Hacilar

Hacilar is an early human settlement in southwestern Turkey, 23 km south of present-day Burdur.

It was in this year that a local teacher showed the mound to British archaeologist James Mellaart.

Villagers engaged in the breeding of animals; bones of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and dogs were found.

[2] Numerous nude female figures, made of clay, are quite remarkable, and possibly represent some divinity.

The settlement of level I, dating after 5000 BC, differs significantly from the previous layers, so it is believed that there were newcomers who settled here.

Over time changes were made to the housing units; Querns, braziers and mortars appeared in the floors.

As Mellaart describes: 'The walls and floors were carefully plastered, laid on a pebble base.

Statuette from Hacilar (5250-5000 BC), National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Terracotta vase painted in red from Haçilar. Late Neolithic – early Chalcolithic (late 6th – beginning of the 5th millennium BC). Rome, National Museum of Oriental Art (Palazzo Brancaccio)