Aşağımollahasan höyük is a höyük ('' mound'') in Özalp, Turkey, and is the first known settlement in prehistory in the area of

Van A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and bigger than a common car. There is some varying in the scope of the word across th ...

. It was discovered by

Charles A. Burney Charles Allen Burney (born 1930) is a British archaeologist known for his discovery of Urartian sites in Turkey in the 1950s and his excavations at Yanik Tepe, Tabriz, Iran from 1960 to 1962. Early life Burney was born in 1930 and educated at Eto ...

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Archaeological sites of prehistoric Anatolia Urartu Kura-Araxes culture Archaeological sites in Turkey {{Turkey-struct-stub