Turkic Archaeology Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Son yıllarda Türkiye kamuoyunda gündeme gelen Şiveet Ulaan Mezar-Kült Kompleksi hakkında Türkçede kapsamlı bir çalışma henüz bulunmamaktadır. İslam Öncesi Türk sanatı ve arkeolojisine yönelik yeni çalışmalara başlangıç düzeyinde katkı yapabilecek olan tanıtımını yapacağımız çalışma bu anlamda dikkati çekmektedir. Eski Türklerin Şiveet Ulaan Mezar-Kült Kompleksi başlıklı kitap, Kazakistan Cumhuriyeti Eğitim ve Bilim Bakanlığına bağlı faaliyet gösteren A. Margulan Adındaki Arkeoloji Enstitüsü’nün Astana şubesinin bir yayını olarak 2016 yılında
Astana’da basılmıştır. Kazak ve Moğol bilim adamlarının ortak çalışması olan bu eser İslamiyet öncesi Türk sanatı ve arkeolojisi açısından önemli bir yere sahip olduğu düşünülen Şiveet Ulaan Mezar-Kült kompleksinin bilim dünyasına tanıtılması amacıyla yazılmıştır. Şiveet Ulaan, Moğolistan’ın Arhangay Bölgesi sınırları içinde ve Hanuy ırmağının sağında aynı adı taşıyan bir dağın üzerinde yer almaktadır. Köktürk dönemine ait olan mezar-kült kompleksi dönemin hanedan üyeleri ve üst düzey devlet görevlileri adına inşa edilmiş olmalıdır.
Kitap, 271 sayfalık beş dilli bir çalışmadır. Rusça, Kazakça, İngilizce, Moğolca ve Türkçe dillerinde yayınlanarak daha geniş araştırmacı kitlesinin eserden yararlanabilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Kitap, ilk önce Rusça Bölüm (s. 16-73) ile başlamakta, daha sonra sırasıyla Kazakça Bölüm (s. 76-127), İngilizce Bölüm (s. 130-177), Moğolca Bölüm (s. 180-223) ve Türkçe Bölümü (s. 226-267) içermektedir.

The article contains the publication of materials from the excavations of the Turkic «memorial» objects of the Ust-Karasu site. These structures, located in Central Altai, were investigated by the Altai party of the South Siberian archaeological expedition under the leadership of A.S. Vasyutin in 1983, but so far have not been fully introduced into scientific circulation. A detailed description and a cultural and chronological interpretation of the three structures studied are presented – object №1 and enclosures A-1–2. There are signs indicating the possibility of attributing the excavated complexes to the Early Türkic time – miniature stone boxes, northern orientation of out-of- enclosures objects, structures in the form of a multi-plate box, as well as ground construction in the form of a kurgan embankment. Chronology of buildings in the second half of the V – VI centuries AD confirm the characteristics of the detected items, especially iron stirrups. Memorial objects of the Ust-Karasu complex reflect the early stratum of the Turkic traditions, demonstrating the characteristics of their culture before the creation of the First Kaganate and, possibly, in the first decades after the creation of the empire.
Key words: «memorial» objects, Altai, Turks, early Middle Ages, archaeological complex, stirrups, chronology

- by Nikolai Seregin
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- Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Old Turkic, Turkic Archaeology

Mobility is often cited as the essence of life in the Eurasian steppe, and with it mobile dwellings and households. Steppe nomads offer ethnographically potent visions of inhabited space into which archaeological landscapes fit comfortably. Challenges include the discovery of early household sites, the characterization of households that lack structures, and how to examine the dynamics of mobile pastoralist households without being drawn into an agglomerative model that builds toward optimal practices. This paper will marshal the archaeological evidence for domestic spaces in mobile steppe households. A flexible and extensible model of household spaces will be offered that links activities and resources into a network of contextual relationships at the household scale. This provides a model for analogical use of ethnographic data, frameworks into which the archaeological fragments of mobile households can be fitted, and above all a means of comparative characterization between periods of inhabitation in the world’s steppes.

- by Semih Güneri
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- Eurasia, Turkic Archaeology, Altai, Dokuz Eylul University

The Turkic site at Little Khonakhai( Xiao Hongnahai 小洪那海) was discovered in the early 1950s. In 1953, the Yili Archeological Team headed by Wu Bolun 武伯倫 discovered a Turkic stone figure with an inscription at the place called little Khonakhai in the Tekes River valley, Zhaosu county, Xinjiang province. The local nomads called it the "Khonakhai Stone Figure. A total of three such Turkic stone figures have been found on the Zhaosu steppes. The discovery of the Turkic Relics in the Tekes Vally, the first survey and second survey and the date of the Sogdian inscription from Little Khonakhai are discussed in this article.

- by LIN Meicun
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- Sogdian, Turkic Linguistics, Turkic Archaeology, Turkic Studies
- by Boris A Zheleznyakov and +1
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- Rock Art (Archaeology), Bronze Age (Archaeology), Archaeology of Central Asia, History of Kazakhstan
- by Luc Hermann and +2
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- Rock Art (Archaeology), Archaeology of Central Asia, Iron Age (Archaeology), Turkic Archaeology

The article presents the publication of materials from the excavations of the Turkic enclosures at the complexes Bolshoi Kurmanak-I and II, investigated by the Altai detachment of the South Siberian archaeological expedition of Kemerovo State University under the leadership of A.S. Vasyutin in 1982. To date, only a few finds from these objects have been published, which does not allow for the full use of the materials obtained. On the basis of the information presented in the reporting documentation about result of the excavations, authors of the article carry out the general description of the complexes and present a detailed description of the studied early medieval fences. An analysis of the recorded characteristics made it possible to conclude that the excavated objects of the complexes Bolshoi Kurmanak-I and II demonstrate the tradition of construction of Turkic enclosures, widespread in large areas of the Central Asian region in the second half of I millennium AD. The revealed features of the studied structures, as well as the few items found, give grounds for the dating of enclosures in the broad framework of the second half of the V – first half of VIII centuries AD.
Keywords: Turks, early Middle Ages, enclosures, archeological complex, Altai, chronology

- by Nikolai Seregin
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- Archaeology, Eurasian Nomads, Early Medieval Archaeology, Old Turkic