KIZILIRMAK HAVZASI DEMİR ÇAĞI BOYA BEZEKLİ ÇANAK-ÇÖMLEK GELENEĞİNİN KÖKENİ ÜZERİNE DÜŞÜNCELER

Abstract

The recent archaeological excavations in Halys Basin proves that the instigation and development process of Central Anatolian Iron Age pottery that is erroneously called Phrygian should be reconsidered. Also there are new developments on the start up geography that were sought in the western and eastern cultures which requires a new definition. The contemporary archaeological evidence that can be found in Alisar IV group in Halys Basin points out the 9th century BC which is the begining of the Middle Iron Age. The painted ware that was uncovered in Bogazkoy-Buyukkaya Middle Iron Age stratum and the painted ware uncovered in Oluz Hoyuk’s 6th Architectural Layer that have decorations possibly predating Alisar IV makes E. Akurgal and V. Ozkaya’s out of region dynamics obsolete. It should be considered that the painted ware tradition that started in Oluz Hoyuk’s 7B Architectural Layer to continue even though with the changes in decoration program and a chronological gap to have been continued in 7A Architectural Layer. It can be observed that the painted ware tradition in Oluz Hoyuk’s 6th Architectural Layer had been a prototype of the Alisar IV and turned into a tradition. When this process evaluated with the developments in Bogazkoy-Buyukkaya, it proves that the Amasya-Corum Region is the region that Halys Basin Iron Age painted ware and Alisar IV tradition has started.