Saturday, September 27 2025

Tag: Diyarbakır archaeology

Çayönü excavation, Neolithic burials Turkey, Early Bronze Age graves, Diyarbakır archaeology, Ergani mound, 11,000-year-old skeleton, Anatolian prehistory, Neolithic Anatolia, Bronze Age Anatolia, Çayönü Tepesi

5,000- and 11,000-Year-Old Burials Unearthed at Çayönü: Shedding Light on Neolithic and Bronze Age Anatolia

Archaeologists working at the Neolithic settlement mound of Çayönü, in Ergani district of Diyarbakır, Türkiye, have unearthed six ancient burials—five from the Early Bronze Age, about 5,000 years old, and one dating back 11,000 years to the Neolithic period. The discovery provides crucial evidence of how one of humanity’s earliest farming communities buried and remembered