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Observations on John Garstang’s Excavations at Kazanlı Höyük (Cilicia) in 1937

  • Alexander Ahrens EMAIL logo and Federico Manuelli

Abstract

In 1937, British archaeologist John Garstang (1876–1956) excavated several trenches at the site of Kazanlı Höyük as part of the Neilson Expedition in Cilicia. The site is located in Plain Cilicia, approximately 2 km from the modern coastline (ca. 11 km east of modern-day Mersin, and 17 km west of Tarsus, roughly located by the ancient/modern road connecting these two cities). After these short trial excavations, however, Garstang’s interest shifted to the site of Mersin/Yumuktepe, where he then excavated for a number of years. Apart from two very brief preliminary reports on his excavations at Kazanlı Höyük, which were published in the journal “Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Liverpool,” not much is known about his work at the site. Unpublished photographs kept in the Special Collections of the University College London (UCL) shed new light on Garstang’s work at the site.

Acknowledgements

For help while searching the archives and also for the kind permission to publish John Garstang’s photographs of his excavations at Kazanlı Höyük for the first time, thanks are due to Mandy Wise and Dan Mitchell of the Special Collections of University College London, as well as Ian Carroll of the Institute of Archaeology of UCL. The photographs are reproduced courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology of UCL. Thanks are also due to Aslı Özyar (İstanbul), Nathalie Kallas (Berlin), Cecilie Lelek-Tvetmarken (Berlin), Giulio Palumbi (Lyon), Agnese Vacca (Rome) and Anna Lucia D’Agata (Rome) for reading and commenting on earlier drafts of this paper. A. Ahrens wrote parts I and II, F. Manuelli wrote parts III and IV, part V was written by both authors. This article was made possible through the kind support of the German Society for the Exploration of Palestine (Deutscher Palästina-Verein, DPV), which facilitated research within the archives conducted by A. Ahrens in July 2016.

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