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Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
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Neolithic to Ottoman (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Neolithic → EBA → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic → Roman
Cilician gateway lower town — Hittite sealings to Roman grid (Goldman 1934).
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Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian
Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.
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Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Three mounds (Canhasan I, II, III) spanning Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (c.6000–3000 BCE) on the south Konya Plain, bridging Çatalhöyük to Mersin-Yumuktepe.