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Location:

  • Türkiye, Kutu
  • geo:40.545792,35.628288
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -4500 / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26084

Annotations

Origin of tthe Oluz Höyük settlement dates back to 4500 BC. Early Bronze Age level  dates to the fourth millennium  yielded stone pieces of casting mold, spindle whorls and hand-shaped pottery pieces. Oluz Höyük iwas also an important Hittite settlement that  prooved  stone seal, bronze sickle, baked clay loom weight and pottery dates to the XV-XIII centuries BC..

Sources:

  1. https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluz_H%C3%B6y%C3%BCks
  2. Jak Yakar, Presumed Social Identity of the Occupants of Late Third MIllennium BC Alacahoyuk and Horoztepe "Royal Tombs"in: Journal of Archaeomythology 7: pp. 1–8 - https://www.academia.edu/9686868
  3. Şevket Dönmez, Aslıhan Yurtsever Beyazıt: “Oluz Höyük. A Multicultural Settlement in Pontic Cappadocia”, Amasya. Maid of Mountains (Ed. F. Özdem). İstanbul 2014: 51-71 - https://www.academia.edu/21888728/
  4.  Aslıhan Yurtsever Beyazıt, An Early Bronze Age Site in North-Central Anatolia: Oluz Höyük, TÜBA-AR 24/2019

Nearby

Oluz Höyük

Persian fire temple.

Toklucak (5 km)

Milestone

Doğantepe (5 km)

Milestone


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