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Adir Höyük ve Kale |
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Mound |
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Altitude:
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1680 m |
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Region:
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Eastern Anatolia |
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Province:
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Van |
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District:
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Merkez |
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Village:
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Yayliyaka |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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Middle Iron Age |
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| It is situated southwest of Yayliyaka (Adir) Village; about 47 km north; northwest of Van Province. To the north of it is the road to the village of Amik (Yesilsu). The fortress and the mound are within the borders of the village. The mound is 1680 m high above the sea level, extending in the east-west direction. It measures 164 m in lenght and 24 m in height. Located on an andesite rock, the eastern part of the mound was deeply and widely carved as a result of erosion by the waters of Akdere flowing from south to north. The mound looks as if it consists of two hills. The most important feature of the mound is the presence of fortification and residence walls made of large andesite blocks above the mudbrick structures and towards the upper part of the mound. The stones used for the fortifications were elobarately dressed. No such sound walls are observed in Eastern Anatolia. There are residential remains of a civil settlement which spreaded onto a very large area in the southern and southwestern sections of the mound. No sketch plan is available as the foundations of the houses have been all demolished. The ceramics collected from the fortress and the mound indicate that the site had been inhabited from the First Bronze Age through the Middle Age. The fortress and other architectural structures erected on the mound during the reign of the Kingdom of Urartu aimed to protect the dams and irrigation channels as well as organizing maintainance and repair works in such a very large area. A majority of the ceramics collected from the surface are dated to the 7th Millennium BC. |
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