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Aşıklı Höyük
Aşıklı Höyük Excavations
Aşıklı Höyük is located in Turkey
Aşıklı Höyük
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Aşıklı Höyük is located in Near East
Aşıklı Höyük
Aşıklı Höyük (Near East)
LocationAksaray Province, Turkey
Coordinates38°20′56″N 34°13′48″E / 38.34889°N 34.23000°E / 38.34889; 34.23000
TypeSettlement
History
Founded8,200 BC
PeriodsPre-Pottery Neolithic
Panorama made from top of the mound, facing north-west

Aşıklı Höyük is a settlement mound located nearly 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of Kızılkaya village on the bank of the Melendiz brook, and 25 km (16 mi) southeast of Aksaray, Turkey. Aşıklı Höyük is located in an area covered by the volcanic tuff of central Cappadocia, in Aksaray Province. The archaeological site of Aşıklı Höyük was first settled in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, around 8,200 BC.[1]

It is situated 1,119.5 metres (3,673 ft) above sea level, a little higher than the region's average of c. 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). The site itself is about 4 hectares (9.9 acres),[2] considerably smaller than the closely situated site of Çatalhöyük (13 ha (32 acres)).[3][4] The surrounding landscape is formed by erosion of river valleys into tuff deposits. The Melendiz Valley, where the Aşıklı Höyük is located, constitutes a favourable, fertile, and diverse habitat. The proximity to an obsidian source did become the base of a trade with the material supplying areas as far away as today's Cyprus and Iraq.[2][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NERNSA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Esin, U., and S. Harmankaya. 1999. "Aşıklı". In Neolithic in Turkey: the cradle of civilization, edited by M. Özdoğan and N. Başgelen. Istanbul: Arkeoloji Ve Sanat Yayinlari.
  3. ^ Hodder, I. 1996. On the surface: Çatalhöyük 1993–95, Monograph No 22. Ankara: McDonald Institute Monographs and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.
  4. ^ Hodder, I., and C. Cessford. 2004. "Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük". American Antiquity 69 (1):17–40.
  5. ^ Düring, B. S. 2006. "Constructing communities: clustered neighbourhood settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic ca. 8500–5500 Cal. BC", Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden.