DOĞU KAPADOKYA BÖLGESİ YÜZEY ARAŞTIRMALARINDA DERLENEN SERAMİKLER

Abstract

This article includes our survey of the surface materials gathered from mounds and' old settlements within the regional boundries of Kayseri, Sivas and Maras provinces. Firstly, the mounds on the road between Kayseri and Pinarbasi were visited. Our observations of the sherds collected here, showed these settlements to be inhabited during the Early Bronze, Second Millennium B.C. and the Greek-Roman Periods. During our surveys in the plains of Uzunyayla, remains of castles belonging to the Greek-Roman Period were encountered and surface sherds collected, within the vicinity of the ''Karakuyu Hittite Dam. No settlements with Hittite pottery remains were detemined within the near surroundings. During our surveys, reaching from north of Karakuyu Dam in Uzunyayla to the vicinity of Sarkisla, we visited and collected some sherds from 8 mounds and old settlements. These sherds belong to the third, second, first millennium B.C. and the Classical Periods. In some of these mounds, pottery characteristics of the Hittite and Phrygian Period were encountered. Prehistoric pottery collected from mounds determined within the regional boundries of the provinces of Maras, presented cultural relations with both Central Anatolia and Amuq Plains.