Welcome to the Anatolia: Human-Envionment Dynamics (AHED) website!
On this website I present my research project AHED, which is part of the Tech4Culture programme of the University of Turin and funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research scheme.
AHED is an interdisciplinary investigation employing a comparative settlement pattern analysis for three specific regions in Anatolia. The Budaközü region (1), the Konya Plain (2), and the Upper Tigris Basin (3). From a landscape-oriented perspective a number of aspects are analysed, including settlement patterns, location factors, and human adaptation strategies. Topographical features as well as site-to-site and site-to-resource dynamics are mapped by using geographical information systems. The chronological scope of AHED spans from the Late Chalcolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age (ca 3000–1200 BCE).
The aim of this website is to make the corresponding geodata available as an open source for further processing and supplementation and to visualise them here with the help of leaflet-webmaps.