Burial customs in the Eastern Anatolia in B.C. 2nd Millennium

Our post-graduate thesis, which we presented with the title ?Burial Customs in the Eastern Anatolia in B.C. 2nd Millennium", was based on B.C. 2nd Millennium and Early Iron Age. We studied the phenomenon of ?dead and burial? which was adopted by the people that lived in the Eastern Anatolia Region and the customs, traditions and culture that were related with this subject. The geographical characteristics of the region were examined and the answers to a lot of questions were sought out. The question of ?how and in what ways the community was influenced by the surrounding cultures? allowed us to form a perspective when studying the graves and graveyards.The excavation work and surface surveys that we performed within the scope of studies related to Eastern Anatolian Region helped us immensely and offered clear data. The research results of the region were determined with lit-erature and a study of libraries, and the related sections were included in our thesis. The belief of death, whose meaning has always been tried to be explained by humans since prehistoric times, has developed and survived to our times and didn?t show much difference over time. Among the notable differences were those rituals that were performed in line with religious beliefs. The type of grave, how the dead is put into the grave, the rewards that are available at the side or above of the grave which we call findings, are the actual data that we use to determine the sequence of the ceremony.By considering the types of graves and findings, it was analyzed whether Eastern Anatolia Region was influenced by other communities and we tried to explain the similarities. The existence of settlement was located in high plateaus and the graves located there might have a Trans-Caucasia interaction. The ar-chaeological data shows us that people maintained their faith on death in any time period they lived. They respected and sanctified this spiritual journey sometimes due to fear and sometimes due to their faiths. We have investigated the intense cultural interaction in the region, analyzed the graves and areas of graveyard in the area, and presented them in detail in our thesis.Keywords: Burial, Grave, Trans-Caucasia, Kurgan, Hocker, Karaz Culture.