Site Boncuklu

Main Information

Site ID	637
Name of the site	Boncuklu
Alias name	Boncuklu Höyük
Alternative name
District	Konya
Region	Central Anatolia
Country	Turkey
Period	Anatolia Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Description	This site lies in the Konya Plain and is about 9,5 km away from Çatalhöyük. It was discovered in 2001 during the Konya Plain Survey Project. The höyük lies 2 m above the current plain level and covers an area of over 1 ha. The site had been established on a marl rise (--> advantages like view over the plain) in marshy surroundings in the Early Holocene. It spans the 9th and 8th millennia cal. BC (PPNB). There also were later burials, probably Byzantinic. Lithics and decorated stone artifacts were revealed, e.g. microlith-dominant assemblages.
Topography	plain
Geographical Coordinate Reference System	WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984
Latitude	37.751783000000
Longitude	32.864722000000
Elevation	None
Exact location	yes
Coordinate source	OREA
Number of activity periods	None
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Bibliography

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Areas in this Site

Areas

ID 826 settlement

Anatolia Pre-Pottery Neolithic B