Hacılar Mound

thumb|Statuette from Hacilar (5250-5000 BC), National Archaeological Museum (Florence) Hacilar, or Hacılar Höyük ("Hacilar Mound"), is an early human settlement in southwestern Turkey, 23 km south of present-day Burdur. It has been dated back 7040 BC at its earliest stage of development. Archaeological remains indicate that the site was abandoned and reoccupied on more than one occasion in its history.

== Archaeological History == thumb|Terracotta vase painted in red from Haçilar. Late Neolithic – early Chalcolithic (late 6th – beginning of the 5th millennium BC). Rome, National Museum of Oriental Art (Palazzo Brancaccio) Hacilar lived and died in prehistory. What remained of Hacilar became a mound on the plain and remained so until 1956. It was in this year that a local teacher showed the mound to British archaeologist James Mellaart. In 1957 the excavation of Hacilar began under Mellaart's direction and continued until 1960. The artifacts recovered during this excavation are currently on display at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.