Norsun Tepe, Hissarlik, Turkey

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Norsun Tepe, Hissarlik, Turkey









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Norsuntepe is a Tell in Turkey , about 25 km from Elazig. It is now in the middle of the Keban dam , so little more than an island in the lake is left. The crown of the hill, had an area of approximately 500 m to 300 m, within which settlement traces were detectable.

Norsuntepe was excavated in 1968 by the German Archaeological Institute under the direction of the Heidelberg professor of Prehistory and Early History Harald Hauptmann . Had to be finished by 1974 because of the construction of the Keban Dam works and rising water level.

In the excavations 40 settlement layers could be identified from the late Chalcolithic through all phases of the Bronze Age through to a Urartian settlement in the Iron Age ranged. After the Iron
Age, which also supplied several richly furnished graves, the settlement was abandoned and destroyed by fire.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%C5%9Funtepe