Area 1149
Main Information
| Area ID | 1149 |
| Site |
Keçiçayırı |
| Area type | settlement |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Anatolia: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Anatolia: Early Neolithic |
| Dating method | material culture |
| 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 | There are at least two different layers wich can be assigned to the Neolithic period. The lower one has so far yielded no pottery, but only chipped stone and is related to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. |
| Settlement type | tell |
| Settlement structure | |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape |
circular |
| Settlement building technique |
stone socket |
| Settlement archaeological features | |
| 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 | |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | |
| 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 prehistoric settlements are concentrated in three different areas far apart from each other. These are the fields to the northeast of the plain, the western outskirts of Cıbırada (the Terrace and the Höyük) and the summit of Cıbırada. The roman settlement which covers a large area, has considerably hampered the efforts to determine the spread and concentration of the prehistoric setllements. At the fields to the northeast remnants of stone foundations possibly from a building were visible. Three layers appeared after removal of the stones which had two shallow pits. Both the stone concentration and the layers underneath yielded quite a bit of chipped stone material and a few sherds which all might belong to the Early Neolithic at the latest. At the Höyük and the Terrace fillings inside and outside the Roman buildings yielded quite a bit of chipped stone and one or two pieces of Early Neolithic sherds. A hüge standing stone on the eastern edge of the mound could still be dated to the Neolithic period. The Terrace had four different pebbly layers with chipped stone and small pottery sherds. At the top of Cıbırada no architectural remains were ancountered, except a slightly curving row of stones which might be a remnant from a round house. |
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