Area 176
Main Information
| Area ID | 176 |
| Site |
Cayönü |
| Area type | cemetery or grave |
| Area NR | First Stage (graves) |
| Period | Anatolia: Pre-Pottery Neolithic A |
| Dating method | none recorded |
| Radiocarbon dated | no |
| 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 |
Bicakci, E., An Essay on the Chronology of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlements of the Taurus Region (Turkey) with the Building Remains and C14 Dates., None, None Özdogan, A., Cayönü, None, None |
| Comment | The burials have been dated by the sampels taken from the buildings of the settlement. As the excavators don't mention the exact location of the graves, nor an exact dating, no radiocarbon dates are mentioned here. |
| Settlement type | None |
| Settlement structure | |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape | |
| Settlement building technique | |
| 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 |
part of house |
| Cemetery/graves mortuary features | |
| Grave: number of graves | |
| Grave type |
pit grave |
| Grave: type of human remains |
inhumation secondary deposition |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | |
| Grave: age groups |
part of specialist report |
| Grave: sexes |
part of specialist report |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | None |
| Grave: disturbance of graves |
none recorded |
| Description | The graves of the Round Building Subphase are rather modest. The dead hav been buried either in pits (sometimes sourrounded by stones) in the open areas or below the floors of the huts, generally lying north-south on their right sides with their faces turned towards the ground, in tighly flexed positions. Isolated primary or secondary burials within the burnt fills of abandoned round/oval huts or in the open areas may well belong to the early grill buildings. There is a trace of a brain surgery (trepanation) on the skull of an individual buried in the fill of a burnt and abandoned semi-subterranean dwelling (RE). Primary burials, singly or in groups of twos and threes, either under the central rooms or between the grill "walls" or in the small cellular divisions, first made their exposed area and the number of grill buildings of the Second Stage. Relative to the size of the exposed area and the number of grill buildings, graves in the settlement are few. The raised practices, and the existence of the first "Skull Building" that we know to have been in use from the Channeled Building Suphase on, might be result of this necessity. |
| Comment |
Location of the Site
Bibliography
| Reference |
Özdogan, A., Cayönü, None, None Özbek, M., Cayönü'nde Kafatasi Delgi Operasyonu, None, None |
Finds in this Area
| Finds |
ID 442 small finds tool |
Interpretations related to this Area
| Interpretation |
ID 25
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