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The Bronze to Iron Age transition at Kilise Tepe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

C. K. Hansen  and
J. N. Postgate
C. K. Hansen
Affiliation:
Carsten Niebuhr Institute Copenhagen
J. N. Postgate
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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The mound of Kilise Tepe, formerly known as Maltepe, stands above the left bank of the Göksu near where the river leaves the Mut basin to plunge between cliffs down to the coast at Silifke about 45km to the southeast. It thus dominates one of the best-known routes from the Mediterranean to the central Anatolian plateau. Excavation at the site began in 1994, and confirmed the presence here of Late Bronze Age occupation, already deduced from collections of surface sherds by Mellaart and French, but also revealed Iron Age, Hellenistic and Byzantine layers. The present article addresses rather specifically the ceramic evidence for the end of the Bronze Age and subsequent Iron Age occupation, with particular emphasis on the chronological framework and certain wares in these levels not previously described.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 49 , December 1999 , pp. 111 - 122
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1999

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