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Çaltilar |
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Mound |
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Altitude:
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1750 m |
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Region:
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Mediterranean |
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Mugla |
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Fethiye |
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Village:
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Çaltilar |
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Survey |
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| The mound lies east-southeast of Mugla; northeast of Fethiye; 30 km northwest of Elmali; near Çaltilar village (Probably at the plain south of the village). It was discovered during the Survey; which was made east of the ancient city of Balboura; at the upper drainage areas of Karaculka and Küçüklü Rivers; conducted by J.J. Coulton in 1988. Medium-sized mound is located on a watery area. the area yielded finds dating between Chalcolithic and Iron Age [Momigliano et al. 2010:43]. Late Chalcolithic and EBA materials are mostly found in the Northeast section. Some EBA material; red burnished and white decorated ceramic is very similar to samples from Elmalı V and VI. More materials are gathered on 2nd Millennium BC settlement during the survey carried out in 2009. Most of the findings are pieces of large, thick-rimmed vessels with carination. When other findings are considered, chert and flint stone tools are found but no obsidian pieces other than those found last year. Considerable amount of burnt adobe, debris, pieces of ceramic from Iron Age that are turned into debris suggest that industrial activities including metallurgy and ceramics production take part in Çaltılar during the last period [Momigliano et al. 2011: 225-228]. |
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