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Yumuktepe

Yumuktepe Shown within Turkey
Location	Mersin, Turkey
Region	Mediterranean Region
Coordinates	36°48′N 34°36′E / 36.800°N 34.600°E / 36.800; 34.600
Type	Settlement
History
Periods	Neolithic Age to Byzantine Empire

Yumuktepe, also known as Yümüktepe, is a tell (ruin mound) within the city borders of Mersin, Turkey. In 1936, the mound was on the outskirts of Mersin, but after a rapid increase of population, the mound was surrounded by the Toroslar municipality of Mersin.

History

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Excavations

Excavations took place between 1936 and 1938 by the British archaeologist John Garstang (1876–1956). He was the founder of the British Institute in Ankara,^[1] have revealed a Neolithic settlement which continued up to medieval ages. However, the excavations halted during World War II and some documents in the Liverpool University were lost after an air raid.^[2] After the war, John Garstang as well as Veli Sevin of Istanbul University and Isabella Caneva^[3] of Sapienza University of Rome continued the excavations.^[4]

References

Further reading

• The Chalcolithic at Mersin -Yumuktepe. Level XVI Reconsidered - 2019
• Caneva, Isabella, Giulio Palumbi, and Antonia Pasquino, "The Ubaid impact on the periphery: Mersin-Yumuktepe during the fifth millennium BC", Publications de l'Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes 27.1, pp. 353-389, 2012