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Location

  • Türkiye, Kutu
  • geo:40.545792,35.628288
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -4500 / unknown

Classification

  • vicus
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Oluz Höyük - Oluz Mound

data access 26084

Origin of tthe Oluz Höyük settlement dates back to 4500 BC. Early Bronze Age level  dates to the fourth millennium  yielded stone pieces of casting mold, spindle whorls and hand-shaped pottery pieces. Oluz Höyük iwas also an important Hittite settlement that  prooved  stone seal, bronze sickle, baked clay loom weight and pottery dates to the XV-XIII centuries BC..

Sources:

  1. https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluz_H%C3%B6y%C3%BCks
  2. Jak Yakar, Presumed Social Identity of the Occupants of Late Third MIllennium BC Alacahoyuk and Horoztepe "Royal Tombs"in: Journal of Archaeomythology 7: pp. 1–8 - https://www.academia.edu/9686868
  3. Şevket Dönmez, Aslıhan Yurtsever Beyazıt: “Oluz Höyük. A Multicultural Settlement in Pontic Cappadocia”, Amasya. Maid of Mountains (Ed. F. Özdem). İstanbul 2014: 51-71 - https://www.academia.edu/21888728/
  4.  Aslıhan Yurtsever Beyazıt, An Early Bronze Age Site in North-Central Anatolia: Oluz Höyük, TÜBA-AR 24/2019

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-03-21) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/26084
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Suggested citation: , E. , Oluz Höyük - Oluz Mound. https://vici.org/vici/26084, accessed 2026-05-23.