inhabited by migrants and ruled by gluttonous dynasts. Classically-informed historians writing about the Achaemenid period also speak of Paphlagonia as a bounded region, divided into several rival chiefdoms. Recent archaeological surveys and excavations in the region, however, present a different perspective: a complex and contested landscape politically and culturally related to the Black Sea and Anatolia, as well as the wider Aegean and Achaemenid worlds. A series of ubiquitous, columnar rockcut tombs spread across the Paphlagonian landscape function as significant monuments where such hybrid identities and political alignments are negotiated.
The dissertation develops a post-colonial critique of the ancient and modern discourses that reimagine Paphlagonia and Paphlagonians as marginal, uncivilized, and tribal. It traces the genealogy of how the region of Paphlagonia within classical geography came about in the work of 19th and 20th century colonial antiquarians, geographers, and archaeologists; and demonstrates the modernist and nationalist underpinnings of their writings. Furthermore, the dissertation brings together data from recent archaeological surveys and excavations in the region to provide a fuller picture of the various landscapes of Paphlagonia, with special emphasis on the relationship of rockcut funerary monuments and settlement to copper mining, karst landscapes, and forest ecologies. Finally, the dissertation demonstrates a critical methodology of an archaeology of landscapes by deconstructing ancient and modern discourses about them and creating a new analytical framework, using a combination of archaeological survey, archival research, and critical perspectives.

Book Chapters by Peri Johnson

Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Byzantine period, 2015

Pompeiopolis I; eine Zwischenbilanz aus der Metropole Paphlagoniens nach fünf Kampagnen (2006-2010), 2011

Articles by Peri Johnson

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2022

Th is article layers material, physical, and textual landscapes of the Hittite Empire in a compac... more Th is article layers material, physical, and textual landscapes of the Hittite Empire in a compact borderland region. We argue that a real strength of landscape archaeology is in understanding and articulating medium-scale landscapes through archaeological survey methods and critical study of physical geography. Medium-scale landscapes are a milieu of daily human experience, movement, and visuality that spawn a densely textured countryside involving settlements, sacred places, quarries, roads, transhumance routes, and water infrastructures. Using the data and the experience from eight fi eld seasons by the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project team since 2010, we off er accounts of three specifi c landscapes: the Ilgın Plain, the Bulasan River valley near the Hittite fortress of Kale Tepesi, and the pastoral uplands of Yalburt Yaylası. For each, we demonstrate diff erent sets of relationships and landscape dynamics during the Late Bronze Age, with specifi c emphasis on movement, settlement, taskscapes, land use, and human experience

The archaeology of Anatolia, vol. 4; recent discoveries (2018–2020), 2021

The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume III, 2019

The route through the Ilgın Plain is also understood to be a prominent one in the Anatolian excha... more The route through the Ilgın Plain is also understood to be a prominent one in the Anatolian exchange network during antiquity and afterwards. During the early Middle Bronze Age, the so-called Assyrian trading colony period in Anatolia, the major east–west route carrying the silver trade presumably went through the region, and it has been proposed that the port of trade for silver, Purušḫanda, must have been located somewhere along the Ilgın - Akşehir - Afyon axis. According to Strabo, Tyriaion (the Hellenistic/Roman urban settlement under Ilgın) is on the Hellenistic “common road” from Ephesus to the Euphrates. Moreover, it is known that the last Seljuk vizier, Sahip Ata, built a caravanserai in Ilgın to support trade. The study of interregional road infrastructures, largely derived from such anecdotal archival evidence, is helpful to some extent in understanding the connections between regional and local networks. However, investigating the complex local and microregional roads and routes requires a different methodology entirely, one that combines archaeological surface survey, geomorphology, and a long-term, deeply historical understanding of settlement histories. During the 2018 field season, the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project foregrounded the question of roads and routes in the Ilgın Plain and in the wider survey area using the archaeological surface evidence for settlement and geomorphology. In this chapter we outline the preliminary results of the research.

The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Descoveries (2015-2016) Volume II, 2017

Landscape archaeologists are well equipped to investigate long-term structural changes in settlem... more Landscape archaeologists are well equipped to investigate long-term structural changes in settlement landscapes, especially through their collaborations with geomorphologists and paleo-environmental scientists. In the last several decades, landscape projects around the world have gradually built an extensive record of human-environment relationships in the Holocene, which started 11,700 years ago with the beginnings of agriculture and settled life. In the age of the Anthropocene, the proposed new geological epoch to follow the Holocene, survey archaeologists increasingly find themselves working in ruined postindustrial landscapes, salvage operations that are dictated by development projects, sites of mining and incommensurable extraction, and the margins of military conflict. These are the landscapes of the Anthropocene, torn apart from the traditionally idealized and pristine landscapes of the Holocene.
Landscapes of the Anthropocene are the lithosphere’s asphalt and concrete layers, sites of mining, extreme extraction, industrial-scale intervention, and chemical contamination; and second, the atmosphere’s global warming gases made from what has been excavated from the earth (fossil fuels like coal). A thirty-three square km open pit lignite mine and power plant are planned for the cultivated fields and pastoral foothills of the Çavuşçu-Kurugöl lake basin that lies within the survey area of the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project in the Ilgın district of Konya province. This proposed sacrificial landscape is a part of the Anthropocene’s lithosphere and atmosphere. In this article, we present a third affected sphere by undertaking a comparison of the hydrosphere of Holocene (Bronze Age) and Anthropocene (contemporary/postindustrial) landscapes, focusing particularly on the dramatic changes in the hydrosphere that have made the agricultural landscapes of Ilgın disposable, thus laying the groundwork for making the lignite mine an acceptable future for the region.

The Archaeology of Anatolia: Current Work (2013-2014). Sharon Steadman and Gregory McMahon (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Press, 259-281., Sep 2015

The Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project is a diachronic regional survey in central w... more The Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project is a diachronic regional survey in central western Turkey, covering an area in the northwest of Konya Province in the district of Ilgın, with some spillover into the districts of Kadınhanı and Yunak. The survey project was initiated in 2010 in the landscapes around two well-known Hittite (Late Bronze Age) imperial monuments with hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions (Fig. 12-1). Both monuments were built in the southwestern borderlands of the Hittite Empire: the Yalburt Yaylası sacred mountain spring monument of Tudḫaliya IV (1237-1209 BCE) and the Köylütolu Yayla earthen dam. This paper summarizes the preliminary results of the survey between 2010 and 2014.

Harmanşah, Ömür and Peri Johnson; 2016. “Hittites on the Way to the Mediterranean: Yalburt Yaylas... more Harmanşah, Ömür and Peri Johnson; 2016. “Hittites on the Way to the Mediterranean: Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Project 2015 Campaign - Akdeniz’e Doğru Hititler: Yalburt Yaylası Arkeolojik Yüzey Araştırma Projesi 2015 Sezonu” ANMED News of Archaeology from ANATOLIA’S MEDITERRANEAN AREAS 2016-14: 296-300.

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To the north of the Ilgın Plain and on the southern slopes of the Gavurdağ-Karadağ massif lies Ya... more To the north of the Ilgın Plain and on the southern slopes of the Gavurdağ-Karadağ massif lies Yalburt, a summer pasture settlement (a yayla) belonging to the village of Şuhut/ Çobankaya. As the story is told by the residents of Yalburt, immediately uphill from the yayla used to be a well known as Kocakuyu that had the sweetest and the coldest waters in the area. No matter how much you drew from it, its water was never lessened.

Arkeoloji Aktüel 37, Mar 2014

30. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı Bildirileri., May 2013

Field Reports by Peri Johnson

Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Byzantine period, 2015

Pompeiopolis I; eine Zwischenbilanz aus der Metropole Paphlagoniens nach fünf Kampagnen (2006-2010), 2011

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2022

The archaeology of Anatolia, vol. 4; recent discoveries (2018–2020), 2021

The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume III, 2019

The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Descoveries (2015-2016) Volume II, 2017

The Archaeology of Anatolia: Current Work (2013-2014). Sharon Steadman and Gregory McMahon (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Press, 259-281., Sep 2015

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Arkeoloji Aktüel 37, Mar 2014

30. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı Bildirileri., May 2013

Art & architecture of Greece from the prehistoric Aegean to the Hellenistic period

What do Egyptian mummies, the recent occupation of Taksim Gezi Parkı, and geographic information ... more What do Egyptian mummies, the recent occupation of Taksim Gezi Parkı, and geographic information systems have in common? Each is an example of the continuing entanglement of archaeology in the political economy of the contemporary Middle East, and they play significant roles in the creation of a sense of belonging in communities. At its beginnings, archaeology was the handmaiden of teleological stories of the rise of the west and the colonization of the Middle East such as the orientalist discourse of ex oriente lux. As nationalism rose in the region, the archaeology of carefully chosen cultures such as the Hittites in Turkey and ancient Judaic cultures in Israel/Palestine became incorporated into state Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1931 Sadabad Palace scenario, 2010 Saddam Hussein mural, 1989 ideologies that neglected contested cultures and alternative histories, for example, the Median (Kurdish) and Urartian (Armenian). Building on a foundation of critical readings on these colonial and national archaeologies, this seminar will focus on the contemporary place of archaeology in the political economy of the Middle East. Key topics are the tourism and commodification of culture; mummies and noxious markets; heritage industries; war, civil unrest, and the technologies of war and surveillance; and the embedding of archaeologists and anthropologists in the military.

An intensive introduction to the art and architecture of the Greek world from the Geometric to He... more An intensive introduction to the art and architecture of the Greek world from the Geometric to Hellenistic periods with assignments based on study of artifacts in the University of Pennsylvanian Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and buildings in Philadelphia. The course consists of lectures and discussions that will cover a range of topics ranging from stylistic innovation and persistence, commemorative genres, narrative and artistic program, patronage to tectonic structure and Greek urbanism. In addition to this range, the course will consider the broader theme of how the architecture of the body politic and the politics of the representation of the body have influenced the particular trajectory of Greek art and architecture, drawing on primary literary and archaeological evidence as well as critical studies.

Office hours by appointment only (Send email message to arrange a meeting. Monday afternoons are ... more Office hours by appointment only (Send email message to arrange a meeting. Monday afternoons are preferable.) Mailbox in front office of Jaffe Blackboard course website: http://courseweb.library.upenn.edu (information for new users of Blackboard:

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2020

The home page contains the full table of contents of all published issues of the journal, as well... more The home page contains the full table of contents of all published issues of the journal, as well as an index of all books reviewed arranged alphabetically by author, and indices by topic and by site. The home page also gives details of titles in the supplementary series (with special offers for individuals). Table of contents of fascicule 2 Review articles and long reviews K. Lockyear Identity in the European Iron Age T. A. J. McGinn The XII Tables, the Decemvirate, and modern scholarship D. F. Maras Fragments of knowledge and memory from Poggio Civitate E. O'Donoghue Caere/Cerveteri and Pyrgi: the first volume of "Cities of the Etruscans" V. Jolivet Sites étrusques, 'majeurs' et 'mineurs': deux nouvelles séries M. Carroll Sub-adult burials in pre-Roman Italy M. Carroll A conference on the archaeology of death and burial in ancient Italy T. P. Wiseman From Romulus to Tarquin: reconstructing Rome's expansion A. J. Ammerman On Rome of the Kings T. P. Wiseman Crossing the pomerium I. Bragantini Il soffito in stucco di un ambiente di una casa tardorepubblicana del Palatino L. Shipley A festival and feast of archaeological information flowing along the Tiber S. Bernard Integration, institutions, and the economy of Republican Italy K. R. Bradley Rome of the Late Republic and Early Empire: dignitas in the oeuvre of Oxford's Miriam Griffin J. Bodel "Religious history in the making" A. Alvar Nuño The power of things: the materiality of magic in the Roman empire A. Gavini Homo isiacus. I culti isiaci attraverso i materiali e gli uomini che li hanno prodotti K. R. Bradley Nero: suspension of disbelief D. L. Bomgardner Another view of the Colosseum S. Pearson Holding up the mirror to research on the Iseum Campense C. Ando What was the Roman empire? W. V. Harris Defining and disputing environmental change J. Cutright Employing science in Roman archaeology and history P. Komar Is it possible to quantify the ancient economy? C. Vout An exhibition centred on an extraordinary portrait of Antinous F. S. Kleiner The historical reliefs of the Museo Gregoriano Profano M. Beckmann The medallions of Antoninus Pius R. Reece What use was, and is, Roman coinage? B. Emme The social dimensions of tombs of the 1st-2nd c. A.D. and changes in funerary culture K. Meinecke What can be done with the ubiquitous strigillated sarcophagi V. Dasen In the search for early childhood L. A. Mazurek Looking at the Nile from afar: new ways of seeing imperialism in Roman history and art S. Zanella La casa a Pompei: revisioni stratigrafiche attraverso la casa del Chirurgo M. T. Lauritsen Residential façades in the Vesuvian cities Table of contents of fascicule 2 (continued) C. Bruun Dancing in the street. Or in the kitchen? Slaves, freedmen, magistri vici, and grassroots leaders M. Lépée Un panorama diachronique du commerce de détail dans le monde romain C. Pavolini Onorare gli dèi a Ostia e a Porto E. Fentress Architecture, agriculture and otium K. Cassibry The discourse on objects in Roman and late-antique studies M. G. Fulford Reviving and re-imagining the forum at Gloucester M. Symonds Putting the wall into Hadrian's Wall R. Reece The later 3rd-c. A.D. hoard from Bath and the matter of savings or emergency hoarding K. M. D. Dunbabin The myths of Boxford: questions about the patron and the designer of the mosaic E. M. Stern A major work on colourless glass in Roman Gaul A. Martin The market for Gaulish Sigillata in the Cisalpine region F. Heimerl Der Obergermanisch-Raetische Limes revisited E. Botte Une synthèse sur l'exploitation de la mer en Maurétanie Tingitane A. H. Walas A 21st-century frontier? Revisiting Rome's North African borders N. Mugnai Reconstructing the history and architecture of the Curia in the Forum Vetus at Lepcis Magna J. J. Rossiter Coins, bones and lamps from the Swedish excavations at Carthage C. Sagona A thorough study of the pottery of Roman Malta R. E. Kolarik Corpus of the mosaics of Albania, vol. 1: Butrint and its workshops C. Moser Putting the sacred into space A. Kouremenos A hefty conference volume on Roman Greece J. Lund Lamps found at Isthmia between 1967 and 2004 P. Johnson A conference on place and identity on the south and west coasts of the Black Sea C. P. Jones Sardis: a new look at its history and a new corpus of its inscriptions A. Monterroso-Checa La escena del teatro de Aphrodisias: el eslabón imprescindible para los teatros de Roma y Occidente E. K. Gazda The sculptor's workshop at Aphrodisias: the remains of a sculptural practice from the Severan age to late antiquity E. Öğüş A late-Severan Theatrum aquae at Hierapolis M. Waelkens Still in search of the origin and meaning of the 'colonnaded street' W. E. Metcalf A private collection of Cappadocian coinage E. M. Stern The Cesnola collection of ancient glass in The Metropolitan Museum of Art C. S. Lightfoot The Upper Tigris region and the work still to be done J. C. Meyer Cultural diversity on the fringe of empire L. Gregoratti An enjoyable story of a rebel queen S. Fünfschilling A first German publication of glass from the Beirut City Center Archaeological Project

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Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies , 2022

This article layers material, physical, and textual landscapes of the Hittite Empire in a compact... more This article layers material, physical, and textual landscapes of the Hittite Empire in a compact borderland region. We argue that a real strength of landscape archaeology is in understanding and articulating medium-scale landscapes through archaeological survey methods and critical study of physical geography. Medium-scale landscapes are a milieu of daily human experience, movement, and visuality that spawn a densely textured countryside involving settlements, sacred places, quarries, roads, transhumance routes, and water infrastructures. Using the data and the experience from eight field seasons by the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project team since 2010, we offer accounts of three specific landscapes: the Ilgın Plain, the Bulasan River valley near the Hittite fortress of Kale Tepesi, and the pastoral uplands of Yalburt Yaylası. For each, we demonstrate different sets of relationships and landscape dynamics during the Late Bronze Age, with specific emphasis on movement, settlement, taskscapes, land use, and human experience.

The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume IV: Recent Discoveries (2018-2020), 2021

Mountains are often groundlessly thought of as romantic backwaters lacking in development and civ... more Mountains are often groundlessly thought of as romantic backwaters lacking in development and civility, and portrayed as unruly places to pass through by academics working under the influence of ideologies of the state. Binaries of the urban and the rural, or the perception of civilized lowlands and crude shepherds and loggers, do not adequately account for the linear ecologies that intimately connect the plains to the mountains. In this chapter we advocate for the significance of these connecting ecologies that resist the colonial or statist marginalization of mountain peoples and places. These connecting linear ecologies are substantive landscapes of everyday movement, the flow of water, taskscapes, and interconnected land use, and are not limited to roads and routes.

Academic perspectives on ancient communities of the mountains tend to associate them with “landscapes of terror” (e.g., Matthews 2004). In these scenarios, marginalized mountain peoples are presented either as “tribal” threats to urbanized elites of the prosperous plains and lowland and river valleys, or impediments to regional circulation (Horden and Purcell 2000: 80). Such perspectives are produced under the influence of urban archives; they are typical of uncritical characterizations of mountains from an elitist bias and have to be taken with a grain of salt. Archaeological survey evidence, strengthened by ethnohistorical research, presents a far more even-handed perspective on life in the mountains. In this chapter we point to the intimately entangled nature of lowlands and mountains in the local context of west central Anatolia. This chapter is a modest attempt to bring back mountains as complex and connected landscapes of alterity and to invite mountains back to their place within settlement history.

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Orta Anadolu’nun ana karayolları üzerindeki pek çok tozlu ve uykulu kasabası gibi Ilgın ilçesi de... more Orta Anadolu’nun ana karayolları üzerindeki pek çok tozlu ve uykulu kasabası gibi Ilgın ilçesi de ovası ile birlikte içinden geçerken zor farkedilen, dışarıdan pek de kayda değer bir izlenim uyandırmayan bir peyzaj olarak görülebilir. Tarihin çeşitli evrelerinde, mesela M.Ö. 13. yüzyıl kralı 4. Tudhaliya’nın Ilgın’dan geçerek gittiği güneybatı Akdeniz seferinden övgüyle bahsettiği Yalburt Yaylası yazıtını okursanız, ya da Akamenid kralı Genç Kiros’un Ilgın ovasında paralı askerlerini bir araya getirip talim etmesini Zenofon’dan dinlerseniz, ve hatta çok daha yakın zamanda Mustafa Kemal’in aynı ovada 1922’de gerçekleştirdiği askeri manevrayı dikkatlice düşünürseniz; emperyal, askeri, ve ekonomik arşivlerin tarih boyunca Ilgın’ı sadece gelinip geçilen, geçici bir süre durulan bir yer olarak tasavvur ettiğini söyleyebiliriz. Ancak bu tarihsel kayıtlar ve arşivler, büyük ölçekli askeri seferlerden ya da kıtaları boylu boyuna geçen ticaret yollarından bahis açarken, bir yandan da Ilgın’ın kendine has bir mekân ve yerel karakteri olan bir peyzaj olarak anlaşılmasına engel olur, bu anlatıları göz ardı eder, ya da taraflı temsil eder. Bu makalede Yalburt Yaylası ve Çevresi Arkeolojik Yüzey Araştırma Projesi 2018 saha çalışmalarını özetlerken, Ilgın ve çevresinde Uluyol adı ile bilinen önemli ve yerel bir tarihsel yolun hikâyesini sunmak ve tarih arşivlerinde sürekli olarak baskın olan bu askeri sefer ve ticari kervan yolları söylemlerini sorgulamayı umuyoruz. Böylelikle de, metodolojik olarak yerleşim tarihi yazımında sürekli olarak söz sahibi yapılan tarihsel arşivlerin o sarsılmaz otoritesini, tarihsel metinlerin karşısına arkeolojik verileri koyarak ve siyasî ekoloji bakış açısını kullanarak bir nebze sarsmak istiyoruz.

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2010 yılından beri aralıksız olarak Konya İli, Ilgın İlçesi sınırları içinde sürdürülen Yalburt Y... more 2010 yılından beri aralıksız olarak Konya İli, Ilgın İlçesi sınırları içinde sürdürülen Yalburt Yaylası ve Çevresi Arkeolojik Yüzey Araştırma Projesi, diyakronik bir yerleşim peyzajı tarihi projesi olarak jeomorfolojik araştırmaları arkeolojik yüzey taramaları ile eş ağırlıkta sürdüregelmiştir. Proje, daha önceki yayınlardan da anlaşılacağı gibi Tunç Çağı’nın sonlarından Demir Çağı ve onu takip eden Akamenid-Helenistik dönemlerine geçiş üzerine odaklanırken, araş-tırmanın ana amaç ve objektiflerini Hitit İmparatorluğu döneminde Pedassa bölgesinin üstlendiği sınır bölgesi kimliğinin yerel malzeme kültürü ve yerleşim coğrafyasına izdüşümlerinin anlaşılması oluşturur. Hidrolojik olarak biribirlerine bağlı Ilgın Ovası, Atlantı Ovası ve Çavuşçu Gölü havzaları, ve bu coğ-rafyayı sınırlayan kuzeyde Gavur Dağı’nın erozyonla aşınmış ve karst jeolojisi ile mağaralar ve düdenlerle zengin yaylaları ve son olarak güneyde ormanlık, yeşil ve sulak Boz Dağı’nın teraslanmış etekleri ve Beyşehir’e inen dar vadileri, Yalburt Projesi’ne son derece karmaşık bir yerleşim ekolojisi sunar. M.Ö. 13. yüzyılda, 4. Tudhaliya döneminde Karadağ sırtlarına inşa edilmiş olan Yalburt Yaylası Hiyeroglifli Kutsal Havuz Anıtı ile Kadınhanı yakınındaki Köylütolu Yayla Toprak Barajı aslında, yüzey araştırma ve jeomorfolojik-çevresel araştırmaların gösterdiği gibi imparatorluğun son döneminde gözlenen, Boğazköy’deki iktidarın eliyle yürütülmüş bir tarımsal kalkınma ve yeni yerleşim programının parçası olmalıdır. Ben Marsh öncülüğünde sürdürülen jeomorfolojik çalışmalar özellikle eskiçağ ile günümüz arasında temel kaynaklar, toprak kullanımı, ve su rejimleri bakımından ortaya çıkan benzerlik ve farklılaşmayı belgelemeyi amaçlamıştır. Havzalar, nehir vadileri, ovalar ve yaylalık yüksek alanlardaki jeomorfolojik değişimleri ayrıntılı olarak incelenirken, bu değişimlerin bugün karşılaştığımız iyi korunmuş ya da korunanmamış, tahrip edilmiş arkeolojik peyzajları nasıl etkilediği göz önüne alınır. Aşağıda da değinileceği gibi jeomorfolojik süreçler bazen siyasi iktidar eliyle yürütülen baraj yapımı, sulama projeleri gibi büyük çaplı müdahelelerle de şekillendirilmiştir. Bu süreçlere iki önemli örnek olarak, Hitit Kralı 4. Tudhaliya’nın Köylütolu Yayla mevkiinde inşa ettirdiği toprak dolgu baraj ve T.C. Devlet Su İşleri teşkilatının 1960’lardan 1990’lara kadar sürdürdüğü Ilgın ve Atlantı Ovalarını sulama pro-jeleri verilebilir.

Bu makalede öncelikle 2015 sezonunda yapılan çalışmaları öncelikle kısaca özetlenecektir. Makalenin ikinci kısmında ise Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver’in Ocak 2016’da tamamladığı “Hitit İmparatorluğu’nu Sınırboylarında Deneyimlemek” başlıklı doktora tezinin Yalburt Projesi kapsamındaki sonuçlarına değinilecektir.