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DigsSite Name: Yümük Tepe Alternative Name: Yümüktepe, Yumuktepe HöyükCountry: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 1.118 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mersin Nearest Village: Viransehir
Latitude: 36.801195N Longitude: 34.604196E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Burial Chamber and Settlement in Turkey. An 8,000-year-old human skeleton was found during excavations in one of the oldest residential areas in southern Turkey. The skeleton was discovered inside a Neolithic-age tomb unearthed in Yumuktepe Hoyuk of the southern Mersin province.
The find was made by archeologists from the Italian Lecce University and Turkish Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Besides the skeleton, three bowls, a wheat kernel and a dried olive seed from that era were also found in the tomb, it added.
“Vases, bowls and food products were often put in tombs in the late Neolithic period. This shows that people living in that era believed in life after death,” said professor Isabella Caneva of Italian Lecce University.
Systematic excavations in Yumuktepe Hoyuk first started in 1936 under the supervision of British archeologist John Garstang.
Since 1993, the excavations have been conducted by a team headed by Caneva, the report said.
Source: Taragana
Location: This site lies approximately 3.5 km west-northwest of the city of Mersin; along the major highway heading west from the city. Since the city has grown; the site now lies in the Demirtas neighborhood and looks more like a park or picnic area than a mound.
Geography and Environment: The 25 m high mound lies on the southern bank of the Soguksu (Müftüderesi) Stream. The site has a 300 m diameter and covers a 12 hectare area. Although the Department of Monuments and Museums has declared this site as a protected historical area; it has been turned into a park and trees have been planted.
The western part of the mound has been eroded by the flooding of the Soguksu Stream. Although the mound was originally called Yümüktepe; this name has been changed to Yumuktepe; as it is the name that the local villagers use to refer to the site. In addition; there are many archaeological publications that refer to this site as Mersin or Mersin Soguksutepe.
Destruction Details: The mound is being used as a picnic area today
Source: TAY Project
Ancient Anatolian prehistoric settlement dating to about 5000 BCE in mound which later became a significant Hittite town. The artifacts found here are in the Adana Museum.
Location scaled from accurate map.
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