Höyücek

Höyücek is a Neolithic site in Turkey about 35  km from Burdur .

The mound rises with a diameter of 120  m is 3.5 m above the surrounding landscape. However, as the excavations between 1989 and 1992 showed, its cultural layers are 7.5 m thick, as they reach up to 4 m below today's ground level.

The place was founded in the early Neolithic , while the exact stratigraphy of the place could not be clarified. The best preserved house floor plans were made in the second half of the 7th millennium BC. BC. They were built of mud bricks and were divided by pillars that supported the roof. Possibly a better preserved building is a cult building; the inventory suggests that.

The phase above also belongs to the Neolithic. Architectural remains have been sparsely preserved here. What was noticeable in this phase, however, were the existing plastered surfaces on which figurines were placed in addition to dishes and everyday objects .

The Höyücek was excavated from 1989 to 1992 under the direction of Refik Duru . The finds from Höyücek are shown in the Burdur Archaeological Museum .

literature

• Refik Duru: Höyücek. In: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (Ed.), Clemens Lichter (Red.): 12,000 years ago in Anatolia. The oldest monuments of mankind. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-2072-8 , p. 147 ( exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name 2007 in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe).
• Refik Duru (Ed.), Suna-İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü (Ed.): From 8000 BC to 2000 BC. Six thousand years of the Burdur-Antalya region (=  Monography series , Volume 4). Vehbi Koç Vakfı, Antalya 2008, ISBN 978-6-05-002702-0 (English).