Bronze Age Necropolis

 The Early Bronze Age (3200-1800 BC) necropolis finds, discovered in Gümüşlük in 2013, are the oldest examples unearthed in the Bodrum peninsula. Studies conducted in Çukurbük, Kesikservi, and Çingenealanı necropolises provide information about Bronze Age burials and social and economic relations with other neighboring cultures on the peninsula. Generally, burials made in Hocker style (knees pulled to chest, in birth position) in pithos jars provide new information about the early history of the peninsula and burial customs. Animal bones and pottery found in offering pits of different diameters and depths, found next to pithos-style tombs, present the best examples of their species.

Quality and well-cooked vessels, gold and silver jewelry, bronze weapons, and tools found in the tombs significantly showed the people’s welfare.