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Multi-periodSite Name: Cayonu Alternative Name: Çayönü TepesiCountry: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ergani Nearest Village: Sesverenpınar
Latitude: 38.218286N Longitude: 39.725585E
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
Çayönü is a neolithic settlement dating from 7250 to 6750 BCE. Excavations, were first undertaken by Professor Robert Braidwood of the Oriental Institute and Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, between 1964-1978 and 1985-1991 by Mehmet Özdogan. The settlement was inhabited between from Pre-Pottery Neolithic A to PPNB. Numerous skulls were found buried under the dwellings. At Çayönü the oldest known terrazzo floor, which was produced with concrete made of burned lime, was discovered.
Çayönü is probably the place where the first known pigs were domesticated. The wild fauna includes wild boar, wild sheep, wild goat and cervids. Evidence at the site suggests that domesticated emmer and einkorn wheat were cultivated early on.
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