Aşıklı Höyük located at the western edge of the Taurus Mountain Range, in central Anatolia in the nearnest of an obsidian sources and in fertile land was occupied from Aceramic Neolithic period, around 9000 BC.
See:
- Mihriban Özbaşaran, Re-starting at Aşıklı, In: Anatolia Antiqua, Tome XIX, 2011. pp. 27-37.
- http://www.asiklihoyuk.org/
- Gregory Mumford, Anth.245 Ppt. lecture-2: Neolithic Anatolia, Part-1: Background, Gobelki Tepe, Nevali Cori, and case study on Chatal Huyuk (Part-1: setting; social organization; subsistence; technology) (Anth.245: Mediterranean Area, by G. Mumford; Sept. 2020)
- Mary C. Stiner, Mihriban Özbaşaran, Güneş Duru: 2022. “Aşıklı Höyük: The Generative Evolution of a Central Anatolian PPN Settlement in Regional Context”. Journal of Archaeological Research 30: pp. 497-543.
- Güneş Duru, Mihriban Özbaşaran, Sera Yelözer, Melis Uzdurum, Ian Kuijt,
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages: Reconsidering the circular to rectangular architectural transition in the Central Anatolian Neolithic, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 64, 2021,