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Other Archaeological Sites / The Neolithic of the Levant (500 Page Book Online) Tell Turlu Selected Excerpt on Tell Turlu
The Neolithic of the Levant (1978) Tell Turlu lies about 45 kilometres east of Gaziantep on the road to Nizip. It is a substantial mound with a long sequence of late prehistoric occupation as well as other material. Perrot sounded the site in 1962 and established that the earliest settlement of levels 1 and 2 had been founded on the natural subsoil. These levels were stratified beneath levels 3 and 4 from which Halaf pottery was recovered. The houses in levels 1 and 2 and also levels 3 to 6 above were circular and built of stone with silos nearby ... |
