Köşk Höyük

Köşk Höyük is a tell northeast of Bahçeli, near Kemerhisar (the ancient city of Tyana) in the modern Niğde Province of Turkey.

The site is a limestone hill, which had already been turned into terraces for settlement purposes in the Neolithic.

The houses were joined together in blocks with a narrow, angular street network and a number of open areas running between them.

[4] The practice of plastered human skulls is widespread in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Levant, with examples known from Jericho and 'Ain Ghazal.

[6] Traces of cutting are absent, which means that the skulls were only removed after the flesh had decomposed, then plastered and painted.

[9] Layers I and II in Kösk Höyük show parallelisms with Çatalhöyük West, and with the Early Chalcolithic at Hacilar.

The finds from the site are on display in the Niğde Archaeological Museum, along with a reconstruction of a room from a house at Köşk Höyük.