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Location

  • Türkiye, Kayışlar
  • geo:38.855717,27.709209

Period or year

  • -3500~ / -13xx

Classification

  • rural
  • Visible

Kayışlar Höyük [ Çayırlar]

data access 70407

Kayışlar Höyük is a mound locate approximately 900 meters north of Kayışlar Village, northeast of Manisa Province. It is locally known as Çayırlar, The hill measures 80 x 50 meters and its height is 3-4 meters. It is a small and flat mound with these dimensions.

A field survey was carried out by David French in 1959. French noted that there was a swamp in the west of the hill and a village road passed from the east. The earliest ceramic finds date back to the late Chalcolithic period. Troy I type wares, red burnished, gray-black burnished, black burnished, red slipped Early Bronze Age sherds were collected from the surface.

The site was probably continuously inhabited in the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age.

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2021-04-20) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/70407
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Kayışlar Höyük [ Çayırlar]. https://vici.org/vici/70407, accessed 2026-11-06.