photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Niğde >> Niğde museum > Nigde museum Kosk Hoyuk skull 0878.jpg
previous | next
03-May-2019 DICK OSSEMAN

Nigde museum Kosk Hoyuk skull 0878.jpg

House of Köşk Höyük
This house reflects the characteristics of the Early Chalcolithic period (4883 ± 125 BC) and was brought to light in Köşk Höyük. It consists of a large room, a division on the north-east, and a store divided by a granary, the building covers an area of 60,75 square meters. The surviving height of the mud covered stone walls is 2,30 meters today. The burnt remains of the wooden pillars used both for ceiling cover, which is thought to be flat, and for inner parts are pine and oak. The building, in which at least 54 different woods were used during its construction, was destroyed by a fire 42 years later.

A booklet by the ministry of tourism and culture indicates that the dead in the Kösk mound were often buried with their heads "separated from the body, of which the faces were then plastered with clay and the facial features picked out in red paint, giving them a striking appearance. This practiuce is also evident between the years 10.000 to 8.000 BC in Palestine, Israel and the South of Syria."

Nikon D850
1/80s f/8.0 at 135.0mm iso9000 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
comment | share