Remains: Interpretation and Dating: The excavations carried out at Resuloglu cemetery yielded important results about the social life and beliefs in death of a society which is capable of using the metal and raw material in the territory as well as dealing with agriculture and animal breeding [Yildirim-Ediz 2006:59]. It is assumed that the sarcophagi found in the east and southeast near the slope that faces the mound in 2006; which have dimensions outside the standard values (approximately 2 m in length); should be owned by the wealthy class [Yildirim-Ediz 2008:444]. According to a practice related to the burial food; where the bones are found besides the burials this custom which is coincided inside the burials of the princes and princesses at Alaca Höyük suggests that this was also implemented inside the public burials. This custom which identifies the votive ceremony and the burial food also involved also the cutting of the head and feet of the cattle to offer the dead before these were cooked; and the utilization of the rest during the ritual meals eaten for the dead. This way both the dead and the remaining people contributed the ritual meal [Yildirim-Ediz 2008:445]. The bronze pin that was unearthed inside a grave in 2008 suggests that those bend in a particular way, and were revealed below the chin were used for keeping the two sides of the collar together. Besides the hexagon-pyramide-headed-pin yielded at the east slope might be the forthcoming specimen among the ones dated to the 2nd Millennium BC in Central Black Sea Region [Yildirim-Ipek 2010:23].

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