Hacilar is an Early Proto - Neolithic settlement located ca 25 km west of Burdur. The houses in Hacılar are built of mudbrick on stone foundations and are white plastered. The interior of the houses is dparted by thin walls. The kitchen, which contains an oven, stove and grinding stones, has been taken out of the house. Entrance are unlike those in Çatalhöyük, they could be accessed through the doors on the wide facades of the houses, which opened to the courtyards. The settlement is divided by narrow streets.
in Hacilar the dead began to be buried rather in courtyards and cemeteries, but inside houses. The statuettes found in the excavations in Hacılar were also found in Çatalhöyük, as they were in Çatalhöyük. and child figurines. These differ from Çatalhöyük figurines in that they have large almond eyes.Hacilar was inhabited since the Proto-Neolithic Period. The earliest stage of habitation in Hacilar has been dated back to 8700 BC. The settlement was abandoned and reoccupied on more than few times in its history.
Sources:
- James Mellaart, Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, London 1965
- J. Mellaart, Excavations at Hacilar. Second Preliminary Report, 1958, Anatolian Studies 9, 1959, pp. 51-65
- J. Melaart, Excavations at Hacilar. Third Preliminary Report 1959”, Anatolian Studies 10,1960, pp. 83-104
- Timothy Darvill: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 181
- http://arkeolojihaber.net/tag/hacilar-hoyugu/
- TAY – Yerleşme Ayrıntıları-http://www.tayproject.org/TAYmaster.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=1077&html=masterEngDetail.html&layout=web
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey from Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empire, Sec. ed., Istanbul 1970, p.3