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Aşıklı Höyük is a settlement mound located nearly 1 km south of Kızılkaya village on the bank of the Melendiz brook, and 25 kilometers south - east of Aksaray, Turkey. Aşıklı Höyük is located in an area covered by the volcanic tuff of central Cappadocia, in Aksaray Province. The archaeological site of Aşıklı Höyük was first settled in the Aceramic Neolithic period, around 8000 B.C. It is situated 1119.5 metres above sea level; a little higher than the regions average being ca. 1000 metres. The site itself is about 4 ha,〔Esin, U., and S. Harmankaya. 1999. Aşıklı. In Neolithic in Turkey: the cradle of civilization, edited by M. Özdoğan and N. Başgelen. Istanbul: Arkeoloji Ve Sanat Yayinlari.〕 considerably smaller than the closely situated site of Çatalhöyük (13 ha).〔Hodder, I. 1996. On the surface: Çatalhöyük 1993-95, Monograph No 22. Ankara: McDonald Institute Monographs and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.〕〔Hodder, I., and C. Cessford. 2004. Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük. American Antiquity 69 (1):17-40.〕 The surrounding landscape is formed by erosion of river valleys into tuff deposits. The Melendiz Valley, where the Aşıklı Höyük is located, constitutes a favourable, fertile, and diverse habitat. The proximity to an obsidian source did become the base of a trade with the material supplying areas as far away as today’s Cyprus and Iraq.〔〔Düring, B. S. 2006. Constructing communities: clustered neighbourhood settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic ca. 8500-5500 Cal. BC, Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden.〕 ==Site History== Aşıklı Höyük was first investigated by Professor Ian A. Todd when he visited the site in the summer of 1964. Todd emphasised the importance of the obsidian in the area, based on over 6000 obsidian pieces collected from the surface layer alone.〔Singh, P. 1974. Neolithic cultures of western Asia. London: Academic Press〕〔Todd, I. A. 1966. Aşıklı Höyük – A Protonelolithic Site in Central Anatolia. Anatolian Studies 16:139-163.〕 The site was classified as a ''medium sized'' mound and partly destroyed by the river situated next to it. On the basis of the lithics and animal bones located in the surface layers the site got known as a contemporary to the Palestine PPNB, which later got reinforced by C14 dates (based on five unstratified radiocarbon dates going from 7008 ± 130 to 6661 ± 108).〔Mellaart, J. 1975. The Neolithic of the Near East. London: Thames & Hudson.〕 The first comprehensive excavations took place relatively late: first when the government launched a plan that would result in the rise of the waters of the Mamasın Lake located close to Aşıklı Höyük, Professor Ufuk Esin (University of Istanbul) started the salvage excavations in 1989.〔Esin, U., E. Bıçakçı, M. Özbaşaran, N. Nalkan-Atlı, D. Berker, I. Yağmur, and A. Korkut-Atlı. 1991. Salvage excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia. Anatolica 17:123-174.〕 There have been altogether undertaken nine excavations to the year 2003; uncovering approximately 4200 m2 on the horizontal plain, making it one of the largest scale excavations in the region.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aşıklı Höyük」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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