Ali Akin Akyol
Archaeometry, Analysis & Characterisation of Historical Materials
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Address: Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, Golbasi Campus, Faculty of Fine Arts, Blok D, TR-06830, Golbasi, Ankara-TURKEY
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Address: Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, Golbasi Campus, Faculty of Fine Arts, Blok D, TR-06830, Golbasi, Ankara-TURKEY
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Due to Aşağı Kaleköy Dam Project, the salvage excavations were carried out in Murat Höyük in 2019. Taxonomic identifcation of the wood charcoal samples dating to the Early Bronze Age and their interpretation based on vegetation history was the subject of the study. Reflected light microscopy showed that all of the wood charcoal samples belong to the Quercus L. (oak) genus, section Quercus (White Oak Group) from the Fagaceae family. The wood charcoal samples have the following wood anatomical traits: growth ring boundaries distinct, wood ring-porous, the transition from earlywood to latewood abrupt, vessels of latewood in a radial to the dendritic pattern, uniseriate and multiseriate rays, multiseriate rays very large, ray height > 1mm. It can be assumed that the woods belonging to the White Oak Group, which were understood to be used both as a building material and as fuel, were obtained from timber or frewood trees in the oak forests in the relatively close vicinity of the Murat Höyük settlement at that time. In the Solhan region where Murat Höyük is located, coppice oak forests constitute the current woody vegetation type today.
Keywords: White Oak Group, Early Bronze Age, Eastern Anatolia, Wood Charcoal
This preliminary study is based on Daskyleion, which is known to be one of the four Persian Satrapies had established in Anatolia as frequently mentioned in ancient sources. The study includes the some metal samples (iron, bronze and lead) taken from Eşenköy, Koru and Tepecik tumuli and Rock-cut Tomb II (Kaya Mezarı II), which were excavated during the third term excavations in the eastern and southern necropolis areas of Daskyleion.
history. Despite time-dependent degradation in archaeological woods, its
many anatomical properties can remain unaffected. At the centre of
Anatolia, one of the classical historical bridge, Devrez bridge (so-called
Kurşunlu, Mamo, Korgun) is a historic structure built to span Devrez river.
The study aims to anatomically identify a wood sample taken from a beam in the spandrel wall of the bridge. Based on light microscopy of the thin wood sections, the secondary xylem of the wood sample indicates that it belongs to the white oak group (section Quercus) in the genus Quercus of the Fagaceae family.
Keywords: historical bridge, Kurşunlu, white oak, wood anatomy