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Incirlitepe |
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Type:
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Flat Settlement |
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Altitude:
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880 m |
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Region:
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Mediterranean |
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Province:
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Isparta |
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District:
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Gönen |
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Village:
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Gümüsgün |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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Ceramic |
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| Location: This site lies northwest of the city of Isparta; and southeast of the town of Keçiborlu. It is west of the Isparta-Burdur highway. |
| Geography and Environment: A 30x100 m area on the southern terrace of the Incirlikaya Rock outcrop; which faces the plain at the northern tip of Burdur Lake; yielded ceramics and other finds. The site has been called Incirlitepe after the local name for the place. Özsait has referred to the site as Incirli I; to avoid confusion with the nearby site of Incirli. Although the site faced much natural destruction and erosion in 1983; a thin layer of cultural material deposit still remains. The spring immediately beneath the rock-outcrop on which the site lies; must have served as a water source for the early settlers at this site. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: The first surveyor who discovered the site of Incirlitepe is E. Bostanci; who visited the site in 1959 after returning from his excavations in Antalya at the sites of Beldibi; Kumbucagi and Belbasi. Bostanci reports his surveys at Incirlitepe yielded obsidian and flint chipped stone tools which he has assigned to the Late Neolithic Period [Bostanci 1959:131]. In 1983; M. Özsait conducted a systematic and detailed surface survey at the site during his survey of the Lakes Region and the villages of Gölbasi and Koçtepe. |
| Stratigraphy: Neither Bostanci nor Özsait mention any other period at the site other than Late Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic. |
| Small Finds: Pottery: Özsait reports that he collected hand made fine sand and mica tempered; buff; brown; light brown ware with buff slip or painted decorations in red; beige and brown [Özsait 1991b:64-65]. Chipped Stone: The only information provided on the chipped stone tools is that both obsidian and flint was used as a raw material. |
| Remains: |
| Interpretation and Dating: The rock outcrop which faces Çorakova; the extension of the Keçiborlu Plain by Burdur Lake; may have served as a home for early hunter gatherer inhabitants during the transition from the Epipalaeolithic to the Neolithic Periods. This is one reason why the site should be re-researched in further detail. |
