Çayönü (Neolithic Age)

Turkey / Diyarbakir / Ergani /
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Çayönü is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey inhabited around 7200 to 6600 BC. It is located forty kilometres north-west of Diyarbakır, at the foot of the Taurus mountains. It lies near the Boğazçay, a tributary of the upper Tigris River and the Bestakot, an intermittent stream

The first excavations were conducted by Robert John Braidwood between 1964 and 1978, and later between 1985 and 1991. The settlement covers the periods of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), and the Pottery Neolithic (PN) www.facebook.com/cayonukazilari/ mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/anci... www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/kap_a/advanced/ta_1_...
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Coordinates:   38°13'6"N   39°43'30"E
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