Site Hakemi Use

Main Information

Site ID	94
Name of the site	Hakemi Use
Alias name	Harem-i Use
Alternative name	Hakemi Use Tepesi
District	Diyarbakir
Region	Southeastern Anatolia
Country	Turkey
Period	Anatolia Late Neolithic Anatolia Late Neolithic
Description	Hakemi Use is a settlement-mound located within the borders of Tepe, Bismil District, in the province of Diyarbakir. The settlement is ca. 70km along the Diyarbakir-Batman hightway, 12km southeast of Bismil, on the north side of the Bismil-Tepe highway. The mound, 544m above sea level, is located on the southern bank of an old bed of the Tigris River, and it is ca. 120m in diameter and 4m in height. Hakemi Use was first recorded during surface surveys carried out in the region at the end of the 1980s and notes as "Hakemi Use Tepesi" dating to the Late Neolithic period. The site was later revisited at the end of the 1980s by the excavation team working at Üctepe. A fragment of a vase with a nipple-base of the Late Assyrian period, collected on the mound, was published as a find from "Usotepesi". Since the area has been cultivated for many years, the upper layers of the site are highly disturbed. Ther is another settlement revealing Medieval ceramics on the surfae, some 200m to the east of the main settlement. Excavations have been carried out in a number of trenches, 10x10m, on the northern side of the settlement along the former bed of the Tigris River. Undisturbed archaeological deposits encountered in seven of the trenches reviealed the stratigraphic sequence of the site; the three main phases thus recorded are as follows: Period I (EIA/Late Assyrian Period), Period II (LBA/Middle Assyrian Period), Period III (LN (Hassuna/Samarra Period).
Topography	hill
Geographical Coordinate Reference System	None
Latitude	None
Longitude	None
Elevation	None
Exact location	no
Coordinate source	None
Number of activity periods	3
Comment	The name of Hakemi Use arose from the designation "Yusuf Tepesi" attributed to the mound by the locals from the name of Yusuf, the former owner of the field in which the mound is located; in time the site came to be known as "Harem-i Use". To avoid confusion, the excavation team decided to use the already published name of the site, Hakemi Use, however, without affixing the word "Tepesi", as in this case "Tepe" has the same meaning as "Harem".

Bibliography

Reference	Tekin, H.,Hakemi Use. A new discovery regarding the Northern distribution of Hassuna/Samarran Pottery in the Near East.,None,None Tekin, H.,Yukari Dicle Vadisi'nde Bir Hassuna/Samarra Yerlesimi: Hakemi Use.,None,None Kartal, M.,Preliminary Analysis of the Knapped Stone Assemblages from Hakemi Use: A Late Neolithic Settlement in S-E Turkey,2007, Tekin, H.,Hakemi Use 2001 Kazisi,None,None Tekin, H.,Preliminary Results of the 2001 Excavations at Hakemi Use.,None,None Tekin, H.,Hakemi Use. A Newly Discovered Late Neolithic Site in Southeastern Anatolia,None,None Algaze, G.,The Tigris Archaeological Reconnaisance Project, 1989,None,None Tekin, H.,Hakemi Use (Diyarbakir) 2002 Yili Kazilari,None,None Kartal, M.,Analyse Préliminaire des Ensembles Lithiques de Hakemi Use. Site du Néolithique final dans le Sud-est de la Turquie.,None,None Tekin, H.,Hakemi Use Kazisinda Ele Gecen Kilden Bir Hassuna Figürini.,None,None Tuna, N.,Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilisu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs Activities in 2001,None,None

Areas in this Site

Areas

ID 149 settlement	Anatolia Late Neolithic
ID 150 cemetery or grave	Anatolia Late Neolithic