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Archaeology in Turkey Archaeology in Turkey MARIE-HENRIETTE GATES Three concurrent patterns in Turkish archaeol- about sites threatened by industrial and demographic ogy can be understood from the following expansion report (more on this below). Archaeological strat- on the 1995 season's activities* The first and most egy is advancing on technical fronts, however, to ad- obvious is the recent dramatic increase in field proj- dress this urgency, and the information acquired can ects (fig. 1). The annual reports published by the Turk- only be considered a fortunate harvest. ish Ministry of Culture (in 1996, for the 1994 season) Third, to balance the enormous increase in data filled four bulging volumes, with some 1,000 pages concerning all periods, one can now welcome new on excavations and another 800 on surveys, despite concerted efforts at synthesis. Anatolian archaeol- enforced limits on manuscript length. This newslet- ogy has so far inspired fewer general studies and ter has therefore also swelled in size, and the west- handbooks than other cultural areas of the Near East. ern portion of its map has become a dense grid of Those in standard use are, at this stage, venerable points and place-names. classics-in a field where much has changed since Second, the vigorous health of archaeological their outlines were formulated: R. Naumann's Ar- fieldwork is broadening complementary research on chitektur Kleinasiens (Tiibingen 1955, rev. 1971), U.B. related questions, the projects inspiring or encour- Alkim's Anatolia I (Cleveland 1968), and S. Lloyd's aging others to pursue similar or parallel issues. Re- Ancient Turkey (London 1989- but conceived much search on Byzantine sites, for example, attracts each earlier). One must thus celebrate the courage of those year a wider circle of participants, extending from who have succeeded in taking on this difficult chal- Thrace and Constantinople to the Aegean, Lycian, lenge. M. Joukowsky has just published Early Turkey: and Black Sea coasts, and Cappadocia; and their Anatolian Archaeologyfrom Prehistory through the Lydian scope is shifting from architectural and art histor- Period (Dubuque 1996), setting up a thick framework ical questions to the tangible social and economic for future overviews. M. 6zdogan, whose brilliant changes that transformed the late antique world into fieldwork in Thrace has reassembled the bridge be- the medieval one. As noted in previous newsletters, tween prehistoric Anatolia and its Balkan neighbors, Neolithic projects are multiplying, albeit more slowly, is proposing a sequence of convincing models to ex- in the Apikli and Urfa regions, in surveys along the plain Anatolian developments within their broader Black Sea, and with the revival of excavations at KoSk European and Near Eastern contexts (e.g., for pre- Hoyiik near Nigde. Analysis of ancient technologies Bronze Age Anatolia in U. Magen and M. Rashad eds., is also coalescing into a more satisfactory, diachronic Vom Halys zum Euphrat [Altertumskunde des Vorderen picture. The ceramic industry, especially, has invited Orient 7, Miinster 1996] 185-202; and for Neolithic the precise focus of several teams, investigating Hel- Anatolia in Porofilo o raziskovanju paleolitika, neolitika lenistic kilns on the Marmaris peninsula, classical to in eneolitika v Sloveniji 22 [1995] 25-61). S. Harman- Byzantine amphora workshops around Sinop, Byzan- kaya and 0. Tanindi have also undertaken an ad- tine pottery production on the Sea of Marmara (and, mirable and painstaking enterprise: the comprehen- indirectly, at Amorium in central Anatolia), and Otto- sive index Tiirkiye Arkeolojik Yerlegmeleri or TAY man ceramic centers at Iznik and Istanbul. It should (Archaeological Sites in Turkey), where each site is de- be said that many of the recent projects were formed scribed and provided with pertinent bibliography, in response to cries of distress from those concerned map, plan, and selected illustrations on separate * This newsletter was in large part written from notes kent colleagues, whose expertise was tapped on many oc- taken at the 18th Annual Archaeological Symposium incasions, A. Goldman, N. Karg, and I. Ozgen provided much Ankara (27-31 May 1996), organized by the Turkish Min- help with bibliographical references. C.W. Gates attended istry of Culture's General Directorate of Monuments and three days of the survey sessions; his careful notes gave Museums. I am happy to acknowledge my gratitude to the me the basis for most of the survey entries included here. speakers; to the colleagues who took the time to send meAs in past years, I am especially indebted to the AJA's ed- papers and photographs; to R. Ousterhout and S. Redford itors, especially Pamela Russell and Danielle Newland, for for their contributions on Byzantine surveys and Islamic their exceptional patience and encouragement. Newland, sites, respectively; and to Y. Ersoy, M. Ozdogan, and V.who graciously revised the map of Turkey (fig. 1) originally $ahoglu for prompt responses to inquiries. Among my Bil- drawn by Liesbeth Wenzel, deserves particular thanks. American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 241-305 241 A Pinar/ Demirci KIRKLARELI - AMASRA.'SINOP kTAMONU S *i ISTANBUL EDiRNE -Karacaky ARTVIN ARDAH Gazi Silivri Amasya TRABZON Arakld ."Ainns An G icusORUM . BAYBURT G6kre Ada BIGA, * pna' znk *Qandlr Ortak6y *Sos H6 ueBURSA Sinap Tepe. Alaca. *ERZURU T Daskyleion .rESiEHIRBogazk6y Alexandria Troas Demircihyk hyk ANKARAKerkenes Dag SIVAS Sminton Ass Ormanordion Fidal *KPAli?ar H6yUErc PeramoOTAHYA .Kaman .Kugakl *Aizanoi Norluntepe Klazomenai Bayraki * p*Ulubey . AKHISAR * t *Amorium Kltepe LimanT. rdis Tmolus 'Igin.Acemh6yO TKubadabad Akhisar G61iida? Nemrud Dagi. D DTorb . tan a AKSARAY*Ai KONYA Viran~ehir . kli -Ni&jDE MALATYA DNYARBAKIR Hallan husos .. * Hierapolis ?O KYA Kestel ri " or Be~9/Macitn Keramos kp GAZIANTEP URFA MLAS KBodrunr y"Stratonikemaiea ?bdiice ? Karain*U:N *Okuzini Kaklik TSiInyon Porauk e arMevkii AkSre Kebanar O ' ."D Datga IbOura0QenoandaKauos ELMALI Side Klis Par eMERSIN. e Sirkel* S KB ma Haceb Kazane Knidos Slm-ye ethmye* KDomuzte Hacmuaar eeKEDERUN OyaJm Zeugma XanthoSn k Ti os -U ma Scfe orykos ( Amuq - 0 20 4 Patara Myra-yaneai e :.Kelenderis : " ANTAKYA- .?"Uluburun ... Fig. 1. Map of archaeological sites in Turkey discussed in t 1997] ARCHAEOLOGY IN TURKEY 243 loose-leaf pages. The plicationswork for theiris sites'assembled early phases. When Man-in a binder to allow periodic fred Korfmannadditions. won, on 30 September The 1996,first his long in ment, TAY 1 (Istanbul battle 1996), to have Troy covers and its environs the declared Palaeo a his- through Epipalaeolithic toric periods; national park, he couldfive indeed other claim a major vol will inventory the Neolithic victory. Such measures, through however, cannot the be invoked Iron Istanbul University, everywhere.where both 6zdogan an TAY project are based, must nurture such und BIBLIOGRAPHY ings. Another great historical geography has re emerged from the same Conferences. university, The 1994 excavation although reports d a 50-year interval: Ronald ered in AnkaraSyme's at the Anatolica.17th archaeological St sy in Strabo (Oxford 1995), sium edited(May-June 1995)by wereA.R. published Birley in XVII. i part from manuscripts Sonuplarz that Toplantzsz Syme I-II wrote (Ankara 1996), while abbrev ing at the university here in as 1944KST 17:1 and 17:2 1945. (1996); reports fo Within this broad picture, same year on surveysthe and1995 scientific fieldw researc brought two key second-millennium peared in XIII. Araftzrma Sonuglarz puzzles Toplantzsz to I- clusive resolution. W.-D. Niemeier's excavations at kara 1996) and XI. Arkeometri SonuClarz Topla Bronze Age Miletos produced Minoan and Mycenae- (Ankara 1996), abbreviated here as Ara?ST 13 an materials in such high percentages that the iden- 13:2 (1996), and ArkST 11 (1996). Reports on the tification of the site as Millawanda, founded by Cre- fieldwork season, the subject of this newsletter tans from Milatos, can now be securely argued on presented on 27-31 May 1996, but will not be a archaeological grounds. Kurunta, rival of his cousin able in print until the 1997 symposium conv Tudhaliya IV for the Hittite throne, made tentative Turkish museum personnel also stepped up th steps over the past decade to reclaim his succession rescue and conservation efforts on needy si among the Hittite kings, first with the bronze treaty all periods within their provinces. Reports on plaque found in 1986 outside the Sphinx Gate at 1994 findings, presented at a separate confe Bogazk6y, then with his sealings from the registry earlier in 1995, were published in VI. Miize Kurt of bullae discovered in 1992 at Nigantepe. In 1996, Kazzlarz Semineri (Ankara 1996), here MKKS 6 he definitively emerged onto center stage: a rock re- The Unesco-Habitat II conference took place w lief ("Hatip Kaya") found a few kilometers south of great fanfare in Istanbul, on 5-7 June 1996 Konya at Hatip proclaims him "Great King, son of nounced, drawing large crowds and internat Muwatalli, Great King"; the phrase is inscribed be- dignitaries. Papers on its archaeological issu side a kilted figure armed with a bow and spear. Thus, be found in Y. $ey ed., Housing and Settlement in Suppiluliuma II's extreme piety in honoring the tolia: A Historical Perspective (Istanbul 1996). S memory of Tudhaliya IV can be understood more conferences are being hosted annually in Ist precisely as a righteous effort to strengthen his by the IFEA (Institut franpais d' tudes anatolie line's royal succession. H. Ekiz, O. Ermigler, and A. Georges Dumezil), in recent years on pottery Dincol will publish the relief in a forthcoming vol- duction (1996: Anatolian Hellenistic-Roman cera ume of TiirkArkDerg. Other Hittite hieroglyphic/ ics); papers given at their 1993 CNRS round Luvian inscriptions of more modest nature, but great on fortifications in classical Asia Minor have b interest, came to light on seals or bullae with apublished as combined issues (1-2) of REA 96 (1 wide geographic distribution: Metropolis/Torbali, Talks delivered at the 1994 ASOR meetings, in Dorylaion, Troy, and Kilise Tepe, the latter two in sion devoted to pre-Roman empires in Anatolia earliest Iron Age contexts.
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