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Öğe Extraordinary burials with turtles : symbolic role of turtles ongoing thousands of years(IJOPEC Publication Limited, 2019-05) Kozbe, GülrizBurials are the most common archaeological contexts, which were discovered as untouched and nondisturbed at the excavations. For this reason, burials provide detailed information about the burial customs, burial rituals, and most importantly belief systems of ancient human societies. Therefore, the examination of the graves gives us to some extent important data about their living and experiences. From this point of view, our inception is a burial pit uncovered at the site of Kavuşan Höyük in Diyarbakır, in the south-eastern Turkey with a minimum of 21 turtles, tortoises and terrapins together with two human skeletons dating to the 6th century BC; some burials including turtles dated to c. 10,000 BC at Körtik Tepe again in the same region and as well as other turtle burials belonging to different periods in world show that the turtles and/or tortoises have a symbolic role ongoing thousands years in terms of rituals and beliefs. In addition to being an animal used for nutrition and therapeutic purposes, sinceit is perceived as an animal that brings luck, keep away from evil and most importantly represents a long life, turtle occurs as a symbol that accompanies not only in the burials during the journey to Underworld but also during the daily life. However, we all well know that turtle shells are hanged on the walls of many houses, especially the door entrances in order to expel the evil spirit in Anatolia. The fact in hanging turtle shells is to protect “the hanging thing” or prevent them from being killed by setting up a symbolic meaning between death and the turtle shell. This is in fact a continuation of beliefs that the vital essence of life is gathered in bones and hoped that turtles will protect against sudden deaths, misfortunes or weaknesses of life. Initially sanctioned, which lasts for generations at least 12 thousand years that is known substantially by archaeological data; a practice in different regions and in different periods almost without any changes, without ever being asked “why” and perhaps without making any sense at all for new generations can be performed while today it may continue only as a “current debate” topic.
