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Yarikkaya |
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Type:
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Upland Settlement |
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Altitude:
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1010 m |
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Region:
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Central Anatolia |
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Province:
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Çorum |
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District:
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Bogazkale |
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Village:
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Merkez |
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Investigation Method:
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Excavation |
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Period:
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EBA I |
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| It lies on a plateau; about 1.5 -2 km north of Yazilikaya; 2 km northeast of Bogazkale (Bogazköy) District; southeast of Sungurlu; southwest of Çorum Province. The excavations carried out under H. Hauptmann in 1966-1967 yielded 5 layers dating to the Late Chalcolithic and the beginning of EBA I. The thickness of the cultural deposit is only 2 m. Haupmann identifies levels 1-3 as EBA Ia. The vast majority of the material is of black burnished ware. For Orthman; they are typical EBA I pottery of Central Anatolia and can be compared with the ones recovered at the 19-15th building levels of Alisar. Out of those upper levels; the second level revealed remains of two rectangular houses and a farm house accompanied with small side-buildings. The third level revealed constructions adjacent to each other. Those levels housing sherds and intact vessels of the ware emerged during the Late Chalcolithic Age should be evaluated in the Late Chalcolithic - EBA I settlements of Central Anatolia. |
| Location: The site is located on a calcareous rocky elevation; bearing the same name; lying southwest of the city of Çorum; southeast of Sungurlu; in between the villages of Bogazköy and Emirler Köyü; 1.6 km northeast of the village of Bogazkale; 3 km southeast of the village of Yekbas; and 2 km north of Yazilikaya. |
| Geography and Environment: The location called Yarikkaya is on the natural calcareous hills located high on the eastern slopes of a valley. A steep terrace lies below; descending to the plain. The location has been named thus; since the environs have the wavy outlook of much fragmented lands. In some publications it has been misspelled as Yarikaya. The cultural deposit is approximately 2 m thick. |
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