Ahmet Cem Erkman

Ahi Evran Üniversitesi · Departman of Anthropology

2023-08-16-01 (01-6) kod no.lu proje kapsamında çalışma alanı olarak seçilen lokaliteler (Korçullu-Kızılırmak-Çankırı, Kemallı-Kızılırmak-Çankırı) Çankırı-Çorum Havzası’nda Kızılırmak Formasyonu içerisinde yer almakta olup Dünya’da ve Türkiye’de nadir bilinen Oligosen yaşlı omurgalı ve memeli paleofaunalarını içeren fosil yataklarını barındırmaktad...

2006-2016 yılları arasında yürütülen “ÇankırıÇorum Havzasındaki En Büyük Kara Memelisi Olan Baluchitherium’un ve Eşlik Eden Diğer Omurgalıların Bulgu Yerlerinin Araştırılması ve Bölgenin Paleocoğrafyası (Ankara, Kırıkkale, Çankırı, Çorum, Kırşehir)”, “Türkiye’deki Oligosen Yaşlı Omurgalı Fosil Yataklarının Araştırılması (Edirne, Kırklareli, Tekirda...

There is a little knowledge about lifestyle of people who have ever lived in Seyitömer Mound. Paleopathological evidences, which are health and lifestyle indicators, have enabled us to make inference about the lifestyles of past people. This chapter presents the results of the analysis of the skeletal remains which are 51 identified individuals who...

The mound site of Kale Höyük is located in the city center of Kırşehir, in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Excavated layers of the mound date to the Ottoman, Medieval, Hellenistic, and Late Iron Age periods. This paper examines the travertines unearthed from these layers, with the aim of identifying and interpreting their varying usages and...

The skeletons investigated herein were dated to the Late Eastern Roman Period, at the time of the golden age under the reign of the Macedonian dynasty ruled between 867 and 1056. In the Kütahya region, which acted as a border and frequently changed between the Eastern Roman and Seljuk states, the oral and dental health of the Attepe and Dereköy pop...

Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) provides insight of the stresses undergone by ancient communities from a bioarchaeological perspective. This is a first study aiming to determine stress factors causing LEH formation on the teeth of skeletons from two Anatolian rural communities during the Eastern Late Roman era (10th–11th centuries AD). These communi...

The purpose of the present study was to create a regression equation for measuring stature using measurements obtained from the long bone radiographs of adult individuals in Anatolian population. In this study, the maximum length measurements of the six long bones in the upper and lower limbs of 167 healthy individuals were determined from radiogra...

Heel spurs are the bony protrusion seen especially on the dorsal and plantar face of the calcaneus bone at the attachment site of the muscles. It was aimed herein to obtain data about the life styles, daily lives, and especially the socioeconomic structures of modern and ancient Anatolian populations by evaluating the prevalence, location, age, and...

BALCI, R. S.; ERKMAN, A. C.; GÖKER, P.; & BOZKIR, M. G. Morphometric analysis of calcaneal (heel) spurs in ancient and modern anatolian populations. Int. J. Morphol., 38(6):1729-1734, 2020. SUMMARY: Heel spurs are the bony protrusion seen especially on the dorsal and plantar face of the calcaneus bone at the attachment site of the muscles. It was a...

During rescue excavations in Kaman Ömerhacılı village, burials of two adults, six children, three fetuses and one infant in inhumation and dorsal style were encountered within a structure assessed as a chapel due to Late Roman architectural features. As there were no archeological findings showing the lifestyle or social status of individuals in th...

Doğu ve Geç Doğu Roma (Bizans)-İslami Dönem Çokköy insanlarının diş aşınma dereceleri genel anlamda tarımsal bir beslenme şeklinin ipuçlarını vermektedir. Diş taşlarının derecelerinin yanında periyodontal rahatsızlıklara ait oranların ise apse olgusu üzerinde oldukça etkili olduğu görülmüştür. Çokköy insanlarında periyodontitis’in oluşumundan yanlı...

Taxonomic information belonging to bovids obtained from 22 formations in Anatolia, 30 formations in Greece and 2 formations in Iran dated to Miocene period has been analyzed together with paleobiogeographic and paleoecological dynamics in this study. Eight different bovids (Gazella cf. capricornis, Gazella sp., Miotragoceros sp., Oioceros rothi, Pa...

Abstract: The footprints in this study, which were considered to have been made by ungulates, were discovered on mudstone that was approximately 5 cm thick, near an abundant mud-cracked plane located on the stratigraphic subsurface of the late Oligocene Karayün Formation, which crops out over wide areas in southern Sivas (Turkey) and has terrestria...

Özet Arkeolojik kazılardan elde edilen insana ait kalıntıların analiz edilmesi, daha önceki dönemlerde yaşamış olan toplumların sağlık yapısı ve yaşam biçimlerinin anlaşılması açısından en önemli materyali oluşturmaktadır. Kütahya, Domaniç, Çokköy kazısının nekropol alanından çıkarılan insan iskelet kalıntılarının paleoantropolojik açıdan değerlend...

Sıcak Çermik (Sivas) is an important geothermal and recent travertine formation area in Central Anatolia. The majority of travertines found in the region comprise fissure-ridge type travertines according to morphological classification. At the location called Tepe Çermik within the travertine area, fill containing fossil bone fragments of Equus sp....

Ouranopithecus turkae, from the late Miocene of Çorakyerler in Central Anatolia, is considered one of the last known occurrences of great ape in the eastern Mediterranean. The Çorakyerler fauna has previously been correlated with MN 11 to early MN 12 on the basis of biochronology, and its faunal composition has been found to contrast with those fro...

The excavations conducted at Van Castle Mound, East Anatolia, between 1987 and 2010 uncovered a total of 328 human skeletons dating back to the Medieval period. Thirty trauma cases were identified within the collection, constituting 9.14% of the entire population. Typology and distribution of the trauma among different sexes indicated that depressi...

The locality of Hayranlı-Sivas is situated in the central Anatolian plateau (Sivas, Turkey) and includes many fossil remains, including carnivores collected from 2 different spots. The aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge of carnivore evolution in Turkey based on the fossil specimens in Hayranlı-Sivas. The studied collection indicates th...

During the rescue excavations at Salat Tepe site in Diyarbakir , which is currently under the lake of IIisu dam region, 21 skeletons were unearthed; the paelopathological, paleodemographical, morphological and non-metrical aspects of the seskeletons were analyzed. The results of the archaeological and anthropological findings indicate that the inha...

In this study, 21 skeletons, obtained from rescue excavations conducted in Diyarbakır/Salat Tepe (Salat Hill) flooded by a lake formed by the Ilısu Dam, were examined in terms of paleopathology, paleodemography, morphology and non-metric features. The analysis of archaeological and anthropological findings reveal that the Salat Tepe people dated ba...

This study reports the first recorded discovery of three-rooted mandibular molars (3RM) from a Middle Age archaeological population unearthed in Van, Eastern Anatolia. A historical context is given for the research site, Dilkaya Mound, which has a history of approximately 2500 years. In total 462 permanent first and second teeth, 219 deciduous teet...

Although Anatolia includes a rich anthropological data source, studies based on nonmeasurable features are limited. Thus, this study, aiming to contribute to this field, compares 30 nonmetric features belonging to 47 skeletons from the Datça Peninsula, dated to the Roman period, with 19 nonmeasurable features on the skulls of individuals belonging...

The suid remains from localities 58-HAY-2 and 58-HAY-19 in the Late Miocene Derindere Member of the İncesu Formation in the Hayranli{dotless}-Haliminhani{dotless} area (Sivas, Turkey) are described and referred to as Microstonyx major (Gervais, 1848-1852). Microstonyx shows changes in incisor morphology, which are interpreted as a further adaptatio...

As teeth and surrounding tissues have a different biological structure and anatomy, there is no doubt that they are more reliable and available than other parts of a skeleton. Teeth are the easiest caries and wearing organisms although they are more resistant than other parts of the body. Pathological situations as dental caries, tooth wear, absces...

Abstract: Although there have been numerous studies concerning supernumerary mandibular molars in archaeological populations, there is no record of mandibular second permanent molars with four roots. In the present study we found a right mandibular second permanent molar with four roots from an individual belonging to the Dilkaya population, which...

It has been shown that under the pressure of natural selection, tooth size varies over time among societies. The study of metric size variation is a common method used by anthropologists to investigate the morphologic relationships in archaeological Anatolian societies. The size, shape, and structure of the tubercles of teeth is primarily determine...

Objectives: Today, many studies are conducted on disease and their treatment that occurs with aging. However, there are a very few studies on disease of ancient human population. The objectives of this study is to investigate ancient Anatolian human population lived between Neolithic and first half of 20th century and to reveal health problems seen...