Alacahöyük

Or, the wide blue empyrean.

Alacahöyük was an Anatolian settlement from the Chalcolithic period; the copper age, two millenia before the bronze age began. The earliest copper smelting for which there is definite evidence dates back seven thousand years. In Alacahöyük, people were making extraordinary images of horned bulls, cast using the lost wax method. These cultures were roote…