Dombalaktepe is a mound located in the Kamaz Valley, just east of the Ondokuz Mayıs University Kurupelit Campus in the Atakum District of Samsun Province. With the permission of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the support of Ondokuz Mayıs University, the excavation of the mound was carried out in 2021 by It started with the scientific consultancy of Asc. Prof. Dr. Atila Türker. The fact that the prehistoric and prehistoric results were obtained according to the preliminary results at Dombalaktepe showed that the long-occupied mound has the potential to yield versatile results. The purpose of the excavations is to bring a new stratigraphy to Anatolian archeology in the Black Sea Region in the light of scientific research, to conduct inter-institutional and interdisciplinary studies, and to carry out applied education in which the students of Ondokuz Mayıs University Archeology Department take an active role.
n this sense, increasing and diversifying the number of public collaborations through archaeological excavations and researches in Dombalaktepe, reconsidering Black Sea archeology in a temporal dimension, updating the chronology of Black Sea archeology with new data, archeological data obtained as a result of excavations, interdisciplinary working groups, including archaeometric analysis, and various branches of science. methods, to provide field training to undergraduate and graduate students, especially at Ondokuz Mayıs University, to provide them with experience and professional knowledge, to introduce scientific research methods through scientific publication of the findings and to conduct social archeology studies by exhibiting the finds in the museum, to make the special position of the mound in the valley tourism It is aimed to create recreation and destination areas by evaluating its potential. In line with these purposes, undergraduate and graduate students of Ondokuz Mayıs University Archeology Department took responsibility as team members in the field and workshop studies carried out in the mound in 2021.
Necessary interviews were held in order to carry out various archaeometric analyzes on the archaeological remains obtained in cooperation with KİTAM. The preliminary observations obtained draw attention to the importance of dealing with the archeology of the Black Sea Region with new approaches and methods, and also reveal that the Dombalaktepe settlement contains up-to-date data on the lifestyle of the prehistoric communities living in the region.
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