3 books
Şevket Dönmez is a Turkish archaeologist whose work focuses on the Iron Age, Achaemenid presence, and long-term settlement history of North-Central Anatolia. He has led research at Oluz Höyük near Amasya and published excavation reports, pottery studies, and assessments of the region's archaeological heritage. Amasya: Maid of the Mountains is not a single-author excavation monograph. It is an illustrated, multi-contributor portrait of the city; Dönmez contributes an archaeological perspective connecting monuments, topography, belief traditions, and material remains. His chapter places the Ferhat and Şirin story alongside the landscape where local memory has attached it, while distinguishing cultural tradition from excavated evidence. Readers should therefore treat the volume as a cultural-heritage synthesis rather than a definitive chronology of every period.
