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Middle Bronze Age

During the excavations carried out in the southern part of the plain of the mound, holes were unearthed that belonged to tree plantations that formed the southern and eastern walls of a Middle Bronze Age building. The walls of this structure were formed by vertically filling the trees and branches with mud mixed with straw (wattle and daub technique). During the excavations carried out inside the building, fragments of the destroyed plastered floor were identified in the western part. Among the few small finds related to the building are a spindle whorl and a terracotta weight, a bone awl, flint blades, a stone axe, a pestle, a hammer, a whetstone and a grindstone. Important for the dating of this structure are red and reddish buff-lined bowls with inwardly slanting rims and outwardly thickened rims, and outwardly slanted rims and necked jars with inward-outwardly thickened rims, which constitute the characteristic ceramic group of the period, are important in terms of the dating of this structure. Similar forms of these shapes are found in a wide geographical area, including Central Anatolia, Western Anatolia and the Mediterranean region, during the Middle Bronze Age.

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Middle Bronze Age structure located in the south of the hill plain of Çaltılar Höyük

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Middle Bronze Age structure located in the south of the hill plain of Çaltılar Höyük

During the researches carried out in the northern part of the plain of the mound, it was found out that the Middle Bronze Age settlement was completely excavated and destroyed by the inhabitants of the Archaic period.

Çaltılar Höyük Arkeolojik Kazısı Resmi Sitesi

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