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Kinik |
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Type:
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Slope Settlement |
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Altitude:
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1070 m |
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Region:
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Black Sea |
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Province:
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Kastamonu |
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District:
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Devrekani |
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Village:
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Kinik |
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Investigation Method:
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Excavation |
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Period:
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Late |
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| Location: It is located on Delibeyoglu Ridge in the territory of the Kulaksizlar Dam; northwest of Kinik Village; 10 km northeast of Devrakani District and Kastamonu Province. |
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| Research and Excavation: The site was discovered in 1990 during the preparation of the dam construction project in the vicinity of Kinik and first known by the Hittite pottery. These finds were delivered to the museum and then studied by A. Çinaroglu. The site was excavated during 1994-97 in collaboration of the Kastamonu Museum and the University of Ankara under A. Çinaroglu [Çinaroglu-Genç 2004:355]. After five years of break the excavations restarted in 2002 and continued ever since. The site takes place in the registered archaeological sites list prepared by Ministry of Culture and Tourism. |
| Stratigraphy: The excavations carried out immediate north of the area where Hittite metallic ware uncovered in 1994. Three levels and a flat settlement containing their subphases were discovered. Since the bedrock was reached the stratigraphy numbered from ground to top. Level I; goes down to 4th millennium BC (dating to Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze I); Layer II has two phases (II-1 and II-2) and dated from second half of 3rd millennium BC to the beginning of 2nd millennium BC (dating to the end of the Early Bronze Age and transition to Middle Bronze) and in Level III there is an Iron Age settlement with several architectural phases [Çinaroglu-Çelik 2006:7;9; cat.une.edu.au/page/kinik]. |
| Small Finds: A different type of pottery was observed on the bedrock at the new excavation area; which located 80 m north of the main excavation area. In 2004 season the finds from this level uncover with architectural remains. Wall remains and plastered fireplaces were found. The handmade pottery which colors were changing brown to black matched with Ikiztepe Late Chalcolithic Age pottery and the Late Chalcolithic Age material from Kastamonu Museum. Also finds are handaxes; scrapers; borers and bone piercing tools [Çinaroglu-Çelik 2006:7-8]. |
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