@article{2017,title={THE EVALUATION OF THE POTTERY COLLECTED FROM THE BRONZE AND IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN ANCIENT GERMIA AND VICINITY SITUATED IN THE EAST OF PHRYGIA},abstractNode={During the surface surveys carried out under the guidance of P. Niewöhner around ancient Germia (modern Gümüşkonak) situated in the eastern part of Eskişehir, prehistoric settlements were also examined. In this context, in addition to the mounds that yielded material from the 3rd and 2nd Millennium B.C. an Iron Age hilltop settlement has been discovered. During the 3rd Millennium BC, the pottery of the region reflects the characteristics of “Polatlı Group” which forms a buffer zone between western and central Anatolian cultures. It spreads from the Sivrihisar mountain range in the west, as far as the Haymana Plateau in the east in the EBA. Phrygian Cultural Region which established a cultural integrity at the end of the 3rd Millennium BC with Central Anatolia maintains this position also during the 2nd Millenimum BC. The pottery of the 2nd Millennium BC displays the characteristics of the Hittite pottery since the area became culturally integral part of the Hittite nucleus area. It is understood that the mounds were most probobly abandoned in the region at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the people was settled more in hilltop settlements from the Early Iron Age on. Despite the change in settlement patterns, the development of the pottery seems to suggest that there there was no break in the cultural development during the transition from the Late Bronze into the Early Iron Age.},author={Deniz SARI},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}