Die Ausgrabungen in Bogazköy-Hattusa 2010

Andreas Schachner Archäologischer Anzeiger 2011/1: 31-86.

Περίληψη (στα Αγγλικά)

The excavations concentrate on the southern section of the Lower City. Enlargement of the excavation area has allowed to us to establish more precisely the chronological and structural development of this section. Central to our interest in this connection was the exploration of a well preserved building level of the Late Karum Period, the finds from which are deepening our knowledge of the period of transition to the Hittite epoch. Within the area of the recently resumed excavations it is becoming increasingly clear that the monumental  architecture in the vicinity of the Great Temple, excavated untill into the 1970s, does not continue southwards. By contrast, initial sondages in what is known as the South Sector (Sudareal), indicate the existence of architecture on a large scale predating the erection of the surviving monumental buildings.