Table of Contents

1. The site and its setting
2. Historical background
3. Field methodologies: Excavation strategy and techniques
4. The analysis and presentation of the results
5. Stratification and architecture: Early Iron Age (Levels I-III)
6. Stratification and architecture: Middle Iron Age (Neo-Hittite Levels IV-VII)
7. Stratification and architecture: Later Iron Age (Neo-Assyrian and later, Levels VIII and IX)
8. Stratification and architecture: The Latest Iron Age (Level X, 'Achaemenid')
9. Bibliography for Part 1

About the Author

Dr Stuart Blaylock has excavated extensively at sites in Turkey, including the Iron Age levels at Tille. He is currently Senior Archaeologist at Exeter Archaeology, where he has been working for many years. Besides his research on Turkish archaeology, he has produced a number of studies of ancient and historical monuments in the West country.