This study investigates the relationship between the ancient settlements in west
Anatolia and physical, environmental parameters including topography, rock and
morphological classes. Modern settlements are also included in the study to
analyze if the response has changed to these parameters from past to the present.
The databases created in the study include three topographic attributes (elevation,
slope and aspect), rock type, ancient settlements and modern settlements. Analyses
performed in the study involve distance and density analyses, morphological
analysis / distribution within the rock types both for ancient and modern
settlements.
The results of the study demonstrated that 1) the active faults produced attractive
topography to settle, 2) people preferred the vicinity of the fault line as settlement
location, and 3) they were not aware of the earthquake potential of their location.
Therefore, because of the advantage of the location they did not consider to change
the place as indicated by rebuilding their settlement repeatedly at the same place
after it is damaged.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614292/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 May 2012 |
| Creators | Tokmak, Musa |
| Contributors | Toprak, Vedat |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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