Boncuklu Höyük is a
Neolithic archaeological site in
Central Anatolia, Turkey, situated around 9 km from the more famous
Çatalhöyük site. The
tell is made up of the remains of one of the world's oldest villages, occupied between around 8300 to 7800 BCE.
The buildings are small and oval shaped with walls constructed of mudbricks. The remains of burials of human bodies were found below the floors of the buildings. The earliest known
ceramics of Anatolia have been discovered there.
The site was first recorded by
Douglas Baird
Douglas Gordon Baird (born July 10, 1953) is an American legal scholar, the Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor and a former dean of the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the faculty in 1980 and served as the dean from 19 ...
of the
University of Liverpool in 2001.
He has directed excavations there since 2006.
See also
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Çatalhöyük
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Gobekli Tepe
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Karahan Tepe
Karahan Tepe is an archaeological site in Şanlıurfa Province in Turkey. The site is close to Göbekli Tepe and archaeologists have also uncovered T-shaped stelae there. According to ''Daily Sabah'', "The excavations have uncovered 250 obelisks ...
References
External links
Boncuklu Project website
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Populated places established in the 9th millennium BC
Populated places disestablished in the 8th millennium BC
Archaeological sites in Central Anatolia
Neolithic settlements
Neolithic sites of Asia
2001 archaeological discoveries
Tells (archaeology)