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Balıklı

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From 8300 BCE to 7950 BCE

A central Anatolian Neolithic site with floor and wall burials and special skull treatment.

Modern Balıklı guide: changing counts in the 2024 and 2025 reports, with floor and wall burials. An entrance in one better-preserved building prevents universal claims of roof access
Modern Balıklı guide: changing counts in the 2024 and 2025 reports, with floor and wall burials. An entrance in one better-preserved building prevents universal claims of roof accessModern explanatory diagram by IL Archive · CC BY 4.0 · CC BYImage source

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About fourteen kilometres northeast of AşıklıAşıklı HöyükA Neolithic Cappadocian settlement with successive buildings and selected subfloor burials.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, the site is dated around 8300–7950 BCE in the 2025 report. The 2024 account reported 23 main-occupation burials; the 2025 account reported over 60 individuals. Each count must retain its excavation and publication context.[1][2]

Treatment includes subfloor and wall-niche burials, and three pigmented skulls near an early burial context. One better-preserved building has an entrance, revising earlier general claims about roof access. These finds do not identify one doctrine or prove ancestor worship. The drawing is modern, not an excavation plan.[1][2]

References and notes

  1. A. Nigel Goring-Morris et al. (2024). Variation in the development of Neolithic societies atop the Central Anatolian Plateau: recent results from Balıklı. Antiquity 98(401), 1163–1180. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.100. Site, dates, architecture, burials and discussion read. Reports 23 main-occupation burials, pigmented skulls and wall burials. The roof-access inference was revised by a better-preserved building in the 2025 report. Return to the text ↑
  2. Güneş Duru (2025). Balıklı: On the Edge of Time and Everything. Anatolian Research 32, 1–18. DOI: 10.26650/anar.32.1701248. Published 25 July 2025. PDF pp. 5–9 and 12–15, plus abstract: c.8300–7950 BCE, over 60 individuals, primary/secondary burials and an entrance in one better-preserved building. Aşıklı comparisons concern contemporary phases and excavated areas, not the whole site. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 11 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Balıklı», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/sites/balikli