Aşıklı Höyük: Story of oldest village in central Turkey
10,500-year-old village stands out with replica ‘experimental houses’, says head of excavation team
The oldest village in Turkey’s central Cappadocia region is keen to attract more tourists by offering a visit through its thousands of years old history.
Asikli Hoyuk, located 25 kilometers east of Turkey’s central Aksaray province, is the oldest village settlement in Cappadocia region, dating back to 8,500 B.C., said Mihriban Ozbasaran, a prehistory archeology professor at Istanbul University.
Ozbasaran, also the head of the excavation team, asserted that the 10,500-year-old settlement should stand out more in the regional tourism.
“At the entrance [of Asikli Hoyuk], there are replicas we call ‘experimental houses’, in which we copied houses or living areas that we found in the mound,” Ozbasaran told Anadolu Agency.
According to Ozbasaran, the process of transition from nomadic to sedentary lifestyles can be observed step by step in the region.
Asikli Hoyuk is also the first region in the Central Turkey where sheep and goat were domesticated, Ozbasaran said, adding: “We also see the first mining products here.”
“This is one of the oldest people,” she added.
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