The earliest stratified settlement in Tarsus-Gözlükule dates back to the Neolithic Period.
See:
- http://www.tarsus.boun.edu.tr/
- http://www.tayproject.org/TAYmaster.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=1018&html=masterEngDetail.html&layout=web
- Giulio Palumbi, I. Caneva, A. Pasquino: The Ubaid Impact on the Periphery: Mersin-Yumuktepe during the Fifth Millennium BC, in C Marro eds. After the Ubaid: Interpreting Change from the Caucasus to Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization (4500-3500 BC), Varia Anatolica XXVII, Paris 2012, pp. 363, 367
- H. Goldman, Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus. From the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. Priceton University Press, 1956