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the previous hypotheses about the region, but add much more detail. The
fieldwork showed that a distinct change took place in the area around Beyözü
in both quantity and type of material after the fifth century AD. Before
this, the settlement at Beyözü seems to have been little different from other
local villages, but the sixth century site seems to have been larger than its
contemporaries. When combined with the evidence for the origin of the
Anastasian inscription, the survey work proves the location of Euchaita at
Beyözü.
The intensive survey in the hinterland of Beyözü suggests that the
settlement patterns in antiquity were similar to those of the modern era, i.e.
nucleated settlements with intervening farmsteads. Agricultural production
patterns were probably also similar, i.e. dominated by cereals. No evidence
for olive production was found; local winters are now too harsh, and this
seems also to have been the case in antiquity.
The region now has a low population and it seems likely that the situation
in earlier periods was similar. Although it was not an isolated region, there
was only a very small quantity of fine ware material, much probably coming
via Black Sea ports such as Sinope or Amastris. There are a few distinctive
forms and wares, such as the two small, single-handled LR3 amphoraevariants
of the late sixth-seventh century. The finds include relatively few
sherds of glazed fine wares from the Byzantine, Medieval, and Post-Medieval
periods, but imported wares do occur, such as Glazed White Ware II from
Constantinople/İstanbul of the Byzantine period. The material culture in
the Avkat region between the sixth-seventh and twentieth centuries is thus
similar to the ceramic picture from other similar sites in Turkey. 12
12 Cassis, M., ‘Çadir Höyük: a rural settlement in Byzantine Anatolia’, in T. Vorderstrasse & J.
Roodenberg (eds.), Archaeology of the countryside in medieval Anatolia (Leiden, 2009), 1-24.
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