Çaltılar

A photograph taken in Çaltılar in 2009

Çaltılar is a rural hamlet in the Seydikemer District of Muğla Province, Turkey (Anatolia), just off State road D.350. It is in the highland summer pastures on the Eşen river system and is the site of a prehistoric settlement known as Çaltılar Höyük.

Çaltılar Höyük

Settlement at Çaltılar höyük goes back to the Chalcolithic, with layers of occupation extending until the early Iron Age. The earliest survey of the site was carried out in 1988 by the Balboura Survey directed by J. J. Coulton.[1] Systematic excavations were carried out by an international team led by Nicoletta Momigliano in 2008–2010.[2] Further excavations launched in 2021 under Professor Ayşegül Aykurt of Hacettepe University found material indicating Bronze Age trade links down river, along the coast and across the Aegean Sea.[3]

References

  1. ↑ N. Momigliano; A. Greaves; T. Hodos; B. Aksoy; A. Brown; M. Kibaroğlu; T. Carter (2011). "Settlement history and material culture in southwest Turkey: report on the 2008–2010 survey at Çaltılar Höyük (northern Lycia)". Anatolian Studiesvolume=61: 61–121.
  2. ↑ Nicoletta Momigliano; Mustafa Kibaroğlu (2017). "The Çaltılar Archaeological Project: Archaeological, Archaeometric, and Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Pottery Production and Consumption in Southwest Turkey". In Çiğdem Maner; Mara T. Horowitz; Allan S. Gilbert (eds.). Overturning Certainties in Near Eastern Archaeology: A Festschrift in Honor of K. Aslıhan Yener. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 90. Brill. pp. 477–502.
  3. ↑ "Melos obsidian reveals Bronze Age maritime trade links". Hürriyet Daily News. 29 July 2026.
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