Area 1140
Main Information
| Area ID | 1140 |
| Site |
Bademağacı Höyük |
| Area type | settlement |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Anatolia: Early Neolithic |
| Dating method | material culture radiocarbon dating |
| Radiocarbon dated | None |
| Earliest date: Lab Number | |
| Earliest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Earliest date: Calibration | None |
| Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Earliest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Earliest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Earliest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Earliest date: Dated by | |
| Latest date: Lab Number | |
| Latest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Latest date: Calibration | None |
| Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Latest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Latest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Latest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Latest date: Dated by | |
| Period Reference | |
| Comment | The Early Neolithic settlement has 12 building levels. Among the 12 architectural levels of the Early Neolithic, the presence of two evolutionary stages was apparent: The lowermost five (EN1 with the building levels 9-5) and the upper seven (EN2 with the building levels 4-1). |
| Settlement type | tell |
| Settlement structure |
enclosure: wall houses: free-standing |
| Settlement building type |
one-room |
| Settlement building shape |
rectangular |
| Settlement building technique |
mud brick plaster wall stone socket |
| Settlement archaeological features |
bench clay floor hearth niche oven plastered floor stone row structure storage building storage pit storage vessel terrace wall wall painting |
| Cave/rockshelters type | None |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of graves/human remains | |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of occupation | |
| Quarry exploitation type | None |
| Quarry raw material | |
| Cemetery/graves topography | |
| Cemetery/graves mortuary features | |
| Grave: number of graves | |
| Grave type | |
| Grave: type of human remains |
inhumation |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | 8 |
| Grave: age groups | |
| Grave: sexes | |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | None |
| Grave: disturbance of graves | |
| Description | The oldest architectural evidence from the first settlement period EN1 are parts of terrazzo flooring. The plaster was carefully burnished and the sections painted with dark red or blackish paint. As there was no evidence of architectural remains, it is not clear whether the floor was inside a building or in an open area. The second period EN2 consisted of seven architectural levels. The excavated buildings had a rectangular plan with walls of mudbricks 40-45 cm thick. The longer sides were 5-6 m and the shorter varied between 3,5 and 4 m. The interior corners of the houses were rounded. Some of the walls had shallow niches and the entrance was in the centre of the longer wall with 1 m in width. The buildings were one-roomed and had clay floors with an oven attached to the wall directly opposite the entrance. Only one house had two rooms. In some houses were slightly raised benches for sleeping. In the two-roomed house which was destroyed by fire were found 8 skeletons. It seems that the occupants haven't been intentionally buried there but have been caught in the fire while sleeping. In various parts of the open areas were placed groups of storage boxes made from fired clay. An interesting architectural feature is the rows of single stones aligned parallel to each other in various parts of the settlement. |
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