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Site Number 58
Name KM 58
Description Pınarhöyük
Site Name Pınarhöyük
Map sheet no. 37SCB
Grid Location EW 199.0
Grid Location NS 405.0
Height 10.0
Diameter 100.0
Site Size (2) 0.7853981634
Local Landmarks Village covers site, sign marks from main road
Setting Agricultural
Site Description Conical mound with terraces, virtually destroyed. Near cemetery a vegetable garden has sherds, cemetery said to have produced sherds but none seen now. Lower town? collected separately in pepper field on north side of site, give separate number (59). Villag ers at this site have tons of stuff, bracelets, coins, and so forth. (2-2003 per EFC)
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Terrible, mostly from present-day garbage dumps
Collection Comments Only 2 bags of 5 found
Collection Summary Coins Sherd count Ground Stone
Early Bronze Age decorated note Cooking pot
Iron Age note FIB's// yes, a few IA candidates and 1 poss Chalco-type (but grotty) looking platter, but nothing really conclusive except (LDS 9-98) poss NA ring collar jar // decent IA parallels found for a couple types (ls 6-00)
Medieval note glazed, plus cooking pot// earlyish Byzantine (Donald Whitcomb confirms Islamic - 2001)
Subregion Central Valley
Neolithic False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk False
Chalcolithic False
Early Bronze True
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze False
Middle Bronze False
Late Bronze False
Iron Age True
Hellenistic, Roman False
Medieval True
Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 58 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/138f3cd0-5c63-4244-af1a-a08d469c6502>

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