Historical place profile

Kurban Höyük

Site in eastern Anatolia inhabited from the Neolithic-Middle Bronze Age. The site was excavated in the early 1980s prior to being inundated by the construction of the Atatürk Dam in 1990.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:916396910
Catalogue ID
pleiades:916396910
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
37.504341, 38.517864
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Site in eastern Anatolia inhabited from the Neolithic-Middle Bronze Age. The site was excavated in the early 1980s prior to being inundated by the construction of the Atatürk Dam in 1990.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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