Category:Akarçay Tepe finds from neolithic period in the Urfa museum

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A notice explains how the earliest settlement phase at Akarçay Tepe dates from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN), a time in which plants and animals were gradually domesticated. It was one of the first agricultural villages to emerge in the region. During the Pottery Period the settlement can be described as a simple village settlement. At the museum two structures from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (about 6000 BC) are reconstructed, based on the ruins unearthed at the excavation site, one a single room one whose walls are made from stone, the other a multiple-room one with no stone foundation and adobe walls. The roof structure and height are based on examples from other sites.