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of Yazır Höyük, Demirci Höyük IV and some pottery from Hanaytepe, Beşiktepe and
Kumtepe (Yakar, 1979: 54). A possible connection between the metallurgy of
Anatolia and Caucasia has long been a subject of study. Orthmann and Mansfeld took
notice of the similarities between the zoomorphic artifacts from the Alaca Höyük
“royal tombs” and those from the Kurgan burials in Georgia, Armenia and Dagestan,
yet the chronology of the Caucasian region is not secure or well linked to the
Anatolian evidence to make secure suggestions currently (Zimmermann, 2006: 66).
4.4 Synthesis
The key Central Anatolian sites, presented above, show a unified culture which
shares common cultural practices. There are, without a doubt, local “tastes” and local
“ways of doing things.” There are no independent cultures or periods in any of the
sites in Central Anatolia (Özgüç, 1964: 2). In addition, wide reaching trade contacts of
Central Anatolia played an important part in the cultural development of the region,
not migrations (Özgüç, 1964: 6).
The realization that the land of “Hatti” had what we can consider a more or
less a “unified” culture was foreseen by the early excavators of the region such as Raci
Temizer who had stated that “rich tombs like those of Alaca Höyük which are found in
the northern area in the transition from the steppes to forest, also will be possibly
found in the region of Çorum-Amasya-Tokat” (Özgüç-Akok, 1957: 219). Although we
might say that the metallurgical and artistic skills are not on par with the richness of
the Alaca Höyük royal tombs, the burials at Horoztepe, Kalınkaya/Topraştepe,
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