Abstract:

Our information about the early settled communities of the Volcanic Kapadokya Region, especially the Neolithic Age and the Calcolithic Age cultures, is created on the western basis of the region, in the framework of the data obtained from archaeological surface research and excavation studies carried out in the provinces of Niğde and Aksaray. But the data on the earliest settlements of Nevşehir province and Kayseri, which we can call Eastern Volcanic Kapadokya, which we can define as Central Volcanic Kapadokya, is based on the results of a small number of surface research. As a result of the need to evaluate the early prehistoric cultures of the Volcanic Kapadokya in an integrated perspective, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Fevzi Volkan Güngördü from the Faculty of Archaeology, the project "Nevşehir Neolithic Age Surface Studies" (NENESU), in 2019 began its research. The project aims to develop the very limited data available on the region’s earliest settled communities, thus to understand the early prehistoric cultural characteristics of the Central Volcanic Kapadokya, using modern surface research techniques. The landscapes of the landscape and Turkmenistan Hill, which were identified in the framework of the 2020 work, reveal important data on the earliest settled communities of the Central Volcanic Kapadokya in the Avanos district.

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