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<< Text Pages >> Körtik Tepe - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Sunday, 27 August 2006  Page Views: 10707

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Körtik Tepe Alternative Name: Kortik Tepe
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Batman  Nearest Village: Ağılköy
Latitude: 37.814400N  Longitude: 40.984000E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.

A pre-ceramic neolithic settlement discovered in 1991.

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Excavations revealing centuries-old designs by davidmorgan on Friday, 26 October 2012
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Excavations at the Körtiktepe settlement in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır’s Bismil district have revealed various types of weaving designs. Aesthetic values were very important in Körtiktepe, according to the head of the excavations, who says the community’s dead were decorated with aesthetic designs.

Researchers working at a dig at Körtiktepe in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır’s Bismil district have unearthed traces of weaving dating back 12,000 years ago, suggesting the site may have been an incubator of early textile production, according to the excavation’s head.

“The bodies, bones and objects that we have examined and the textile samples on them are not prototypes. There were many weaving techniques 12,000 years ago. There are samples of various types of designs. In previous periods, the weaving was standard. But we can see all stages of the development of weaving,” said Professor Vecihi Özkaya, the head of the Dicle University Archaeology Department and the Körtiktepe excavation. “It is apparent that textiles were developed there.”

The excavations have continued since 2000 as part of a project to rescue cultural artifacts that will be submerged once the controversial Ilısu Dam is completed, inundating a large area in Southeast Anatolia. Körtiktepe is located at the confluence of the Tigris River and the Batman Stream close to the Diyarbakır-Batman border.

Özkaya said aesthetic values were also very important in Körtiktepe, adding that the bodies of the dead, as well as pots and pans, were decorated with aesthetic designs.

Körtiktepe was a witness to many firsts, the professor said, noting that social life and many concepts regarding the concrete and abstract worlds had developed in Körtiktepe.

“The Neolithic age is when human beings made a step toward civilization. Contrary to what is believed, this year’s excavations at Körtiktepe reveal that Körtiktepe was one of the earliest-period cities.

People who solved problems of nutrition and settlement lived there,” he said. Social culture was born in Körtiktepe, Özkaya said, adding that belief values were developed.

“Körtiktepe enriches what we know about the ancient ages. It also brings new approaches to what we don’t know. It shows us that Anatolia has a significant place in [cultural history]. It is possible that Körtiktepe is where civilization was born. This is a very important claim but we are working in many fields to reveal it. Now we are waiting for its results,” the excavation leader said. “It was not possible to talk about it in the past, but now we can easily say that the south of Anatolia and the north of Mesopotamia was a turning point in civilization.”

Özkaya said they had so far supplied thousands of objects for the Diyarbakır Museum and that discoveries from Körtiktepe would be the biggest locomotive to opening the museum to scientific tourism.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-revealing-centuries-old-designs.aspx?pageID=238&nID=29792&NewsCatID=375
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Körtik Tepe, a new Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site in south-eastern Anatolia by davidmorgan on Sunday, 13 February 2011
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Archaeological excavations in the mound commenced in 2000 and are still ongoing (Özkaya & San 2002; Özkaya et al. 2002; Özkaya 2004) (Figure 2). Each excavated area has revealed that the mound is rich in stratified material and has great significance in terms of cultural history (Figure 3). The data demonstrate that the Upper Tigris Valley was one of the primary regions of the Near East for the establishment of the earliest permanent settlements. In contrast to the communities leading a nomadic lifestyle, in Körtik Tepe food production technologies were developed and fishing was a common activity (Arbuckle & Özkaya 2006; Özkaya & San 2007). There is also evidence for weaving and architectural units were clearly built for the purpose of storing food (Özkaya & Coskun 2008).

Two main cultural phases have been ascertained. The upper phase is medieval, aspects of which are evident in the present day. The lower phase has been identified as Pre-Pottery Neolithic, represented through the body of the mound by structures, tombs and grave goods. The date is confirmed by burial rites, the style of stone and bone objects and 14C analyses which indicate that the mound was first settled in the tenth millennium BC (Özkaya & Coskun 2007; Özkaya & San 2007).

More at http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/ozkaya/
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