Site Demirköy

Main Information

Site ID	18
Name of the site	Demirköy
Alias name
Alternative name
District	Batman
Region	Southeastern Anatolia
Country	Turkey
Period	Anatolia Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Anatolia Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Description	The site is located across the Batman Stream from the city of Batman's airport, approximately 2 km up river from the bridge that carries the new Batman-Diyarbaku road across the aforementioned river. It is situated at an altitude of ca. 540 m, on the edge of the 10 m terrace that constitutes the west bank of the Batman Stream's current tlood plain, approximately 20 km upstream from the Batman's contluence with the Tigris and ca. 40 km downstream from the site of Hallan Cemi. Surface collections made during the above-mentioned site survey and during a subsequent visit in 1993 indicated that, with the exception of a relatively minor re-occupation of the site during the Medieval period, the site dated exclusively to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It was clear at the time of the survey that the Batman Stream had cut away some indeterminate but substantial part of the site at some point in the past. Based on the spatial extent of artifactual material eroding out of the river section - the bulk of the survey's initial assemblage estimates were that what remained of the site stretched for ca. 300m along the edge of the terrace, to a depth of as much as perhaps seven meters. ln contrast, the visible surface scatter was seen to extend in from the terrace edge only for a maximum distance of ca. 50 m. However, it was thought that alluvial wash from a higher and older terrace ca. 1 km further to the west was obscuring the more westerly portians of the original site surface and associated artifact scatter, and that the site likely extended further in from the river terrace than the ca. 50 m indicated by the visible surface scatter.
Topography	hill
Geographical Coordinate Reference System	WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984
Latitude	37.931381000000
Longitude	41.094921000000
Elevation	540
Exact location	yes
Coordinate source	OREA
Number of activity periods	None
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Location of the Site

Bibliography

Reference	Rosenberg, M.,Demirköy,None,None Rosenberg, M.,Demirköy,2007,Istanbul Savard, M.,Epipaleolithic to Early Neolithic Subsistence Strategies in the Northern Fertile Crescent: the Archaeobotanical Remains from Hallan Cemi, Demirköy, M'lefaat and Qermez Dere,None,None Rosenberg, M.; Peasnall, B. L.,A Report on Soundings at Demirköy Höyük: An Aceramic Neolithic Site in Eastern Anatolia,1998, Peasnall, B.L.,A Preliminary Description of the Lithic Industry from Demirköy Höyük,None,None Algaze, G.,The Tigris-Euphrates Archaeological Reconnaissance Project: A Preliminary Report of the 1989-1990 Seasons,None,None

Areas in this Site

Areas

ID 26 settlement	Anatolia Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
ID 27 cemetery or grave	Anatolia Pre-Pottery Neolithic A