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Siirt | |||||
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| Location: Başur Höyük is located at the village of Aktaş, in the Botan Valley northwest of Siirt, in the area of the Ilısu Dam. |
| Geography and Environment: It lies beside Basur Stream that comes from Bitlis Valley and flow into Botan River in Bostancik Village. Occasional floods of Basur Stream are damaging western part of the mound [http://arkeoloji.ege.edu.tr/Protohistorya/Projeler/basur/basur.htm, 22.6.2011; 11:41]. Western territory of Van Lake Basin connects to vicinity of Siirt through Bitlis Valley. Accordingly it functions as a corridor of culture between Southeast and Eastern Anatolia. Botan and Bitlis valleys are natural routes that used frequently with regard to obsidian deposits on mount Nemrut in Neolithic Age. Surface finds pointed out the mound was started, as a settlement in Neolithic Age and its location on the route was an important fact of its attained dimensions. Wide arable land in the surroundings and the available topographical structure are seem to be the other facts that contribute the growth of the mound due to continuous settlement [http://arkeoloji.ege.edu.tr/Protohistorya/Projeler/basur/basur.htm, 22.6.2011;11:49]. The mound is 250x150 m in dimensions and 15 m in height [http://www.une.edu.au/cat/sites/basur.php, 22.6.2011;11:51]. |
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