Karavelyan excavations within the Ilısu project
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2019
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Ankara : Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
Karavelyan is located in the Upper Tigris valley. The site is ca. 150 km to the north of the
modern Turkish-Syrian border and on the right bank of the Tigris River. The site is within the flooding
zone of the Ilısu Dam to be constructed on the Tigris River. The excavations started in 2009 and were
completed in 2012. The site consists of two individual settlements situated 200 m apart. The eastern one,
known as Hınçıka, was an Assyrian settlement. Karavelyan, to the west, is a mono-period site only inhabited
during the Early Halafian. The archaeological deposit at Karavelyan are approximately one metre deep and
contain two building levels. The architecture is very poorly preserved. The top-most level 1 yielded rectangular buildings of pisé walls without foundation while the second layer contained rectangular architecture
with the second foundations. In this article, for the first time, Karavelyan is extensively introduced into the
world of science.
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Halaf, Late Neolithi, Ilısu Project