Excavations at Arslantepe (Malatya)

• DOI: 10.2307/3642761
• Publication Date: 2007-01-23T19:37:27Z
• Authors: A. Palmieri
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

During the most recent campaigns (1976–79) carried out at Arslantepe, excavations were concentrated on the south-west area of the hüyük, where a stratigraphic sequence belonging to the period covering the end of the fourth and the beginning of the third millennium was identified; large areas of several levels were brought to light. With reference to this period two main phases can be clearly recognized: VI A and VI B. The former is characterized by its strong Syro-Mesopotamian connections, the latter by the considerable presence of East-Anatolian-Transcaucasian elements beside elements typical of the Upper Euphrates region.