Open AccessArchaeological fakes and forgeries in Turkey
Author(s) -
Ergün Laflı,
Maurizio Buora
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista do museu de arqueologia e etnologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2448-1750
pISSN - 0103-9709
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2021.173939
Subject(s) - turkish , history , point (geometry) , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
In this paper we present discussions on archaeological authenticity in Turkey, advanced both from scholarly as well as popular scientific point of views. In Turkey in the last five years a recent public debate has become on previously inconspicuous "archaeological fakes". The problem was previously known, but not permanently entered in scientific research. It will probably still be a long way to go until Turkish archaeologists to deal with this matter in scientific terms with it and accept it as an important study area. Although Turkey is a key country for both originals, as well as for forgery production, we known little about which materials should be categorized as replicas or fakes, which objects were classified, what materials were faked, why and by whom.