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Kinik |
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Type:
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Mound |
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Altitude:
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785 m |
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Region:
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Marmara |
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Province:
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Bilecik |
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District:
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Pazaryeri |
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Village:
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Kinik |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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Middle Late |
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| Location: The mound is located southwest of the centrum of Bilecik; directly 5 km northwest of Pazaryeri District. It is at the junction of Kinik Village road and the highway; on the right and 300 m from the village. |
| Geography and Environment: It is a broad and shallow mound; 4 m in height and 150 m in diameter. Sorgun Stream flows from the southeast of it. Its surroundings are being cultivated in the present. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: It is discovered in 1990; during the investigations in the area between Bozhöyük and Pazaryeri as a part of the surveys conducted in the provinces of Kütahya; Bilecik; and Eskisehir. |
| Stratigraphy: The stratigraphy of the mound is estimated due to the surface finds. EBA 1 and a few 2nd Millennium sherds are recovered east of the mound and Middle Chalcolithic Age finds from the west. Few Late Chalcolithic Age finds with Beycesultan 1 and 2 characteristics are collected from the surface. |
| Small Finds: Pottery: Efe has especially analysed the local Middle Chalcolithic Age traditions together with the finds from the mound [Efe 1993b:21-23]. The dominant group in the assemblage is the Kinik sand-tempered ware which is sand and grit-tempered and generally red slipped and burnished. The ware has two variants: one; red slipped or non-slipped; well burnished and hard-fired; the other; brown/black colored; matt or slightly glossy burnished. There are also a few brown burnished ware sherds resembling those from Aslanapa and are claimed to be contemporary. Open bowls and S-profile bowls are the vessel forms that could be derived from the few rim-sherds. |
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| Interpretation and Dating: The Middle Chalcolithic Age potsherds of Kinik display close paralles with Vinca pottery of Southeastern Europe recovered from Ilipinar; Kanlitas; and Orman Fidanligi. Efe concludes that this ware seems to be distributed in the broad area from the south of Kütahya to the shores of Marmara Sea. |
