These two volumes report on five season's excavation and four millennia
of occupation at Kilise Tepe, from the Early Bronze Age through the rise
and fall of the Hittite Empire and into the Byzantine era when the mound
was crowned by a substantial church. The site takes its importance from
its position guarding the Göksu Valley, one of the two main routes from
the interior of Anatolia to the Mediterranean opposite Cyprus, so that
it gives a record of relations between the interior and the seaboard. Of
particular interest are the sequence from the Hittite Empire through the
end of the Bronze Age and into the classical world, and the Byzantine
levels associated with the church. The multi-authored report gives a
full account of the stratigraphy and architecture, the ceramics and
other artefacts, and various environmental studies.