Bademağacı
Coordinates: 37 ° 13 ′ 23 ″ N , 30 ° 29 ′ 53 ″ E
Bademağacı is a Höyük on the north slope of the Taurus about 50 km north of Antalya and 20 km from Bucak , 2.5 km northeast of the village Bademağacı in the Döşemealtı district of the Antalya province at an altitude of 780 m. The hill was first described by James Mellaart under the name Kızılkaya ( Red Rock ).
The oval settlement hill has a radius between 110 and 210 m. It rises about 7 meters from the surrounding area, with its cultural layers reaching up to two meters below today's surface. The mound has been excavated by Refik Duru and Gülsün Umurtak since 1993 , around 3,000 m² have been excavated so far. The remains of the settlement date from the early and late Neolithic as well as from the Early and Middle Bronze Age .
The Neolithic settlement existed continuously until the beginning of the Chalcolithic , of which only a few fragments were found, which indicates a hiatus . Around 2,000 years later, in the 24./23. Century BC BC, in the Bronze Age, the place was repopulated. After another brief hiatus, the last settlement for the time being was in the Middle Bronze Age in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. At the highest point of the hill stood a Byzantine church, which was probably abandoned with the immigration of Turkish tribes in the 12th century.
literature
- Refik Duru: Bademağacı settlement mound. in The oldest monuments of mankind. Exhibition catalog Karlsruhe, Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2072-8 , p. 143 (with aerial photo and other literature)
- Refik Duru: From 8000 BC to 2000 BC. Six thousand years of the Burdur-Antalya region. Suna-İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü, Antalya 2008, ISBN 978-605-0027-02-0 .