Anatolian geography is a strategic land that serves as a bridge between Asia, Europe and Africa. Due to this feature, it has been a way of passage for people since the Paleolithic Age, and has been a home since the Neolithic Age. Human beings experiencing the religion phenomenon starting from the Paleolithic Age have performed rituals with different practices. For this reason, Anatolia, where different cultures and different peoples unite, interact and new civilizations flourish, is defined as the cradle of civilizations. Due to its location, it contains traces of numerous religious facts and rituals in its past.
This book in your hand is the product of an endeavor to bring together studies focusing on religious facts and rituals that prove the contact established with Anatolian geography. Another objective of ours is to bring together the religion phenomena and ritual practices of the peoples, cultures and civilizations that lived in Anatolia from the beginning to the Roman times in terms of archeological and anthropological features, in a chronological chart.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGION AND RITUALS - Sefa KÖSE, Nilüfer PARLITI
PALEOLITHIC RITUAL ARTIFACTS AND ANATOLIAN EXAMPLES - Çağatay YÜCEL
AN EVALUATION OF THE OBELISK TRADITION FROM THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD IN LIGHT OF THE SCRIPTURES - Eyüp CANER
NOTES ON THE CULT OF SKULLS IN THE BURIAL TRADITION OF ANATOLIAN PREHISTORIC - Nazlı AKBAŞ, Umut PARLITI
HEARTH FINDS AT ÇIĞDEMTEPE MOUND - Erman AKYÜZ, Umut PARLITI
QUARRIES FROM 1: MILLENNIUM BC IN AND AROUND ŞANLIURFA - Bahattin ÇELİK
STELEA SANCTUARIES IN THE URARTIAN STATE: THE CASE OF KAYALIDERE - Sabahattin ERDOĞAN
ON THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SNAKE-DRAGON IN URARTIAN ART - Rıfat KUVANÇ
GREEK INFLUENCES & RELIGION AT AKALAN CITADEL: OBSERVATIONS OF THE HERAKLES' CENTAUROMACHY SCENE - Michael D. YILMAZ
THE ALTAR OF ZEUS LEPSYNOS AT EUROMOS: RESTITUTION AND DATING SUGGESTION - Taylan DOĞAN
A STELE WITH RIDER RELIEF FROM THE TERRITORIUM (AĞCİN) OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF THARSE (TURUŞ) - Murat TOSUN
