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Site Number 159
Name KM 159
GPS True
Description Aydınkabak
Site Name Aydınkabak
Survey Date 1994-08-30
Survey Year 1994
Collectors (Initials) EC,HT,GM,MK,LB
Map sheet no. N37-b1
Grid Location EW 46.0
Grid Location NS 430.0
Height 8.0
Diameter 180.0
Site Size (2) 2.5446900494
Local Landmarks Village to ne; stone garden walls, road to spring at n.w. edge, Bacak T; many vegetable gardens
Site Description Flat stony site with spread out collection, low elevation with tree on top, possibly both early and late occupation,photo 32 from w. to e.
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Good, general
Collection Comments Could be a trace of early but mostly late very little rope impressed Medieval jar forms, straight sided open forms= new feature, many handles, some sherds ribbed cooking pot, many huge pithoi rims and ribbed storage jar sherds; interesting applied sherd, might be a person, but probably a decortative element
Collection Summary Sherd count Flint count
Flint count 7
Obsidian count 2
Handles count 18
Ubaid note Ubaid,? plus some flint// SC (9-98) did not note this//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution)
Hellenistic Late Roman note SC 9-98 noted some Roman material??
Medieval note pie crust rim, rope impressed waster, many pithoi of heavy grit tempered red ware, plate with interior fishbone incision
Note about Unknown present
Subregion Nothern Valley
Neolithic False
Halaf, Ubaid, Uruk True
Chalcolithic False
Early Bronze False
Early Bronze, Middle Bronze False
Middle Bronze False
Late Bronze False
Iron Age False
Hellenistic, Roman True
Medieval True
km-159.pdf
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 159 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/32f09c48-7251-428b-a154-5ca54cc0eb96>

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