Değirmentepe or Değirmentepe Hüyük is an archaeological site which is located at 50 km north of the river Euphrates and at 24 km in the northeast of Malatya province in eastern Anatolia. It is now submerged in the reservoir area of the Karakaya and Atatürk dams. Rescue excavations were undertaken in under the supervision of Ufuk Esin of Istanbul University and interrupted in by flooding of the dams.
Değirmentepe or Değirmentepe Hüyük is an archaeological site which is located at 50 km north of the river Euphrates and at 24 km in the northeast of Malatya province in eastern Anatolia. It is now submerged in the reservoir area of the Karakaya and Atatürk dams. Rescue excavations were undertaken in under the supervision of Ufuk Esin of Istanbul University and interrupted in by flooding of the dams.
==History== Four archaeological layers whose dates are determined by techniques such as C14 and traces of fusion have been discovered in this mound: Middle Ages (late Roman-Byzantine period) Iron Age (1000 BCE) Bronze Age ancient I (Karaz or Khirbet Kerak culture, end of 4th millennium-beginning of 3rd millennium BCE) Chalcolithic Age (Ubaid period, second half of 5th millennium BCE.)
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