Göreme and Şahinefendi collects the results of surveys conducted by the Team for Underground Studies in Turkey in these two specific areas of Cappadocia, complemented by documentation produced in collaboration with Ukrainian, French and Turkish researchers. The object was the identification and documentation of underground architecture complementary to the best-known and most substantial Byzantine rock-cut churches. This research, conducted through speleological techniques and archaeometric survey, has allowed, in particular, the discovery of numerous defensive structures, previously completely unknown, and of related underground hydraulic systems. A completely new picture of the areas investigated emerges, in which the liturgical and funerary structures carved into the rocks represent only the tip of a ‘stone iceberg’, that is, the most evident and closest part to the surface of an underground world that has proved to be much more extensive and diverse than previously imagined.
H 276 x W 203 mm
876 pages
687 photos, 241 maps/illustrations
Published Sep 2023
Archaeopress Access Archaeology
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803275642
Digital: 9781803275659
Contents
1. Introduction
2. General Overview
3. Ancient and Recent Sources
Part One: Göreme and Environs
4. The Area of Göreme
5. Water Works at Göreme
6. Catchment Works in the Kiliçlar Vadisi
7. The Kayadibi Zone
8. The Underground Shelters of Göreme: St Eustachius and Vicinity
9. Shelters and Other Cavities along the Kiliçlar Vadisi
10. The Concentric Shelter of Kiliçlar Kilisesi Complex
11. The Amphitheatre Shelters of Göreme
12. The Peripheral Shelters of Göreme
13. The Kozanağa Zone
14. Zemi Vadisi
Part Two: The Şahinefendi Basin
15. Șahinefendi
16. Orta Tepe
17. Yarlağan Tepe
18. The Sites of the Eastern Sector of Şahinefendi
19. Düğen Tepe
Appendices
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