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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 31 August 2024)
Did these people invent the wheel? Maybe gears?
The archeological excavations being conducted by a 15-person team of
archeologists and scientists, led by Dr. Halil Tekin of Hacettepe University,
at the Domuztepe Mound in Türkoğlu, Kahramanmaraş province, are
continuing. The mound/settlement is from the Late Neolithic Period and
two skeletons of children, one a baby and the other thought to be a
child about 6-7 years of age, have been found in separate graves. The
skeletons are 7,600 years old (!).
Dr. Tekin explained that: "We found two graves, one that of a baby, next
to the foundations of a building just next to a structure resembling a
keyhole. This was quite a surprise for us because graves are found very
rarely at Domuztepe."
He also related that in this same region in recent years another team had
found around 40 skeletons in an area labeled the "death hole". Dr. Tekin
added that in the Late Neolithic Period the burials of babies and children
in or near a building was done to prevent cutting the children's link with
their homes.
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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 September 2024)
Archeologist, bottom left, trying to pin the tail.
At an excavation conducted at Karahantepe in Şanlıurfa province, the
figure of a running donkey carved into a stone from the Neolithic Period
11,000 years ago (!) has been discovered. There are more than 250
"dikiltaş" (erect stone monuments) at Karahantepe. Prof. Dr. Necmi Karul,
who is leading the excavations at 10 sites in Karahantepe, said that the
abodes there contained many grinding stones, indicating that daily life
went on within the settlement.
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