Aşıklı Mound

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Aşıklı Mound

Aşıklı Tumulus (Aşıklı Höyüğü) has been established 10,500 years ago as the first village settlement of Central Anatolia. The Aşıklı community, which abandoned the hunter, gatherer and nomadic lifestyle and moved to a settled and productive lifestyle, lived in the same place for at least 30-35 generations from the mid-ninth millennium BCE to the mid-eighth millennium BCE. Aşıklı community has had pioneering developments in the history of architecture, history of medicine, agriculture and animal husbandry etc. during their thousand years of life in the Cappadocia Region.

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