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Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age

October 2021 (125.4)
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Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age

125.4
İlknur Özgen
Elizabeth P. Baughan
Elif Ünlü
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Excavations at Hacımusalar Höyük in southwestern Turkey have uncovered thousands of years of occupation history, from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Byzantine era. This article offers a general survey of the Bronze Age occupation levels so far explored on the northern and western slopes of the mound, with particular focus on two well-preserved Early Bronze II destruction levels, closely superimposed. We present selected finds and architectural features from each stratigraphic level in sequence and discuss their significance for current theories of cultural interaction and social organization in West Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age. This new evidence indicates that Hacımusalar Höyük and the Elmalı plain were more connected with other parts of Anatolia than recent studies of Early Bronze Age cultural zones suggest but still maintained a distinctive regional character.

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Hacımusalar Höyük in the Early Bronze Age
By İlknur Özgen, Elizabeth P. Baughan, and Elif Ünlü
American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 125, No. 4 (October 2021), pp. 603–638
DOI: 10.3764/aja.125.4.0603
© 2021 Archaeological Institute of America

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