@article{2017,title={PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN SARIÇAY PLAIN (MİLAS-MUĞLA)},abstractNode={Important settlements have been emerged especially in coasts of the west Anatolia and Aegean regions during the historical ages due to the appropriate geographical conditions of these lands. Environments of settlements in the coastal lands have changed significantly after sea level rising at the Holocene. Damlıboğaz and Pilav tepe settlements in Sarıçay plain which lies towards the Güllük gulf in West Anatolia go up to the Bronze Age and the natural environment of that period was different from today. Sarıçay plain which is in the west of the Milas is a tectonic depression filled with alluvium of the river. There are archaeological remains in Damlıboğaz village, on the Pilav tepe and in the plain closer to its foothill. Environment of settlements in Sarıçay depression and Pilav tepe has quite changed from beginning of settlement to present. How far the coast line intruded inside of land? If the coast line reaches to Pilav tepe, determining the old coast line and sea level changes are such an important problems and questions for this area. Five drillings were done in alluvial land at the beginning of the September 2016 in order to determine paleogeographical-geoarchaeological characteristics of the Sarıçay plain and surrounding of the Pilav tepe. The marine sediments have been reached when went down from the surface to present sea level in three drillings which has done between Güllük gulf and Pilav tepe. According to this, it is understood that the sea intruded towards the foothills of the Pilav tepe. Archaeological remains was found in two cores, five meters below the present surface to north of the Sarıçay plain close to the Damlıboğaz village. Units that represents shallow marine environment were reached in deeper parts, it was understood that swampy environments developed behind the coastline towards the north when the sea level was rising and the sea intruded into the depression of Sarıçay.},author={Serdar VARDAR-- Ertuğ ÖNER - Mehmet DOĞAN - Sami BAŞAR},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}