Rise and Transition of a City State in Anatolia in the 3rd and the 2nd Millennium B.C.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25257013
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: The Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan
• Principal Investigator: OMURA MASAKO 公益財団法人中近東文化センター, アナトリア考古学研究所, 研究員 (80370196)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 大村 幸弘 公益財団法人中近東文化センター, アナトリア考古学研究所, 所長 (10260142) ; 松村 公仁 公益財団法人中近東文化センター, アナトリア考古学研究所, 研究員(移行) (60370194)
• Research Collaborator: Oomori Takayuki 東京大学, 総合研究博物館, 特別研究員 (30748900) ; FUKUDA Katsutoshi 京都大学, 産官学連携本部, 准教授 (80504331) ; KUMAGAI Kazuhiro 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 物質計測標準研究部門, 研究員 (20582042) ; FAIRBAIRN Andrew Stephen クイーンズ大学, 教授 ; ATICI Ahmet Levent ネヴァダ大学, 准教授 ; WEEDEN Mark ロンドン大学, PhD
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 考古学 / アナトリア / 前期青銅器時代 / 都市国家 / ヤッスホユック

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The excavation research and study at Yassihoyuk in the central Turkey has revealed shapes and patterns of a palace and functions or rolls of its consisting rooms in the 3rd millennium B.C. It is inferred the city having a palace as the heart in its center was active not only inside the city walls but also towards the outside areas. Also, both the architectural remains of the early 2nd millennium B.C. on the mound and the lower city in the north-western skirt of the mound which was found by the ground penetrating radar survey suggest that there was one of Anatolian cities which had trading relationships to each other as well as with Assyria and Syria. The city with this palace is a forerunner of the city of 2nd millennium B.C.

Free Research Field

考古学