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Site Number 18
Name KM 18
Site Name Büyükhöyük
Description Büyükhöyük
Survey Date 1993-09-29
Survey Year 1993
Collectors (Initials) All
Map sheet no. 37SCB
Grid Location EW 55.0
Grid Location NS 279.0
Height 18.0
Diameter 125.0
Site Size (2) 1.2271846303
Local Landmarks Circular cement reservoir d=c. 30 m. on top not far from Adana Rd.
Setting Salad greens to west, wheat cotton and sugar beet
Site Description Rock outcrop with small house and reservoir. Trees growing in furrows and appear to be part of reforestation effort. Possibly an island in the lake with thin skin of occupation, not much in the way of artificial deposit, but some.
Survey Conditions(include time spent on site) Trees and vegetation cover much of the site, perhaps reservoir also cut some away. General collection.
Collection Comments Cooking pot, thumb impressed tab handle, squared vessel with trapazoidal ledge handles, but inside rounded two egs. one in pink one in red buff wareg\\\T%………………………………………
Collection Summary Sherd count
Flint count 6
Handles count 4
Early Bronze Age plain note fine
Subregion Southwestern 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 False
Hellenistic, Roman False
Medieval False
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Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 18 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/9f3fdb2c-fcf7-480b-be7c-64b4c6f412fe>

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