Overview of our excavations in the Hittite Period at Cadir Hoyuk in central Turkey

8. Excavation Compound in Peyniryemez with Kerkenes Dag (Mt. Pushkurunwa?) in the background

9. Excavation House Peyniryemez

10. The Excavation House: at home in Peyniryemez

11. Men’s Tents Ron’s Room Excavation House Scenes Huseyin’s Garden

12. The Terrace ‘Lokanta’

13. Hanging out after a long day

14. Saving Cadir Hoyuk 1994

17. North Slope South Slope Citadel Summit Northern Terrace N East Slope Step Trench Aerial View of Cadir Hoyuk in 1994

19. East Trench Views

20. Aerial View of Step Trench 1994

21. East Trench 1994: Walls 7 and 6

23. East Trench: Wall F 20 Trench 800.930

24. F 20 F 6 (exterior of casemate wall) F 7 Early Old Hitt building and pots East Trench 2001 Mudbricks Thickness of wall F 6 = 6 m Burned debris from wall F 20 destruction 1994 Superstructure F 20

25. The makeup of Wall F 20 F 20 F 6 Burned debris F 20 superstructure

26. F 20 (OH-MB Trans) F 67/71 (Hittite Emp.) Double Rooms (OH) Iron Age F 1 (MH) Byzantine East Trench Settlement Sequence

28. Knobbed-Pot from Pit F 41

29. Early Old Hittite Pottery East Trench: 800.920

30. Early Old Hittite Pottery Goldglimmerware Karum Period Animal foot

31. Early Old Hittite Period Small Finds from 800.920

33. F 20 (OH-MB Trans) F 67/71 (Hittite Emp.) Double Rooms (OH) Iron Age F 1 (MH) Byzantine East Trench Settlement Sequence F 20 superstructure

34. F 1 MH Wall Later Pit Pottery “bench” Two rooms (Old Hittite) Remains of F 20 superstructure Hittite Empire

35. The superstructure above F 20 Tumble Door ? Pit? Follow this “wall” Mud/mudbrick of wall F 20 (OH) superstructure - looking south 2 Meters + ?? mb wall? ??

36. East Trench : The Empire Period Wall 6 m F 67 F 67 F ?? Middle Hittite Fill F 1 MH Wall Middle Hittite Fill F 71 F 68 F 68 F 69 F 72 F 69 F 72

37. East Trench Detail F67 and F 71 Hittite Empire Wall ? Middle Hittite Period Fill Ca. 1550-1450 BC F 71 F 67 MH Fill

38. East Trench 800.910 Wall F 68 Old Hittite 15 th Century? Early Old Hittite

39. The Hittite Empire Period Upper East Trench

40. Lower East Trench

41. Lower East Trench

43. East Trench Finds in Context

45. The South Trench 2000

46. Southern Slope in 2001 Hittite EB II Chalcolithic Iron Age Byzantine Hellenistic Late Classical wash and fill Iron Age Hittite

47. X A Hittite Cultic Alter and other items from the Stormgod’s Temple at Zippalanda?

48. Middle (and Late) Iron Age Gate Upper South Slope Late Iron Addition Middle Iron Gate(?) Early Iron Installation

50. Late Iron Age blockage of Hittite gate

52. An Approach to the Citadel? Ramp or Stairway a la Bogazkoy North Gate

53. Base of the Mound Magnetometry

54. The Lower City from the Citadel Mound OA/OH Sounding halentuwa /palace Lower Gate From Bogazkoy To Caltepe To Citadel Monumental Gate ramp or steps?

55. The Terrace Sounding

56. The Terrace Sounding

57. The Terrace Sounding

58. The Terrace Sounding

59. Hittite Processional Way? Terrace Sounding

60. Cadir 2 nd Millennium Objects

61. Weaponry from Cadir Hoyuk

62. Miniature Libation Bowls

63. “ Lion” Representations

64. Second Millennium Ceramics

65. Cadir – Caltepe: Zippalanda - Daha Stormgod of Zippalanda’sTemple Complex Hilammar

66. Mt. Daha overlooking Zippalanda Temple Complex hilammar Cult Niche

67. The Royal Route to Daha Temple Mound Storerooms? Egri Su (river) Caltepe/Mt. Daha Alisar (Ankuwa) Kirklartepe Salir (Katapa)

68. Mt. Daha overlooking Zippalanda Temple Complex hilammar Cult Niche

69. A Cult Niche?

72. Temple of the Stormgod overlooking Zippalanda Gate Cadir Hoyuk 40 m 80 m

73. The Stormgod of Zippalanda’s Temple on Mt. Daha Courtyard Storeroom Storeroom Storeroom

77. Early Iron Age / “Dark Age” Cadir Caltepe - Mt. Daha

79. 2 nd Millennium - Iron Age Transition Iron Age Building and Underlying Hittite Pits

80. Dark Age Building and Fallen Mudbrick Upper South Trench

81. Late Hittite Ritual Pits?

82. X Late Hittite Ritual Pits?

83. Dark Age Pottery

85. An Iron Age Pot

86. The Late Iron Age Southern Gate Eastern (2008) and Western (2005) Piers of the Late Iron Age Gate (cf. Alisar gate).

87. Iron Age Architecture North Slope Casemate Wall 2005 2006

88. Late Iron Age “Gate” Architecture

95. Cadir Hoyuk c14 Samples by Period