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The nature in Turkey is a humanized landscape inseparable from its culture.Nevertheless,to the outsider,nature in many parts of Turkey gives a new meaning to wilderness,because even in the most inaccessible or isolated parts(such as the high mountain tops or the secret places in the valleys)the visitor remains with the feeling that sometime in history this place,now wild and untended,was the home to a civilizations with settledvillages and city life for nine thousand years. These were people of different origin,coming in waves,mingling with those already there,each time creating a new synthesis.Between 2000 B.C to 1500 A.D,this landscape was the center of world civilization.Interpretation of the world scene today is predicated upon our understanding of what took place on this landscape for the last four millennia,manifested in the ruins and monuments which decorate the landscape. Up until theadvent of modernity(which in Turkey is associated with the comprehensive highway program of the 1950's)the landscape has remained as it was through millennia.When you see a replica of one of the first agrarian villages in the world dating back to almost 7000 B.c years ago in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara,you cannot miss the similarity between this prototype and all those others that you passed by on the way to the museum.As i |
