Niğde Kınık Höyük (N-KH) . Kınık Höyük was occupied from the Early Bronze Age through the Medieval Period. Originally the Hittite and Neo-Hittite settlement in Southern Cappadocia. The Early Bronze Age Anatolian Metallic ware were also found in pit fills.In debris were discovered the polished red slip drinking cup dating to the Old Assyrian period. There are late Achaemenid-early Hellenistic Period remains as well. One of the most interesting finds has been a group of eagle stone statues buried in dug pits dates to the Hellenistic period.The site bandoned at the end of the.first century BC and later reoccupied in the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries.
See:
- Kınık Höyük Archaeological Project-http://www.kinikhoyuk.org/progetto.html
- Nancy Highcock at all, Kınık Höyük, Niğde. A New Archaeological Project in Southern Cappadocia in: Darbandi, S. M. and A. Zournatzi (ed.), Ancient Greece and ancient Iran: cross-cultural encounters ; 1. international conference, Athens, 11 - 13 November 2006 ; Ancient Greece and ancient Iran (Athens 2008)
- Lorenzo D’Alfonso, Maria E. Gorrini, Clelia Mora, Archaeological Excavations at Kinik Höyük, Niğde, Preliminary Report of the third Campaign (2013), Atheneum. Studi Periodici di Letteratura e Storia dell’Antichita, Pavia 2014, pp.565ff
- http://isaw.nyu.edu/news/hellenistic-era-temple-found-at-isaws-excavation-at-kinik-hoyuk
- N.A. HIGHCOCK - B. YOLAC ¸ AN - L. D’ALFONSO, Archaeological Excavations at Nig˘de-Ki . ni . k Ho¨yu¨k. Campaigns 2018-2019