Aysun OZKOSE / Betül YILDIRIM
(Karabuk University,Karabuk,Turkey)
Outline: More so than technical abilities in presenting the site, the sustainability of urban archaeological sites is possible only through a planning process and a management plan that renders a correct conservation and use balance and enables the sites to be integrated with the city.
This paper will discuss the obstacles hindering the sustainability of urban archaeological heritage in Anatolia and present a proposal for a management plan to resolve these issues by a comparative analysis of archaeological values of Amasra, one of the important ancient harbour settlements in the western Black Sea Region of Anatolia.
Abstract: Anatolia has a distinctive importance due to its archaeological sites and buildings as part of its cultural heritage.
Although scientific excavations and research concerning archaeological values have been continuing for more than a century, conservation and valuation of this heritage is still not carried out properly.
The concern and consciousness for the sustainability and conservation of archaeological heritage in urban settlements, which are being destroyed and threatened by planning and development that lack conservation concern, is a very new concept. Unfortunately, the opinion that archaeological sites are obstacles against development is widespread.
Therefore, deficient and erroneous development and planning decisions harm archaeological values causing them to be destroyed while at the same time hindering future scientific research in these areas.
Urban land rent pressures, outdated planning codes, high expropriation costs or lack of an adequate budget of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism resulting in nonapplicable “exchange” etc options that are mentioned in the Conservation Law also make it difficult for archaeological heritage within urban fabric to be preserved, displayed and sustained.
More so than technical abilities in presenting the site, the sustainability of urban archaeological sites is possible only through a planning process and a management plan that renders a correct conservation and use balance and enables the sites to be integrated with the city.
This paper will discuss the obstacles hindering the sustainability of urban archaeological heritage in Anatolia and present a proposal for a management plan to resolve these issues by a comparative analysis of archaeological values of Amasra, one of the important ancient harbour settlement in the western Black Sea Region of Anatolia.
Keywords: Urban Archeology, Amastris, Amasra, Archaeological Heritage