Anadolu

Yazarlar: Özlem TÜTÜNCÜLER

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Anatolia ,Early Bronze Age ,Resuloglu ,Pithos ,Metal ,Fabric

Özet: Within the Resuloğlu Early Bronze Age (last quarter of the 3rd Millennium BC) extramural cemetery located to the north west of Resuloğlu Village of Uğurludağ Town of Çorum Province, fabric pieces have been determined on various metal burial gifts of the pithoi and stone-cist graves, discovered during 2004 and 2005 excavation seasons. The oldest samples of fabrics used in Anatolia have been discovered in excavations of Çayönü, Çatalhöyük, Kuruçay and Alişar and those samples, which have been dated back to Early Bronze Age, have been known from the excavations in İkiztepe, Tekeköy, Alaca Höyük and Oymaağaç. Samples discovered in the Resuloğlu Cemetery, make new contributions to our knowledge on fabric use in this age. It’s a wellknown fact that the most important data of the fabrics of later periods have been documented during Acemhöyük excavations for Asyrian Trade Colonies Period and during Ortaköy excavations for Hittite Period. These fabric pieces belonging to various locations and periods have been discovered in the fused form of slagged or “pseudomorf” in the places where a fire took place over bone tools, skeletons and especially over the metal artifacts which had been placed as burial gifts in the graves. Residues and traces of fabrics over the metal burial gifts found in Resuloğlu, make contributions to discovering technique of weaving and use of the woven fabric of the last quarter of Early Bronze Age. Analyses have been made on a small detached piece by using new techniques. It was determined that the fabric had been woven of linen threads and dyed. Weaving technique of the fabric found on the piece, indicates that fibers spun with spindle-whorls old style spindles, have been woven into plain fabric “cloth” over warp-weighted looms. These types of fabrics used for daily activities have been determined to have been used also in wrapping the metal weapons presented as burial gifts in the graves

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