Höyük
First settlements · Aksaray

Aşıklı Höyük

Aceramic Neolithic62 km from Göreme

A village of mud-brick houses by the Melendiz river, lived in from around 8400 BC, where people were among the first anywhere to keep sheep and goats in pens. Finds are in the Aksaray Museum.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About 1 hour

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Göreme

62 km away as the crow flies, so allow more on the road.

On a trip
Cappadocia and the Konya plain

Day 2 of 3.

Hours and tickets
Check before you go

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Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.

Its place in history

Read the chapter before you go.

9600–3000 BCFirst villagesHunter-gatherers raised the stone circles of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe before anyone farmed.
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Earliest documented switch from hunting to herding sheep and goats. Aşıklı Höyük animal-pen deposits (urine salts), c. 8300–7400 BC. Qualified How sure we are →

From here

Göreme

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