The First Bronze Age Ceramics

In the First Bronze Age Bademagaci evolved into a town. In many sections of the mound the First Bronze Age II dwellings were constructed on the remains of the houses ruined by the conflagration which ended the Neolithic Period. During the First Bronze Age, in Bademagaci the tradition of pottery making was simple, daily used vessels were hand built and shaped in a potter's wheel.

Nearly 95% of the pottery fall into two big groups: red and gray-black vessels. In both groups the earthenware which has thick walls and which is well coated inside and outside, mostly polished and fired at medium or high temperatures strikes attention. Big plates; deep bowls sometimes with pedestal base; splayed beak spouted jugs and small jugs; turndown spouted, high necked or globular bodied, three legged large pots are the most frequently seen types of pottery. Sometimes long necked, beak spouted, elegant jugs and pots are uncovered, as well. Only few of them have been decorated with relief designs and lines.

Polished earthenware with coating in red and its shades is one of the common local pottery practices of the First Bronze Age II and constitutes the majority of the First Bronze Age ceramics. Although Beak Spouted Jugs and Small Jugs represent the features of the region, deep grooved decoration which is widespread in Bademagaci is actually typical for Burdur region. Apart from the pottery, baked earth idols, many stamp seals made of baked earth and stone (pintaderas), baked earth spindle whorls, stone chisels, hand axes, pendant and beads are among the small finds unearthed in the settlement.

We see many bronze tools and implements among the First Bronze Age findings: headed pins used as ornaments, sewing pins, bracelets, spear points, daggers and a gold ear plug to name but a few.