CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AT CHALCOLITHIC GÜLPINAR

Year 2024, Volume: 1 Issue: 32, 17 - 32, 30.04.2024

Erkan Gürçal Turan Takaoğlu

https://doi.org/10.51493/egearkeoloji.1424806

Abstract

Archaeological excavations conducted at the late 6th and 5th millennia BC site of Gülpınar in coastal
northwestern Anatolia present an opportunity to examine the patterns of continuity and change in the social structure and the spatial use of the settlement. The excavated data from Gülpınar’s Early Chalcolithic (Phase II) and Middle Chalcolithic (Phase III) occupations reveal that settlement organization and architecture continued in a similar manner until the mid-5th millennium BC. This behavioral pattern, which continued for about 800 years, often using old foundations, must also be an important reflection of the inhabitants’ preservation of the social structure based on spatial references. However, by around 4500 BC, there had been significant changes in settlement organization, architecture, and spatial use. From this point on, the excavation data suggest a socio- spatial change in community structure.

Keywords

Kalkolitik Dönem, Gülpınar, sosyal yapı, sosyal hafıza

Kalkolitik Gülpınar Sosyal Yapısında Süreklilik ve Değişim

Abstract

Kuzeybatı Anadolu kıyılarında yer alan Gülpınar'ın MÖ 6. binyıl sonu ve 5. binyıl yerleşmesinde yürütülen arkeolojik kazılar, yerleşmenin kullanımı boyunca sosyal yapı ve mekânsal kullanımındaki süreklilik ve değişimin incelenmesi için bir fırsat sunmaktadır. Bu makale, Erken Kalkolitik Gülpınar (evre II) ve Orta Kalkolitik Gülpınar (evre III) yerleşimleri mimari kalıntılarının incelenmesi yoluyla şu üç soruya yanıt bulmaya çalışmaktadır: Yerleşimin sakinleri toplumsal hafızayı yerleşimlerini nasıl ve hangi pratiklerle yansıtmışlardır? Bu sembolik pratikler yerleşimin kullanımı boyunca nasıl bir seyir izlemiştir? ve bu yerleşimde yaşayan topluluklar bu pratikler aracılığıyla toplumsal yapılarının sürekliliğini nasıl sağlamışlardır? Gülpınar’ın Erken ve Orta Kalkolitik dönem kültür katmanlarında bazı pratiklerin sürekli tekrar edilmesi, yerleşimde yaşayanların yaklaşık bin yıllık zaman diliminin büyük bölümünde sosyal yapılarını koruduklarını göstermektedir.

Keywords

Kalkolitik Dönem, Gülpınar, Sosyal Yapı, Sosyal Hafıza

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