Site inhabited from Late Neolithic / Early Chalcolithic right up to the end of the Byzantine period. In the earlier layer was unearthed a megaron-like structures as seen in Troy and other Western Anatolian Early Bronze Age architecture. Hacimusalar was discovered in 1949 by M.S.F. Hood and M. Mellink.
Sources:
- http://arkeo.bilkent.edu.tr/haci.html
- Pedar W. Foss, The Hacımusalar Project Regional Survey:landscape andsettlement investigationsin the Elmalı Basin - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.691.8455&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- George E. Bean, Lycian Turkey: An Archaeological Guide, London John Murray Publishers Ltd 1989, pp. 156