Presenting Dr. Marica Cassis, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary
ABSTRACT
The site of Çadır Höyük is located on the Anatolian Plateau in Yozgat province, Turkey. It is a small site, representative of the kind of communities which stretched across central Anatolia during the medieval period. While these are largely unknown from the written sources, and ignored in relation to the history of empires and battles, it is these small sites that help us to understand continuity and change in small communities throughout the medieval world. By using Çadır Höyük as a window onto the evolution of a medieval communities in Anatolia (as opposed to representatives of empire), we gain a better sense of the lives and homes of the ordinary people who made up the majority of the region.