Area 174
Main Information
| Area ID | 174 |
| Site |
Cafer Höyük |
| Area type | settlement |
| Area NR | Cafer Höyük - Early Phase (Levels 13-9) |
| Period | Anatolia: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B |
| Dating method | radiocarbon dating |
| Radiocarbon dated | yes |
| Earliest date: Lab Number | Ly-4436 |
| Earliest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Earliest date: Calibration | no |
| Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Earliest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Earliest date: Standard deviation | 190 |
| Earliest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Earliest date: Dated by | charcoal |
| Latest date: Lab Number | LY-4437 |
| Latest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Latest date: Calibration | no |
| Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Latest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Latest date: Standard deviation | 80 |
| Latest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Latest date: Dated by | charcoal |
| Period Reference | |
| Comment | |
| Settlement type | tell |
| Settlement structure |
houses: free-standing |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape |
rectangular |
| Settlement building technique |
mud brick pisé stone socket |
| Settlement archaeological features |
buttress clay floor clay platform fireplace hearth oven stone setting wall |
| 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 | 2 |
| Grave type |
pit grave |
| Grave: type of human remains |
secondary deposition |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | 1 |
| Grave: age groups |
adult subadult |
| Grave: sexes |
sex not specified |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | 2 |
| Grave: disturbance of graves |
none recorded |
| Description | The burials are outside the constructed spaces and the skeletons are missing their skulls. This may be inferred by default that there existed a kind of "skull cult". |
| Comment |
Location of the Site
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| Interpretation |
ID 94
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