Körtik Tepe 2012 Stratigraphy
Introduction
This stratigraphic documentation is based on the drawings and descriptions of Filiz Doğan (FD). Two profiles (A135) were drawn and documented by Corinna Rößner (CR). Profiles A71, A80, A83, A84 and A104 were documented by Felix Schreiber (FS), Filiz Doğan, M. Deva Jebb-Albaba (MDJA), Christian Maise (CM) and Marion Benz (MB).
Eveline Zimmermann took measurements of the profiles and Marion Benz digitalized the drawings and wrote the English translation of the descriptions, the comments and constructed the harris matrixes. The two lines in the matrixes indicate the border of the Early Holocene and the Younger Dryas layers, respectively.
The radiocarbon data taken from the profiles are indicated by * . All radiocarbon data are given on the open access platform: www.exoriente.org/associated_projects/ppnd.php; readers are most welcome to consult that platform and help to actualize it.
For the location of the documented trenches see (Plan KTK 2012).
We hope this open access publication will support your research and we cordially thank you for respecting the copyrights. If you wish to cite from a comment or publish photos, we kindly ask you to indicate the author's name + Körtik Tepe Archive + URL. Photos with higher resolution can be provided upon request (benzm@hotmail.com).
The stratigraphic report without photos can be downloaded here.
For detailed information, drawings, and photos click on the file names.
- A05 (PhotosA5, Graph A5E, Graph A5N, Drawing A5E, Drawing A5N, Harris Matrix A5),
- A15, (photos s. A05East, Harris Matrix A15,Graph A15 E, Drawing A15 E)
- A19, (photosA19S, Harris Matrix A19S, Drawing A19S east part + west part, Graph A19S)
- A20, (photosA20E, Harris Matrix A20_15_5, Graph A20E, Drawing A20E)
- A21 (publication is in preparation)
- A28_25, (photosA28_A25, Harris MatrixA28_A25,Graph A28_A25, Drawing A28S, Drawing A25S)
- A43, (photoA43, Harris Matrix A43S, Graph A43S, Drawing A 43S)
- A71, information on A71 B3_4 will be published in Neo-Lithics 2/14 soon. (photos A71_B3_4)
- *A80, (see excavation reports 2010, 2011, photos A80 E, Drawing A80E, Drawing A80E deepcut, Graph A80E)
- A83, (a publication is forthcoming)
- *A84, (see excavation reports 2010, 2011, Graph A84 E, Drawing A84 E)
- A90, (photosA90S, Harris Matrix A90S, Graph A90S, Drawing A90S)
- *A91, (photosA91S, Harris Matrix A91S, Graph A91S, Drawing A91S)
- *A104, (see excavation reports 2012, 2013, photos A104S, Harris Matrix A104S, Graph A104S, Drawing A104S)
- A95_116_121 (photos A95_A116_A121S, Harris Matrix A95_A116_A121S, Graph A95_A116_A121S, Drawing A95_A116_A121S)
- A118, (photos A118 S, Harris Matrix A118 S, Graph A118 S, Drawing A118 S).
- A134, (photos A134 S, Harris Matrix A134 S, Graph A134 S, Drawing A134 S).
- A135, (photos A135 E, photo A135 S, Harris Matrix A135 E, Harris Matrix A 135 S, Graph A135 E, Graph A 135S, Drawing A135E, Drawing A135 S).
This documentation should be considered a basis for a discussion of the stratigraphy of the tell. Without knowing the findings, it is actually very difficult to provide secure chronological attributions, where no radiocarbon data are available. So, we are aware, that this report probably does need revisions and additional information, without which it will not be possible to gain a conclusive model of the stratigraphy.
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to Prof. Dr. Vecihi Özkaya and Dr. Aytaç Coşkun for organizing the excavation. Thanks are also due to the students and workers of the Körtik Tepe Team. Without their strenuous efforts this documentation would have been impossible in such a short time.
Financial support for the German team was granted by the German Research Foundation (BE 4218/2-2; AL 287/9-2). In 2012 additional support was granted by Prof. Dr. Helmut Köser, Lions-Club Emmendingen, Maria and Dr. Manfred Probst. We owe our deepest thanks to all of them.