<< Text Pages >> Karaz - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey
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Multi-periodSite Name: KarazCountry: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 6.133 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Erzurum Nearest Village: Kahramanlar
Latitude: 39.991959N Longitude: 41.115427E
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 |
0 | No data. |
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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Ancient Settlement in Erzurum Province, Turkey
Rescue excavations made in 1944 revealed many levels down to the Early Bronze Age. The site gives its name to the red-black pottery "Karaz ware" of the Kura-Araxes culture of that time.
"The stratigraphy of Karaz is a problem. The lower levels of the mound date to the EBA 1 according to many archaeologists. The recovery of wares; named as "Karaz ware"; stratigraphically in the Late Chalcolithic Age; in Elazig Region; suggests that such pottery was existent since the end of the 4th Millennium BC in Eastern Anatolia Region. It is not possible to separate the 4th Millennium BC and the 3rd Millennium BC "Karaz ware" sherds for now."
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