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<< Text Pages >> Direkli Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Turkey

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Direkli Cave Alternative Name: Direkli Mağarası
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 21.974 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Kahramanmaraş  Nearest Village: Döngel
Latitude: 37.862903N  Longitude: 36.644161E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Cave in Turkey. 16,000 year-old mother goddess figurine unearthed. Archaeologists unearthed 16,000 year-old mother goddess figurine during excavations in Direkli Cave in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş.

Gazi University Archaeology Department lecturer Cevdet Merih Erek told the Anatolia news agency on Monday that the excavations in Direkli Cave, 65 km away from Kahramanmaras, started on July 15.

Noting that it was the third cave excavation of Turkey, Erek said that the clay mother goddess figurine they found was 16,000 years old.

Erek said that the figurine showed that the social status of women was very important 16,000 years ago.

Erek noted that the oldest fired clay god or goddess figurines --unearthed in Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Near East-- were made in 5,000 BC. He added that experts believed that the clay was used earliest in that period, however, the goddess figurine showed that this method was older than thought.

Source: Anatolia News Agency
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Re: Direkli Cave by Anonymous on Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Would love it if they had a picture on their site. =(
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