Suberde (Göğrem Su Göleti)
Suberde · Süberde · Suberde Höyük · Seydişehir Suberde
Aceramic Neolithic to Early Pottery Neolithic·Central/West Anatolian Neolithic·🇹🇷 Konya Province, Seydişehir – Lake Suğla basin, Turkey
About
About Suberde (Göğrem Su Göleti)
Aceramic Neolithic lakeside tell (c.7500–6500 BCE) on terrace of Lake Suğla near Karadağ, excavated 1965–71 by Jacques Bordaz. Semi-subterranean rectangular timber-and-reed houses with plastered floors, obsidian and chert pressed blades, ground stone and plastered bull bucrania anticipating Çatalhöyük symbol. Lake-edge forager-herder village with cattle and sheep, showing western Konya Plain Neolithization distinct from Konya centre.
Why it mattersWestern Konya late Aceramic; bull bucranium prefigures Çatalhöyük; lake-edge adaptation.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Relation to Çatalhöyük symbolism transmission?
- 02Lake level fluctuations driving abandonment
Theories
- 01West-Anatolian lake villages seeded later Hacilar-Kuruçay
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.7500–6500 BCE Aceramic/ early Ceramic Neolithic
- Period
- Aceramic Neolithic to Early Pottery Neolithic
- Culture
- Central/West Anatolian Neolithic
- Builders
- Lake Suğla villagers
- Purpose
- Lakeside farming-herding village with bull symbolism
- Abandoned
- c.6500 BCE (lake transgression?)
- Rediscovered
- 1965 Bordaz survey; 1965–71 excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
1965
Bordaz trench opens
c.7000 BCE
Plastered bucrania houses
On the ground
Structures & features
37.3830° N · 32.0070° E · 1130 m · 3 mapped features
Sunken House 2
houseRectangular pisé house with plastered bench and bucranium
37.3831° N · 32.0071° ELake terrace midden
middenShell and bone midden on lacustrine shore
37.3829° N · 32.0069° EObsidian blade cache
depositPressure-flaked Göllü Dağ blades
37.3830° N · 32.0070° E