Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore
Gusır Höyük
PPN (9300–8500 BCE)·PPN (Upper Tigris)·🇹🇷 Siirt Province, Botan River, Turkey
About
About Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore
Siirt mound excavated by Karul 2016–, PPN village with anthropomorphic stele, early wheat and ritual bench. Recorded context — Period: PPN (9300–8500 BCE); Culture: PPN (Upper Tigris); Field status: excavated; Materials: limestone, mudbrick; Condition: ruins — Ilısu reservoir fringe.
Why it mattersKey PPN (Upper Tigris) tell with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Astronomical alignment
- 02Function of enclosure
Theories
- 01Seasonal gathering
- 02Ceremonial centre
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 9300 BCE
- Period
- PPN (9300–8500 BCE)
- Culture
- PPN (Upper Tigris)
- Purpose
- Upper Tigris first farming village with 5 m decorated stele and press floors
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1867
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 200 CE major extension
Major expansion / refurbishment at Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore
c. 9300 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore
1890 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore
On the ground
Structures & features
38.0120° N · 41.7920° E · 555 m · 3 mapped features
- Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore — Principal Palacepalacepalace at Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore — hydraulic feature38.0138° N · 41.7923° E
- Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore — Northern Templetempletemple at Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore — outlier feature38.0104° N · 41.7901° E
- Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore — Southern Gategategate at Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore — primary structure38.0122° N · 41.7939° E