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<< Text Pages >> Barcin Tumulus - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 03 September 2014  Page Views: 2923

Multi-periodSite Name: Barcin Tumulus Alternative Name: Barçın Höyük
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 39.145 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Yenişehir
Latitude: 40.266964N  Longitude: 29.602068E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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A Neolithic settlement dating from the mid 7th millennium BCE, inhabited up to the Early Bronze Age. Situated in Bursa Province, Turkey

More information at the TAY Project website.

Note: Footprints dating back to the Neolithic period (6,400 BC) have been discovered during excavations in Barçın tumulus. See the news item linked in the comment to view the prints.
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Ancient footprints discovered in Bursa by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 02 September 2014
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Footprints dating back to the Neolithic period (6,400 B.C.) have been discovered during excavations in Barçın tumulus in the northwestern province of Bursa’s Yenişehir district.

Koç University academic, Rana Özbal, said works had been continuing in Barçın tumulus since 2007 under the coordination of the Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Dutch Research Institute.

She said the oldest settlement in the region dated back to 8,600 B.C., adding, “The houses in tumulus are semidetached. In one of the houses, we have found a pair of footprints and now we are searching for how they appeared.”

“The floor of the house was plastered. When the plaster was still wet, the footprints remained on the floor. Sometime later the house burned down. Thanks to this fire, the prints have remained until now. According to radiocarbon estimations, the footprints date back to 6,450 B.C,” she added.

Even though several footprints were discovered during the Marmaray excavations in Istanbul, Özbal claimed that the ones in Yenişehir were much older.

Conservation expert Evren Kıvançer, who is working on the footprints, said those prints could not be kept in the excavation area. “To make it an artwork, we had to take these footprints from the excavation area and stabilize them. The prints had become hard thanks to the fire. This made our work easier,” Kıvançer said, adding “these prints are good enough to tell us the person’s height, weight and even gender.”

Source: Hürriyet

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