Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Türkiye Dünya Mirası Konvansiyonu’nu imzaladığı 1983 yılından beri doğal ve kültürel özellikteki dokuz alan UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesinde yer almaktadır. Bunlardan yedi miras alanı kültürel özellikte iken iki tanesi ise doğal+kültürel özellikte (mix type)dir. Hemen bütün gelişmekte olan ülkelerde olduğu gibi Türkiye’…

• TURGUT YİĞİT

The cultural heritage of Honduras offers a critical platform for United States heritage diplomacy under the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Cultural Heritage Center. Of specific note is the formal 2004 Honduran–American Memorandum of Understanding for the preservation of…

• CHRISTINA MARIE LUKE ROOSEVELT

At the 38th World Heritage Committee meeting which was held in Doha, Qatar in 2014, Bursa Historical Bazaar and Khans District, along with the Sultan Complexes (Kulliyes) and Cumalikizik in Turkey, were inscribed as a World Heritage Site. As a requirement of UNESCO, before the application to the World Heritage Committ…

• TÜLİN VURAL ARSLAN

Recently, there are various threats encountering the cultural heritage worldwide. Indeed, these threats make conservation and management of cultural heritage a complex process to deal with. Since the 1970s, the UNESCO started to issue many guidelines and charters related to the management and conservation of the cultu…

• YILDIRIM YILMAZ

Somut kültürel miras grubu içinde yer alan arşivler, oluşturuldukları, ait ve ilişkili oldukları toplumlar hakkında -gizemli- tarihi kaynaklara sahip olan kurumlardır. Bu kurumlar; kültürel, bilimsel, teknik, diplomatik, sosyolojik, politik, idari, ticari, askeri, vb. konularda tarihi merakı karşılar. Kısa süreli ziya…

• CEYHAN GÜLER
• İSHAK KESKİN

The concept of sustainability has become one of the most popular topics of tourism studies.Sustainable tourism emerged as a strong stream of tourism research based on the stance that tourism industry has responsibility for degradation of natural and cultural environments.Additionally, tourism industry consumes local r…

• ZAFER ÖTER

With the widespread adoption of technology in the daily lives of modern humans, trends in cultural and heritage tourism have become erratic and entrenched in newer technology-based innovations. Archaeotourism (AT) is the most significant component of cultural and heritage tourism. This chapter considers digital transf…

This article aims to explore the role of heritage impact assessment (HIA) as a tool to safeguard world heritage sites from the adverse impacts of proposed projects as well as to recommend effective mitigation measures to create the balance between preservation and development. These mitigations will help the decision…

• YILDIRIM YILMAZ

The material plays a fundamental and active role in the social lives of people, from objects like containers or buildings to food and other consumables. In this paper, evidence from absorbed residues are used to explore the contents of an Ulúa-style marble vase found in a royal courtyard at the ancient Maya site of Pa…

Aizanoi, Kütahya İli’nin 48 km güneybatısında yer alan Çavdarhisar ilçesi sınırlarında konumlanmaktadır. Günümüzde antik ve kırsal dokunun birlikte olması, kültürel miras ögeleri ile Unesco Dünya Kültürel Mirası Geçici Listesi’nde yer alması ile özel bir yere sahiptir. Tüm bu özellikleri ile Kütahya’nın önemli turizm…

• ELİF ÖZER

With the new technologies, public archaeology events have been changed and rapidly diversified. Moreover, archaeologists are becoming aware that collaborating with local communities in museum exhibitions, excava-tion and research projects, has benefits for archaeological processes. This study shows that rapidly evolvi…

• EVREN SERTALP

Tarsus historic city center is a continuous settlement from the Neolithic Age to the present day. Archaeological heritage is integrated with traditional historic quarters, historic city center, Early Republican buildings and industrial heritage. Social practices, cultural production processes, legends and religious ev…

• ÜMİT AYDINOĞLU