Description |
This site lies in the Province of Konya, about 24,5 km away from Çatalhöyük, at the end of a promontory of limestone hills (Bozdağ), that projects northwest of the Karadağ, a volcanic massif. It is situated in an embayment at the northwest tip of the Bozdağ, facing to the west.
A series of rock shelters and caves are situated against the limestone cliffs; in the northernmost rock shelter was trench B. A talus was descending from the west to the cliff face, built up of colluvium and remains from the Early Bronze Age and Roman-Byzantine occupation, with terraces of the Hellenistic-Byzantine (?) settlement and agriculture of various periods. At the foot of this deposit was a small promontory that projected into the surrounding lake, marsh and spring areas (immediately to the north, west and south --> the recently dried up Lake Hotamış ). The major spring of the site was at the south side of the promontory.
The site was occupied in the Epi-Paleolithic, the 9th and 7th millennium cal. BC, the Early Bronze Age and in the Roman/Byzantine period. |