Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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Site Number | 8 |
GPS | True |
Name | KM 8 |
Site Name | Ömerağahöyük |
Description | Ömerağahöyük |
Survey Date | 1993-09-27 |
Survey Year | 1993 |
Collectors (Initials) | All |
Map sheet no. | 37SCB |
Grid Location EW | 174.0 |
Grid Location NS | 362.0 |
Height | 9.0 |
Local Landmarks | Karakıirnak canal, 1500M. N. to rail line Çoban Tepe house road divides, |
Setting | In rolling hills |
Site Description | Stony mound surrounded by plowed fields,some natural rock included in height of site, burial ground robbed out stone boxes on northeast. |
Collection Comments | Best example of Neolithic site, poorly mixed heavy grit (large air spaces in neck) and chaff temper, spottily preserved for the most part. Open necked jars and bowls. Best example of an Early Neolithic site. Amuq A like assemblage but a bit more sophisticated one painted red bowls interior, rims added on to vessel and pinched leaving a small ridge. Some finely red burnished ware, one with light red paint interior. |
Collection Summary | Sherd count Flint count Bracelets Ground Stone |
Flint count | 18 |
Handles count | 6 |
Neolithic note | Coarse Simple most with burnished red-brown slip, some dark face burnished, one incised// red wash, piece of punctate incised//(CE has it listed in her 12-02 diss revisions as positive attribution) |
Early Bronze Age plain note | fine ware |
Medieval note | Rope impressed// yes, Islamic (SC 9-98) //Don Whitcomb found a couple sherds of Islamic period in 2001. |
Subregion | Central Valley |
Neolithic | True |
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 | True |
Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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Creator
Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms) |
Elizabeth Carter
Vocabulary: Domuztepe Excavations |
Subject
Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms) |
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Suggested Citation
Elizabeth Carter. (2024) "KM 8 from Asia/Turkey/Kahramanmaraş Survey Area". In Kahramanmaraş Survey. Elizabeth Carter (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/d32d7295-b7f5-4f7c-982c-53a2df00ae37>
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