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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
The articles and guides here connect case studies with methods: layers and dating, critical reading, pottery, coins, inscriptions and raw materials. Choose a question, then follow the sources and related reading. Checking an abstract is never presented as reviewing an entire paper.
The Barcın Höyük excavation project, in the Yenişehir Valley in Bursa, investigates the settlement remains of an early farming community of the seventh millennium BC. What the project page says, and how its broad date maps onto the timeline.
The University of Liverpool describes Boncuklu Höyük, near Konya, as a 10,500-year-old village and dates its mud-brick houses to 8500 BC/BCE. What the project page tells us, and what it leaves unsaid about the site itself.
UNESCO dates the eighteen Neolithic levels of Çatalhöyük's East Mound to 7400-6200 BC, while the Met's timeline gives Çatalhöyük about 6900-6500 BCE. What each source says, and why the site does not choose between them.
According to UNESCO, the megalithic structures of Göbekli Tepe were erected by hunter-gatherers between 9,600 and 8,200 BCE. What the source states about the builders and the T-shaped pillars, and what it offers only as a suggestion.
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