Köşk Mound
Located near the town of Bahçeli in the Bor district of Niğde, Köşk Höyük is one of the most important settlements in Central Anatolia from the Neolithic period. In the south of the region, whose history dates back to 6,000 BC, there is a pool belonging to the Roman Period and it gets its waters from a spring near the region. This situation can be shown as proof that the region was wet and fertile 2,000 years ago. In Köşk Höyük, which is approximately 80 meters in diameter and 15 meters high, four large cultural layers were discovered. It was understood that most of the tools and jewelry obtained during the excavations in Köşk Höyük were made of obsidian. Mother goddess statues made of clay and many ceramics were removed from this region. The ceramics, which are divided into two groups as monochrome and multicolored, are also covered with various animal figures and geometric shapes. Square structures with mud-brick walls on stone foundations, which are the building characteristics of the period, were found here, and the process of plastering the skull with clay in Anatolia was discovered during the excavations here. Four clay plaster skulls were obtained, and this process was first encountered in the Middle East around 8 thousand BC.
