{"id":28023,"date":"2012-11-15T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=28023"},"modified":"2012-11-15T18:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:19:04","slug":"excavation-anatolia-is-it-home-to-the-earliest-guitars-28023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/excavation-anatolia-is-it-home-to-the-earliest-guitars-28023\/","title":{"rendered":"Excavation in Anatolia reveals : Is it home to the earliest guitars ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration on a found rock during excavation in Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck site resembles a guitar, but why on earth this chubby Turkish girl can touch the reliefs is beyond us ! Sloppy preservation work by the officials !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The birthplace of the guitar is generally thought to be Spain, but a relief of a human figure playing a guitar, found during Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck excavations these year, hints that its history may date back to the Hittite period in Anatolia.<\/h1>\n

\u00c7ORUM \/ NationalTurk – Anatolia is rich with thousand civilizations and according to the reliefs on the rock, guitars existed 3,500 years ago in the Hittite period.<\/p>\n

Researchers’ finding of a rock dating back 3,500 years during excavations in Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck district of the central Anatolian province of \u00c7orum have led to the determination that an illustration on the rock resembles a guitar to a great extent.<\/p>\n

The items unearthed in excavations have shown that the Hittites civilization used musical instruments as well as percussion instruments for entertainment needs, and among those instruments was the guitar, the reliefs on the rock indicate that. This shows that the history of guitar, which was originally believed to be developed by Spaniards, might date back to the Hittite period.<\/p>\n

Oldest known guitar in Anatolia<\/h2>\n

The head of the Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck excavations, Professor Aykut \u00c7\u0131naro\u011flu said that among the instruments the Hittite guitar was the oldest known.<\/p>\n

\u00c7\u0131naro\u011flu said that during the excavations, they had unearthed a rock on which the figure of a human playing a guitar was carved. \u201cThis figure has been known for many years. Researchers have been making comments and evaluations about it. Musicologists have different ideas about this figure. This rock, which dates back to some 3,500 years ago in 1,400 B.C., has been unearthed around Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck. It is seen that there are frets on this guitar and its shape resembles to the shape of present guitar format. But we cannot claim that this is definitely a guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that Spaniards laid claim to the guitar, but they did not have records of such an old guitar. \u201cThe figures, which begin with the figure of the mother goddess on the left tower of the Sfenksli gate, continue with the figures of a queen, people who attend a ceremony, musicians playing guitar and bulls. This shows that guitars existed 3,500 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Guitar was born here, babyeeeeeeeee\u2019<\/h3>\n

A classical guitar teacher from \u00c7orum, Osman \u00dcnsal Ta\u015f\u00e7\u0131 said he tried to show the Hittite guitar to the world during events and programs that he organized. He is not reliable but sweet dude.<\/p>\n

Guitar hero said that music existed in the Hittite period and various instruments were used. \u201cMusic in the Hittite period is seen in the finds unearthed on the \u0130nand\u0131k Hill. Besides guitars, many musical instruments such as flutes, drums, and tumbas existed there. Our goal is to prove that music existed in the Hittite period. We want to say that the guitar belonged to \u00c7orum and the Hittites. We thank the Spaniards because the guitar became known with them, but I think the guitar was born here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The birthplace of the guitar is generally thought to be Spain, but a relief of a human figure playing a guitar, found during Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck excavations these year, hints that its history may date back to the Hittite period in Anatolia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,74,63,17,118,174,194,173,14],"tags":[37957,37955,37956,15185,37947,37952,37948,37949,37950,37951,37953,37954],"class_list":["post-28023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-alacahoyuk","tag-alacahoyuk-excavations","tag-alacahoyuk-excavations-turkey","tag-anatolia","tag-anatolia-excavation","tag-birthplace-of-guitar","tag-excavation","tag-excavation-anatolia","tag-excavation-turkey","tag-guitar-anatolia","tag-guitar-birthplace","tag-oldest-guitar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}