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Document Details : Title: Roman Ilıpınar and its Environment Author(s): ROODENBERG, Jacob , CLAASZ COOCKSON, Ben Journal: Anatolica Volume: 48 Date: 2022 Pages: 301-319 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.48.0.3291923 Abstract : Those who venture to visit the archaeological site of Ilıpınar will immediately come face to face with remains from the Roman period. These are masonry wall fragments scattered in and around the natural spring which constitutes the center of the artificial mound built up over the course of eight millennia. The site, which takes its name from the spring, has been the focus of an almost uninterrupted progression of people in search for pasture, arable land, and above all for continuously flowing water. Three volumes and a comprehensive number of articles written by a range of authors describe successive stages of settlement at the spring. The Roman period of Ilıpınar is the only subject left for discussion, because this subject was frankly the furthest from the original research task of the archaeologists, which was to investigate the prehistoric occupation. Hence, these remains received limited attention during the excavation seasons between 1987 and 2002 and why this contribution only appears two decades after the fieldwork was finished. This may be regrettable in retrospect, because Ilıpınar provides proof of Roman activity which seem to fit into a larger pattern. Be that as it may, with this account of the Roman remains the authors aim to complete the eight-thousand-year history of all those people whose lives depended on the perennial spring. |
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