Abstract:

In 1990, the Devrekâni district, located 32 km northeast of the Kastamonu district center, was found a group of Hitit metal container during the preliminary preparations of the Kulakslar Barjı project, which will be built near the Kınık district. With the rescue excavations launched in 1994 in the Delibeyoğlu Back Oren Place, which is shown as the location of the metals, the location of the metals has been confirmed and from the end of the 4th millennium BC to the first half of the 1st millennium BC, the three layers (I, II.1-2 and III) where interruptions have also occurred. The plain is fixed. One of these is the mining work that constitutes the subject of this work (II.1 early stage). by 3. The work dated the second half of the millennium consists of small stone-covered rooms groups and a large number of storage holes. The pot, flushing, breaking-cutting and boiling stone tools obtained from the surroundings of the rooms and holes and the oven remains provide the evidence of the work used by the miners to date. Kastamonu-Kınık is one of the few mining settlements that date from the 3rd millennium BC and have been mined in a wide area. This study contains general results related to settlement.

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