The production technique of "gold wash" wares from the Kaymakçi archaeological project

In the thesis, "The Production Technique of "Gold Wash" Wares from the Kaymakçı Archaeological Project", Scanning Electron Microscopy, Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and Portable-X-Ray analyzes were used to understand the production technique of gold wash ware unearthed at Kaymakçı by the Kaymakçı Archaeology Project. Additionally, research was conducted at Gökeyüp Village, where similar techniques of gold wash ware production is still used today. Apart from chemical and ethnographic studies, previous research on gold wash ware ceramics and terminological problems are discussed, as are the chronological ranges of its appearance throughout Anatolia and, finally, the timing of the spread of the ware across Anatolia. Two different mica types, Phlogopite and Muscovite, were identified on the samples recovered by the Kaymakçı Archaeology Project (KAP) as a result of chemical analyses. With this result, it is demonstrated that, not only a certain mica, but actually different micas were used in the production of Gold Wash Ware, and its shiny surface was obtained as a result of the environment of its baking. At the same time, by using information obtained from Gökeyüp Village, biotite mica Gold Wash Ware was replicated at kiln temperatures 700, 800, and 900ºC. Another result was that such ceramics first appeared in the Early Bronze Age II phase in Western Anatolia and only later in the 2nd millennium BC did they it has been taken an important place in Western Anatolia. Finally, it was determined that the type of gold-wash ceramics found in 2nd millennium BC was still used in the first phase of the Iron Age in Western Anatolia.