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| Location: It is located in an area where the Garzan River meanders, at the exit of the Garzan Valley, in the east of Besiri District of Batman Province. It is located within the area to be flooded due to Ilősu Dam. |
| Geography and Environment: The settlement is located in the Garzan Creek Valley, in the east of Diyarbakir Basin. Garzan Mountains rise in the northeast of the valley and the volcanic mountain Kirdagi is located to the southwest. The basaltic flows reach the vicinity of Sumaki Mound. The valley has risen due to tectonic reasons in the last five thousand years. The area where the settlement is located is covered with clayey soil. The streambed of Kani Husur, which flows from the north of the mound, was closed due to landslide but the river reopened its streambed. There are finds and stones which were abraded by running water, in the fills of the trenches located 27 m up to the present streambed. During the Holocene, the mean annual precipitation was 675-950 mm (two times more than that today) in two periods (6400 BC and 5600s BC). Between these two humid and hot periods there was a short dry and cold period. These are the periods in which the settlement is existed [Erim-Özdogan 2013:72]. |
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