Area 152
Main Information
| Area ID | 152 |
| Site |
Til Huzur-Yayvantepe |
| Area type | settlement |
| Area NR | Structure A7 (square W500) |
| Period | Anatolia: Middle Neolithic Anatolia: Late Neolithic Anatolia: Early Chalcolithic |
| 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 |
Caneva, I., Salvage excavations at Yayvantepe, None, None Caneva, I., Til Huzur – Yayvantepe, None, None |
| Comment | The pottery found in this Area can be compared well to Neolithic Cayönü Phases and other Neolithic sites in this region. Radiocarbon datin was only preformed on one seed sample from Area A2 (see respective entry), providing an absolute date of 5770 +/-80 BP (4775-4525 cal.BC), considered to be quite late for the expected cultral attribution of this level to a Pre-Halafian phase. As the here described Area has not been dated, the radiocarbon date is not described here. Being positioned right underneath of Structure A2, one can presume, though, it can be assumed, that the building belongs to next earlier phase. |
| Settlement type | tell |
| Settlement structure |
houses: free-standing |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape |
rectangular |
| Settlement building technique |
mud brick |
| 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 | A sequence of mudbrick architectural levels characterised the whole stratigraphy from top to bottom. Stone foundations or basements were completely absent: the walls, consisting of one line of mudbricks, were set directly on the soil. The shape of the structures was presumably square or rectangular, though in non of the squares could the layout of the buildings be identified, due to the small size of the exposure. Two such structures were identified in square W500 (A2 and A7) and two more in square W400 (A3 and A6), while no defind structures were found in the lower squares (W300, 200 and 100). Structure A7 was brought to light immediately below A2, in a narrow step dug on the slope, still in square W500. It consisted only of a thin wall, with the same characteristics and almost in the same location as the one in the level above. The structure was not burnt and appeared to have been levelled in order to make place for the sperimposed structure A2. Except for this stratigrhaphic information, which evokes a plausible close relationship between the two architectural levels, no other significant data or find could be recorded for this feature in such a small exposure. |
| Comment |
Location of the Site
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