Area 1154
Main Information
| Area ID | 1154 |
| Site |
Karadere Cave |
| Area type | cave or rockshelter |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Anatolia: Late Neolithic Anatolia: Early Chalcolithic |
| Dating method | none recorded |
| 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 | |
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| Comment | |
| Settlement type | None |
| Settlement structure | |
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| Settlement archaeological features | |
| Cave/rockshelters type | cave |
| 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 | |
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| 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 Rock Painting was placed in a cave on the northern slope of the Karadere Valley. The painting is showing an assemblage of mainly male figures of different sizes in frontal view. Four of them are apparently wearing long robes. The principal one seems to be the fourth figure from the left, whose elevated position and his elevated arms with clenched hands raises him above the crowd. The T-shaped headdress may connote horns and is interpreted as a god, magician or shaman. The main figure therefore represents perhaps the Weather God. |
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Location of the Site
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