In excavations in Uşaklı Höyük in Büyük Taşlık village of Yozgat district, culinary culture and agricultural products for ancient times are being investigated.
In Uşaklı's excavations, the architectural structures of ancient times were investigated on food culture and agricultural products. Uşaklık, began surveys in 2008 in 2008 and excavations in 2012, containing the oldest mosaic picture in the world including 3 thousand 147 stones.
The excavation team monitors the culinary culture of Hittites by investigating the seeds grown in ancient times as well as the historical findings in the mound.
Italian university students and the Head of the Export Division Assoc. Dr. Anacleto d'Aggostino, Uşaklı Höyük said that the 18th excavation season continues.
D'Ggostino pointed out that the historic area was an important past settlement area that lasted up to 3 thousand BC and said, “There is a continuous settlement here until the Roman and Roman period late. Therefore, it is important that we have to monitor each other.
D'Ggostino explained that the DNA analysis of the ruins found in tombs in excavations, “the way people live in the past, climatic conditions or environment changes over time, how they adapt to them, what they have eaten, they have eaten, how they change agricultural products, we can see them,” he said.
College London University lecturer and Vice President excavated. Yağmur Heffron said they had worked 60 days in the excavation area. Heffron said that burnt particles found in excavations were tried to be determined by domestic floating techniques, saying: “With this technique, the organic matter in the soil can often be burned or residual plant residues.
“Powder works have an important position in hittite cuisine”
The ceramic research center of the Anatolian Civilization Center of Koç, Valentina Orsi, as well as changes in the settlements, everyday life of everyone, eating habits, cooking menstruation, he said. ORSI explained what was developed in the region and how to get agriculture, ORSI said: “As we know from written hittite texts, bread and cakes in hittite cuisine holding a very important place.
