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Multi-periodSite Name: Kulluoba Hoyuk Alternative Name: Küllüoba Höyüğü
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Eskişehir  Nearest Village: Yenikent
Latitude: 39.556332N  Longitude: 30.743936E
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
no data 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
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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
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Ancient Settlement in Eskişehir Province, Turkey

A large Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age settlement mound, 200 metres in diameter and 10 metres tall.

In EBA I the site had an encircling mud brick wall with ramparts and houses built up against the inside of it. In EBA II-III the settlement expanded into a lower town on the east slope of the hill and houses were of megaron type.
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5,000-year-old paint palette found in Küllüoba by davidmorgan on Saturday, 29 August 2020
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A 5,000-year-old paint palette made of stone was found in excavations that have been ongoing in Küllüoba since 1996 in the Seyitgazi district of the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir.

Efforts are underway to bring to light the history of the region, where uninterrupted settled life existed for 1,600 years during the Bronze Age between 3500-1900 B.C.

This year, a team of 30 people consisting of faculty members and students from Çukurova, Batman and Hacettepe universities, led by Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University (BŞEÜ), is working in the excavations.

Traces of the Bronze Age are searched in the mound, which is 350 meters long and 150 meters wide and located 15 kilometers northeast of Seyitgazi district center. During the studies in the east and west of the mound, it is estimated that the 5,000-year-old palette found in one of the houses of the period was used to paint the bowls.

Head of the excavations, Associated Professor Murat Türktaki said that the excavations in Küllüoba were initiated in 1996.

Stating that Küllüoba, located at the western end of the Upper Sakarya Plain of Eskişehir, is a settlement that dominates both the plain and the trade lines passing through the region, Türkteki said.

“It is one of the settlements on the trade line extending from northern Syria to the Balkans from 2,400s to 2,300 B.C. It is certain that this plain was used for caravan trade. Control of the plain was also provided by Küllüoba.”

Türkteki explained that during the 2020 excavations they aimed to establish a link between the structures of this community and the earliest settlers living in the cemetery site, the location of which was determined last year.

Expressing that they excavated areas covering 3000s B.C. this year, Türkteki said that the settlement in Küllüoba was very large since the beginning of the first Bronze Age.

He said that the excavation work continued in the residential area of the period.

“We found that domestic production was made in every house. Inside each house there is a stove and oven. We can say that woven and clay pot production was made. One of our important findings this year is that we found red colored paint residue in a container. Painted pottery was also found in the same area,” Türkteki said.

“There are traces of paint residues in it. In the palette we found, red paint residues look very good. We think this palette was used for painting containers. We can date the palette to 2,900-3,000 years B.C. We will make analysis of paint marks in the coming days. We will carry out its content and pigment analysis. An important and exciting find, as it is a find we have not encountered before,” he added.

Source: Hürriyet Daily News.
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Central Turkish excavation site reaches back 5,500 years by davidmorgan on Sunday, 12 August 2018
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In central Turkey, a 35-person team is busy excavating a site that dates back some 5,500 years.

Archaeological remains unearthed in Kulluoba, in Seyitgazi in the central Eskişehir province, show that the site was inhabited continuously from 3500 BC until 1900 BC.

Professor Turan Efe of Bilecik University in northwestern Turkey, who heads the excavation team, told Anadolu Agency that Kulluoba gives the impression that the first steps towards urban building styles were taken there.

“The most important indicator of this is the gradual emergence of independent buildings belonging to the public,” Efe said.

He added that they also uncovered evidence of the existence of a land road between Mesopotamia, the ancient region extending from Iraq into present-day southeastern Turkey, to the city of Troy, in modern-day Çanakkale, in northwestern Turkey.

This showed that the cultural and commercial ties in 2400-2200 BC --part of the Bronze Age -- were established not by sea, as it is generally thought, but by using a land route, he added.

Efe called this road the “Great Caravan Route.”

Sennur Azade, an Eskişehir culture and tourism official, said that this year the state Culture Ministry provided 90,000 Turkish liras ($15,000) for the excavation.

Azade said a vessel that apparently held human tears was found during the excavations, calling the discovery “exciting.”

“The findings are being exhibited at the Eskişehir Eti Archaelogical Museum,” she added.

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