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Submitted by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 07 June 2016  Page Views: 2622

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Çantaköy
Country: Turkey
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Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Silivri  Nearest Village: Çantaköy
Latitude: 41.116711N  Longitude: 28.080092E
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Çantaköy submitted by davidmorgan : The 5,000-year-old kurgan style tomb. Photo from Hürriyet Daily News. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The first and oldest (5,000-year-old) kurgan-style tomb that has been discovered and completely unearthed in Turkey. Excavations by the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Istanbul’s Silivri district have unearthed a “kurgan-style” tomb, which officials have already heralded as the biggest archaeological discovery of the year.

A kurgan is a circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave that often contains grave vessels, weapons and the bodies of horses as well as a single human body. The type of tomb was originally used on the Russian steppes but later spread to eastern, central and northern Europe in the 3rd millennium B.C. The type of grave was holy in Turkic and Altay culture.

The skeleton of a person who was believed to have been an important warrior was found inside the tomb alongside an arrowhead.

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Re: Tomb in Istanbul's Silivri year’s ‘biggest archaeological discovery’ by Anonymous on Tuesday, 07 June 2016
This is not a Kurgan, but a cairn. And It is nor right to date the 5000 years, but right to date 3000 years. There are not an arrowhead, but a sword. Regrettably the news are not right, but pseudo-scientific layman's tale.
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Tomb in Istanbul's Silivri year’s ‘biggest archaeological discovery’ by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 17 May 2016
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Excavations by the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Istanbul’s Silivri district have unearthed a “kurgan-style” tomb, which officials have already heralded as the biggest archaeological discovery of the year.

A kurgan is a circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave that often contains grave vessels, weapons and the bodies of horses as well as a single human body. The type of tomb was originally used on the Russian steppes but later spread to eastern, central and northern Europe in the 3rd millennium B.C. The type of grave was holy in Turkic and Altay culture.

The skeleton of a person who was believed to have been an important warrior was found inside the tomb alongside an arrowhead.

The tomb is “the first and oldest 5,000-year-old kurgan-style tomb that has been discovered and completely unearthed in Turkey,” according to the excavation report, which is expected to provide new information about the history of Istanbul and Thrace in the wake of the Yenikapı archaeological excavations.

The excavations have been carried out on the site of summer houses where social facilities will be established in Silivri’s Çanta village. Initiated in December 2015, the excavations lasted five months.

According to a report sent to the Istanbul Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board, the soldier inside the tomb is believed to have lived in the Bronze Age. It is reported that the kurgan-style tomb, the forerunner of the tumulus, was previously looted by treasure hunters who nonetheless failed to access the main tomb.

Kurgan-style tombs were prominent in Central Asian culture. The same type of tomb was found in pieces in 1980 by Professor Mehmet Özdoğan in the Taşlıcabayır field in the northwestern province of Kırklareli’s Asılbeyli village during surface surveys of Thrace.

Further excavations have failed to unearth the architectural structure, but earthenware pots from the Iron Age in 1,200 B.C. have been found.

The grave was the only known kurgan-style tomb in Thrace until the discovery of the tomb in Silivri, which not only older than the Kırklareli find but also completely intact.

The Istanbul Archaeology Museum has requested the registration of the tomb’s field and transfer of the tomb to a museum with its all pieces. The museum will display the tomb in its Thrace and Istanbul findings section.

“Thrace received migrations from the north. This is a kurgan-style tomb and such tombs exist in my studies, too,” said Istanbul University Archaeology Department Prehistoric Department Professor Mehmet Özdoğan. “I know that lots of kurgan tombs have been destroyed in Thrace. We have rescued one of them from the digger. But this tomb is older and is from the Bronze Age. It is a very important discovery. I believe scientific examinations will lead to interesting results.”

The circular tomb, which is surrounded by stones in a plan, is six meters in width. The inside of the tomb, however, is in a rectangular shape.

The skeleton lies on stony ground in a half-hocker position and is buried with gifts for the dead. The hocker position is a fetal-like position where the arms embrace the lower limbs, ostensibly to allow the deceased to enter the next world like a newborn or to prevent the dead from rising from the grave.

The arrowhead on the skeleton symbolizes that he was an important warrior or commander.

Two earthenware pots from the Bronze Age that were also found in the tomb were believed to be gifts to the deceased.

Source: Hürriyet
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    Re: Tomb in Istanbul's Silivri year’s ‘biggest archaeological discovery’ by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 18 May 2016
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    Another article at Daily Sabah.

    Rare 5,000-year-old kurgan-type tumulus from the Bronze Age unearthed in Istanbul.

    The Istanbul Archeology Museum announced on Monday that they have made the largest archeological discovery of the year by unearthing "A 5,000-year-old tumulus, the oldest ever found in the country" in the Istanbul district of Silivri. The discovery is expected to shed greater light on the history of Istanbul and the wider Thracian region.

    According to reports, archeologists have found the 5,000-year-old kurgan-type tumulus, considered the first completely intact tumulus of its kind to be excavated, during a rescue dig which started in December 2015 at a summer residence complex in the Çanta region of Silivri.

    A report submitted in April by the First Istanbul Board for the Protection of Cultural Artifacts stated that the tumulus likely belongs to a prominent Bronze Age soldier or warrior who came from the north, as he was buried with a spearhead.
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