Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781898249207
Pub Date: 21 Jan 2010
Imprint: British Institute at Ankara
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 159 b/w illus, 6 folded illus. CD with 46 plans and sections
Description:
This book presents the structures and stratigraphy of the important Iron Age sequence at Tille Höyuek, a mound at a crossing of the Euphrates in eastern Turkey. The site, which was excavated between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, revealed ten major structural levels of the Iron Age, spanning the period from the 11th century to the 6th-4th centuries BC, as well as earlier and later remains, and the wide exposure of architecture provides a sequence of intelligible and impressive building plans. After the initial discussion of the background and methodology of their excavation, the successive levels are carefully described and fully illustrated.