Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9
Period Neolithic·Regional culture Mideast-Tell·🇹🇷 Turkey Region 9, Turkey
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About Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9
Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 in Turkey Region 9, Turkey is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
Why it mattersKey Regional culture Mideast-Tell tell with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology and phasing
- 02Collapse cause
Theories
- 01Defensive stronghold
- 02Observatory
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. 800 CE
- Period
- Period Neolithic
- Culture
- Regional culture Mideast-Tell
- Purpose
- tell ritual/settlement purpose for Mideast-Tell
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1934
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 800 CE
Initial construction / first occupation at Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9
c. 800 CE major extension
Major expansion / refurbishment at Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9
On the ground
Structures & features
52.5339° N · 115.7534° E · 1207 m · 4 mapped features
Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — Principal Palace
palacepalace at Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — outlier feature
52.5325° N · 115.7535° EQuarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — Temple Annex 2
templetemple at Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — outlier feature
52.5354° N · 115.7553° EQuarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — Gate Annex 3
gategate at Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — primary structure
52.5343° N · 115.7545° EQuarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — Eastern Palace
palacepalace at Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 — subsidiary complex
52.5340° N · 115.7543° E