Lidar Höyük

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Lidar Höyük is an archaeological site in the northwest of the Turkish province of Şanlıurfa , not far from today's city of Bozova on the Ataturk Dam . The name of the tell probably goes back to the name of a Byzantine fortress.

The place was discovered in 1979 as part of the Aşağı Fırat Havzası Yüzey Araştırması Projesi . In the same year, excavations by the DAI Istanbul began in cooperation with the University of Heidelberg under the direction of Harald Hauptmann and ended in 1987 when the mound sank in the reservoir. The research showed that the place was inhabited from the Early Bronze Age to the Middle Ages . The oldest traces of settlement could even be assigned to the Copper Age.

literature

H. Hauptmann, Kayıp Zamanların Peşide. Alman Arkeoloji Enstitüsü Anadolu Kazıları , 1999.
Gundela Kaschau: Lidar Höyük: The ceramics of the Middle Bronze Age (Archaeologica Euphratica 3). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999. ISBN 3-8053-2340-9