Burial traditions of the Ionian region in the 1st thousand

They are activities sanctioned by ritual-tradition. Each cultural element of the life of ancient societies such as the burial method, the form of the burial structure, the ritual activities during and after the burial, the rite-grave object and the position of the deceased sheds light on that society. Material elements that occur before, during and after the burial and which are necessary for the transfer of the deceased to the other world are the leading ones. The part of the funeral ceremony, which has become traditional for every society, and the archaeological cultural assets cannot be evaluated separately. In order to extract any information about the burial rites of the societies, it is necessary to analyze the burial as a whole with other archaeological elements in detail. West anatolia; It has important material evidence that can be evaluated within the burial customs as a source of information about the social and economic cultures of societies. This geography, which provides data in the field of burial customs from prehistoric times to the Roman period, also makes it possible to trace the development of societies. Ionian city-states have nearly three hundred necrological artifacts dated from the Archaic Period to the end of the Hellenistic period, in the light of the examples that have survived to the present day. In this context, it is the region with the most necrological artifacts in Western Anatolia. The available archaeological data of the region provide invaluable insight into both burial ritual and social ideologies. Keywords: Ionia, Burial Traditions, Inhumation, Cremation, First Millennium, Ionia City-States, Intramural Burial, Extramural Burial.