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[Penny]

A team of archaeologists working at the Ulucak tumulus, located in İzmir's Kemalpaşa district, have unearthed a Neolithic settlement area dating back some 8,400 years, an archaeologist announced last week.
Archaeologist Fulya Dedeoğlu of Ege University told the Doğan News Agency that excavations had been under way in the area since 1995.
She said they believed their latest discovery could be the oldest settlement dating from the Neolithic period unearthed to date and added that further excavations on the lower levels could reveal even older remains.
Workshops, storage facilities and furnaces are among the most significant structures unearthed in the tumulus, estimated to date back to 6,400 B.C., said Dedeoğlu, adding that mother goddess figures and pieces of ceramics were also discovered.
Dedeoğlu said they were lucky that they did not encounter water while excavating the area. “In most of the excavation areas in the Aegean region, underground water covers the area and hinders excavations. We were lucky that it didn't happen here,” she explained.

[KangalKid]

That really is old for Neolithic, i studied archaeology for a while and the medieranean neolithic period does go back earlier than the western european age due to the climatic changes and the uk was in the ice age still at 8000BC, but still 8000BC is or has to be absolutely the earliest stage even on eastern european standards .
im off to see if i can find anything on it
thanks for sharing that with us

[Ken]

I read that story as well, that's right here in Izmir! They're also excavating the ancient city of Smyrna, which is also right here, Smyrna was one of the seven churches of Revelation as you probably know. I've been told that a man was excavating to build a house in Selcuk, near Ephesus, and had an archaelogical find of some kind. Now the poor guy can't build his house since the government put a stop to any digging until they get professionals to do it. Makes me wonder about all the stuff they haven't found yet, and what we're sitting on top of now!

[Penny]

I'd better not dig too deep in my garden then! as there are a lot of sites around here left untouched by human hands for centuries.
The only thing I know, I have running through my garden is the main water pipe, which a tractor broke after deciding to take a trip across it!

Penny

[KangalKid]

Ben the exact same law in the UK applies,
Iwatch an argaeological programm and on there was a man who bought a plot of land to build a house and once the builders moved in they unearthed several saxon graves and building had to stop immediately.
The law states that any site unearthed has to be professionally researched and documented and excavated and he the land owner is responsible for the excavation costs which he could not afford and so building stopped i think for 8yrs. He raised the money to buy the land by re-mortaging on his current house which he was going to sell once the new house was built.
He lost his house, his wife and became bankrupt and absolutely suicidal and then this tv programme stepped in and as they were professional archaeologists and did the dig for nothing in order to make the programme.

so Penny don't tell anyone about your water pipe otherwise the authorities might believe its Neolithic and dig up your whole garden tee hee !!!

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