FİLOLOJİK-ARKEOLOJİK VERİLER IŞIĞINDA HİTİT DÖNEMİ SU BENTLERİ VE HAVUZ YAPILARI
HITTITE PERIOD DAMS AND WATERSHEDS WITH THE LIGHT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL DATA

Summary/Abstract: Water! Ever since the birth of the human being, it has always kept it’s importance. More importantly, the human being understood the water as the cause of its creation and extinction, and as a result rebelled against nature. This rebellion brought man's instinct to dominate nature. What was the effects of human instinct which ruling over the water on nature, and how did this instinct play an active role in the severe droughts? What kind of precautions did people took against these droughts? These questions led us to the water structures in Anatolia which belongs to second thousand B.C. The dam structures, which are archaic type of today's dams, have emerged. The architectural structure and construction of these dams we examined in Çorum, Sivas, Kayseri, Amasya and Konya, where the Hittites spread, enabled us to learn about the Hittite engineering.

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