Archaeological excavations were taken at Go Uğurlu-Zeytinlik in Gökçeada district of çanakkale, which was revealed 5 architectural structures 8 thousand 800 years ago.
With the permission of the General Department of Cultural Heritage and Museum of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism since 2009, Professor of Archaeological Faculty Letters. The doctor of work in the mound was excavated under the group of Burçin Erdoğu that clarified the oldest periods in the west of Türkiye.
Chairman of the Excavation Committee. Dr. Erdoğu said that excavations continued in the mound, about one kilometer north of Uğurlu village. Said that they have achieved important findings in excavations this year, Erdoğu said that the collected data would clarify the past of Gökçeater and the Aegean Islands.
“We have revealed for the first time”
Expressing that human presence on the island on 8 thousand 800 years ago, Erdoğu said: “This is the earliest settlement of the Aegean Islands, meaning a settlement area of up to 6800 years BC.”
“We have achieved important architectural findings. During this period, we achieved 5 housing structures of the Agricultural Community of the Gökçeda Agricultural Community in the early days of 8,000 800 years ago.” With Knossos settlement on Crete Island, we can say that we have revealed the architecture of agricultural communities earliest in the first Agricultural Community of the Aegean Islands.
