The Early Bronze Age in the Middle Porsuk Basin: A Multiple Evaluation on the Potential Effects of Wetland Landscape on Demircihoyuk

The analysis of increasing settlement systems in recent years have brought an important perspective to archaeology in the evaluation of prehistoric settlements with their environments. In fact the geography and archaeology disciplines' both theoretical and methodological interaction, ensures a strong establishment of relationship between social and physical sciences. While geography reflects the diversity of the earth, its resources and the efforts of human beings to survive, on the other hand archaeolgy reflects the surviving human in all aspects. In this context, this paper primarily aims to refer to Eskisehir Middle Porsuk Basin and other similar regional studies, while focusing on how and to what extent the landscapes and climate models contribute to the archaelogical knowledge.There is also historical and ethnoarchaeological information supporting paleoclimate studies that climatic and environmental conditions may have been effective in the concentration of EBA settlements on the hillsides, ridges and hills in the Middle Porsuk Basin. For this reason, Demircihoyuk will be tried to be examined in the context of the reflection of environmental adaptation practices on architecture, including floods, together with the results of archaeobotanical and archaeozoological studies. Finally, thanks to the similar results from Kulluoba, it is aimed to develop a well-rounded interpretation of the region's EBA.