2011 Season at Kinet Höyük (Yeşil-Dörtyol, Hatay) (original) (raw)

2020 / Murat Höyük 2019 Excavation: A Preliminary Report

SDÜ Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2020

This report presents the preliminary results of salvage excavations carried out at Murat Höyük in 2019. Excavations at Murat Höyük (and nearby Murat Tepe) constitute the first scientific archaeological excavations conducted within the boundaries of Bingöl province. Murat Höyük is located on the bank of the Murat River in Solhan district of modern Bingöl province in Eastern Anatolia. Because the höyük remained within the water reservoir of Aşağı Kaleköy hydroelectric dam, Murat Höyük was registered among threatened archaeological sites by Erzurum Regional Board of Cultural Heritage Preservation in 2018. Subsequently, salvage excavations were initiated at the site by a team of specialists under the directorship of Elazığ Museum, which lasted for one intensive field season in 2019 prior to the inundation of the höyük. Four main cultural periods were documented during excavations (from top to bottom): Phase I: Medieval Period, Phase II: Middle Iron Age, Phase III: Early Iron Age, and Phase IV: Early Bronze Age. The earliest habitation of the mound dates to Early Bronze III (2500-2200 BC) in regional chronology. Until the initiation of salvage excavations at the nearby site of Murat Tepe in 2018, archaeological investigations in Bingöl province had remained limited to surface surveys. As such, our knowledge about the cultural sequence of the region from the Bronze Ages to the Medieval Period was restricted to surface finds. Murat Höyük and Murat Tepe excavations have thus begun to fill this lacuna in our knowledge by providing archaeological finds from secure contexts in a stratified sequence. Further interpretations of our findings from especially the multi-period mound of Murat Höyük will undoubtedly contribute greatly to the archaeology of the region and neighboring.

Excavations at Kınık Höyük 2016

Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi 39/2, 2017

Report of excavation at Kınık Höyük (Turkey), season 2016 (specifically, paragraph “Operation B”, together with L. d’Alfonso, pp. 591-592).

The 2021 Excavation Season at Uşaklı Höyük

42. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, 2023

Uşaklı Höyük is a multi-period site in the province of Yozgat composed of a high mound and a lower terrace, first identified by 20th century archaeologists as a potential Hittite settlement. Since 2008 an international team of researchers has been exploring and excavating different parts of the site, reconstructing its settlement history.1 This work has revealed that Uşaklı was occupied over large portions from the end of the 3rd millennium BCE to the Common Era, experiencing multiple construction and destruction events at different scales, and has allowed us to collect information about the sequence of occupation and individuate large buildings and defensive structures mainly dated to the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. In this article we summarize the main results of the 2021 excavation season.

The 2013–2015 Excavation Seasons at Uşaklı Höyük (Central Turkey)

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 2, B. Horejs, C. Schwall, V. Müller, M. Luciani, M. Ritter, M. Guidetti, R.-B. Salisbury, F. Höflmayer and T. Bürge (eds), Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden. , 2018

vation at Uşaklı Höyük, a multi-period site located on the southern bank of the Egri Öz Dere, not far from the city of Yozgat, on the Central Anatolian Plateau. The results of a five year survey (2008–2012) provided substantial evidence for the occupation of the site which extended from the Early Bronze Age to the Ottoman period, with some evidence of a Late Chalcolithic phase. Within this period, the most significant occupation dates to the 2nd and 1st millennia BC. Excavations carried out between 2013 and 2015 produced significant evidence dating to the Late Bronze and Iron Ages both on the high mound and on the large, extended terrace. Impressive architectural features in the form of granitic boulders were revealed in Area A and fragments of cuneiform tablets found on the slopes of the mound suggest the importance of the settlement at the time of Hittite rule over the region. The Iron Age period is also characterised by intensive building activity centred on the höyük. Here, in Area C a complex retaining structure consisting of a large stone glacis, walls and earthen fillings has been exposed