Demircihöyük
Demircihöyük · Demircihoyuk · Demircihöyük (Eskisehir)
Early Bronze Age (c.3000–2300 BCE) with Phrygian/Classical caps·Northwestern Anatolian EBA → Phrygian·🇹🇷 Eskişehir Province, Upper Sakarya, Turkey
About
About Demircihöyük
Stratified Early Bronze Age mound (300 × 200 m, 12 m high) on the Porsuk upper Sakarya, excavated by Manfred Korfmann 1970s–80s. EBA I–III (c.3000–2300 BCE) fortified concentric settlement with radial houses and a cremation cemetery defined the northwestern Anatolian EBA sequence (Demircihöyük phases A–Q). EBA metalwork includes arsenical copper and early tin bronze. Later Phrygian and Classical levels cap the mound.
Why it mattersKey Eskişehir Province, Upper Sakarya sequence for Early Bronze Age (c.3000–2300 BCE) with Phrygian/Classical caps; fortified trade centre at sakarya–marmara corridor.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology of Demircihöyük relative to neighbouring centres?
Theories
- 01Regional centre hypothesis for Eskişehir Province
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- EBA Ia c.3000 BCE
- Period
- Early Bronze Age (c.3000–2300 BCE) with Phrygian/Classical caps
- Culture
- Northwestern Anatolian EBA → Phrygian
- Builders
- Northwestern Anatolian EBA communities
- Purpose
- Fortified trade centre at Sakarya–Marmara corridor
- Abandoned
- c. 1200 BCE
- Rediscovered
- 20th century survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
1960
Foundation/earliest horizon
1980
Major excavations
2020
Conservation/monitoring
On the ground
Structures & features
39.8400° N · 30.1200° E · 820 m · 2 mapped features
Concentric EBA fortification
fortificationRadial-walled settlement with bastioned enclosure
39.8402° N · 30.1203° ECremation urnfield
cemeteryEBA cemetery with urns and pithos graves outside wall
39.8398° N · 30.1197° E