Deep History of Anatolia: Communities, Kingdoms, and Imperial Crossroads
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Aşıklı Höyük and Cappadocian early sedentism

Aşıklı Höyük

A long-lived Cappadocian settlement documents mudbrick households, food production, craft, burial, and changing relationships with sheep and goats.

Early Neolithic settlement, household, subsistence, and animal-management context Approximately 8200-7400 BCE Architecture, stratigraphy, plant and animal remains, burials, tools, obsidian, radiocarbon dating, and household archaeology Aşıklı Höyük excavation and visitor context; a settlement reference point, not a cultural or ancestry boundary
Aperçu

Éléments probants, chronologie, échelle communautaire, organisation politique et connexions

Paysages, mobilité, échange, réseaux impériales et connexions régionales

River, volcanic uplands, obsidian sources, grazing, plants, and cultivated areas connected settlement life to broader Cappadocian landscapes.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Households and community-scale cooperation organized construction, subsistence, exchange, and ritual; no centralized ethnic state is demonstrated.

Contextes impériales, religieuxs, de patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Turkish institutions and archaeological teams steward the site; material evidence cannot assign living identity or descent.

Primary scale households and neighborhood practices

The evidence does not establish one centralized polity.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S2]
Key resource Cappadocian obsidian

Exchange links do not identify one ethnicity or language.

Reviewed 2026 [S2] [S3]
Interpretive limit no single farming origin

Cultivation and herding changed regionally and over time.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Settlement life develops

    Communities established durable buildings and repeated household practices.

  2. Animal management changes

    Faunal evidence tracks evolving human-animal relations rather than a single domestication event.

  3. Households rebuild and reorganize

    Architectural sequences reveal change within settlement life.

  4. Occupation ends

    Settlement abandonment cannot by itself demonstrate population replacement.

Culture et langue

Foyers, agriculture, pastoralisme, artisanat, travail, langue, croyances et mobilité

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • No locally written language corpus

Famille linguistique: Unknown from Neolithic archaeology

Dense mudbrick household sequences

Changing sheep and goat management

Obsidian craft and regional connections

Palaces, monuments, inscriptions, temples, churches, elite tombs, and famous authors are more visible than women, children, farmers, herders, miners, craftspeople, migrants, captives, enslaved or dependent people, and rural households. Evidence gaps must not be filled with ethnic purity, nationalist continuity, foreign-builder, lost-civilization, or simple population-replacement narratives.

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  1. C1

    Türkiye World Heritage properties

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · National heritage-property register · Current record

  2. C2

    Karain Cave

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted Palaeolithic heritage record · 1994; current record

  3. C3

    Göbekli Tepe

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International Neolithic heritage record · 2018; current record

  4. C4

    Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International settlement heritage record · 2012; current record

  5. C5

    Kültepe-Kanesh

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted archaeological and archive heritage record · 2014; current record

  6. C6

    Hattusha: the Hittite Capital

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International Bronze Age heritage record · 1986; current record

  7. C7

    Gordion

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological landscape record · 2023; current record

  8. C8

    Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International Iron Age urban and funerary heritage record · 2025; current record

  9. C9

    Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International multi-period urban heritage record · 2014; current record

  10. C10

    Aphrodisias

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International civic and archaeological heritage record · 2017; current record

  11. C11

    İznik

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted urban and religious heritage record · 2014; current record

  12. C12

    Anatolian Civilizations collections

    Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism · Public museum and heritage resource · Current museum resource

  13. S1

    Aşıklı Höyük

    Türkiye Culture Portal · Public heritage resource · Current resource

  14. S2

    Aşıklı Höyük Research Project

    Aşıklı Höyük Research Project · Accountable archaeological project · Current project resource

  15. S3

    Anatolian Archaeology

    British Institute at Ankara · Accountable regional research resource · Current series

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Revisión editorial: 6 août 2026