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Places tagged “nigde province”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tepecik-Çiftlik

Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (c.9000–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic

Cappadocian Neolithic tells (7 m high, 2 ha) in the Melendiz plain below Hasan Dağı obsidian sources. Excavated since 20...

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Kestel–Göltepe Tin Mines

Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze (c.3200–1800 BCE) · EB Anatolian → Assyrian Colony period predecessors

Oldest tin mine (Kestel, 4500 m galleries, EBA) and its processing settlement Göltepe (8 ha) in the Bolkar Taurus, excav...