Editing Perga (section)

===Early Bronze===
The history of the city dates back to the Late Chalcolitic Era or Early Bronze Age.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aşkım |first= Özdizbay |editor-last1= Tekin |editor-first1= Oğuz|editor-last2=Roosevelt |editor-first2= Christopher H. |editor-last3=Akyürek  |editor-first3=Engin <!--DUPLICATE |title=Tarih Boyunca Anadolu’da Hayırseverlik: Birinci Uluslararası Suna & İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Uygarlıkları Sempozyumu --> |date= 2020 |chapter= Perge’nin İtalik Kökenli Hayırseverleri ve Kent Gelişimine Katkıları |title= Anadolu Kültürlerine Bir Bakış Some Observations on Anatolian Cultures Armağan Erkanal'a Armağan Compiled in Honor of Armağan Erkanal |url=https://www.academia.edu/44341593 |publisher= Koç Üniversitesi |page= 83}}</ref> Excavations in the original settlement on the [[acropolis]] date it to the early [[Bronze Age]], 4000-3000 BC.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Turkey/Mediterranean/Antalya/photo494664.htm|title=Perge|access-date=2006-10-30}}</ref> Pottery found in the Perga Acropolis is linked to the Early Bronze Age pottery traditions in Western Anatolia.<ref>{{cite book |last=Umurtak |first= Gülsun |editor-last1= Abbasoğlu |editor-first1= Haluk |editor-last2= Martini |editor-first2= Wolfram |title= Die Akropolis von Perge. Band 1: Survey und Sondagen 1994-1997 |url=http://nek.istanbul.edu.tr:4444/ekos/MAKALE/M2912.pdf |date= 2004 |chapter= A short report on a group of prehistoric pottery |publisher= wbg Philipp von Zabern in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft |page=82}}</ref>