6,000-year-old shaped child skull found at Yassıhöyük
6,000-year-old shaped child skull found in Yassıhöyük, where layers from the 2,600-year-old Achaemenid period were found. Yassıhöyük is located in the Tanır neighborhood in the Afşin district of Kahramanmaraş. Prehistoric period layers were identified during the excavations carried out by the team led by Ahi Evran University Assistant Professor Elif Baştürk. Nine graves were unearthed
2,800-year-old kilograms of chickpeas, wheat, apricot kernels, grapes and garlic grains found in Yassı Mound
Carbonized chickpeas, wheat, apricot kernels, grapes and garlic grains dating back 2,800 years were found at Yassı Mound in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş. Since 2021, excavations at Yassı Mound, led by Assoc. Prof. Elif Baştürk of Ahi Evran University, have shown the existence of nine distinct layers that existed continuously between 6,000 BC