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Settlements tagged “copper”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Köşk Höyük

Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic

Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Çayönü Tepesi

PPNA to Late PPNB / Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris Neolithic

Neolithic village (8300–5800 BCE) on the upper Tigris near Ergani, sequence spanning PPNA to Pottery Neolithic with world-firsts: earliest pig domestication evidence, early copper working (native…