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DigsSite Name: Yümük Tepe Alternative Name: Yümüktepe, Yumuktepe Höyük
Country: 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
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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.

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Re: Yümük Tepe by davidmorgan on Sunday, 21 August 2016
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Palace unearthed in Mersin’s ancient settlement Yumuktepe by davidmorgan on Thursday, 11 September 2014
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Ongoing archaeological excavations in one of the world’s oldest settlements, the Yumuktepe tumulus in the southern province of Mersin, have unearthed the remains of a palace. The palace dates to as far back as 4,500 B.C., and the quality of the pavement outside the palace was a big surprise for archaeologists.

Traces of settlements at Yumuktepe date back to 7,000 B.C. and settlements continued there until the 13th century. The excavation works in Yumuktepe are currently headed by Professor Isabella Caneva, from the Archeology Department in Italy’s Lecce University.

Caneva said this year’s works started one month ago and focused on the layers of the chalcolithic era in 5,000 B.C, yielding good results so far. The remains of the palace were discovered during works in previous years, she added.

“This year’s work completely revealed the outline of the palace. We call it palace because it is a big building. It is from 4,500 B.C., the late chalcolithic era. At these times, normal houses were very small but there is a very big hall here. Each room was also floored with adobe. There were nearly 200 cups and ceramics, which means the meal was cooked for many people here. People who lived here were not a normal family but a large or elite family,” Caneva said.

She added that the remains of the palace reflected the traces of many generations of Mesopotamian civilizations. “This place is more monumental and in higher quality when compared to normal houses. There is a very good pavement outside the palace. I have never seen such a pavement. It was a surprise,” she said.

Yumuktepe, also known as Soğuksutepe, was founded 9,000 years ago by Neolithic farmers, whose ruined homes now form the core of the archeological ruins. The first excavation was from 1936 to 1938 by J. Garstang. It was the only Neolithic site known of in the Near East until the mid-20th century. The well-watered plain of Mersin rises towards inner Anatolia on one side, and opens towards Syria and the Levant on the other. The charred remains of pistachio, oak and pine trees from the earlier levels at Yumuktepe shows that the area was much more densely forested than in modern times.

Source: Hürriyet
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Ancient skulls, seals unearthed in south Turkey by coldrum on Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Ancient skulls, seals unearthed in south Turkey

Archeologists have unearthed two ancient skulls and two ancient seals in Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reports.

The two ancient skulls reportedly date from 1,500 BC and the ancient seals are 8,500-year-old.

Found in the Yumuktepe tumulus in south Turkey's Mersin province, the skulls belonged to the Hittite period and the seals dated back to the Neolithic period, Italian Prof. Isabella Caneva, head of the excavation team at the tumulus, told Anatolia.

The seals are rare and among the important findings unearthed in Turkey so far, Caneva was quoted as saying.

For the first time in 1936, systematic excavations for the Yumuktepe tumulus started under the supervision of British archeologist John Garstang and now are conducted by a team presided by Caneva since 1993, according to the agency.

An 8,000-year-old skeleton was also found in the Yumuktepe tumulus early in August. This year's excavation will be completed on Sept. 3.

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Re: Yümük Tepe by Andy B on Tuesday, 04 August 2009
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Google image search brings up quite a lot on this:

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