New Results from the excavations seasons 2016 at Uşaklı Höyük

Excavations carried out between 2013 and 2016 at Uşaklı Höyük, in the province of Yozgat in the Central Anatolian Plateau have brought to light parts of structures relating to three phases of occupation: a late-Roman phase, an Iron Age or Late Phrygian phase and one relating to the Late Bronze of Imperial Hittite period. Middle and final Early Bronze Ages are, instead, documented only by sporadic materials not found in context. These phases relate to the period of highest population in the region, as would appear to be supported also by the survey of the surrounding area carried out in 2008-2010 and now published (Mazzoni and Pecchioli 2015). Work during the 2016 was aimed at extending the excavation of two buildings dating to the Hittite phase, the temple in the south-eastern part of the lower town (Building II, Area A) and the palace on the southern slope of the acropolis (Building III, Area D) as well as parts of the citadel fortification dating to the Iron Age, or Late Phrygian Period (Area D)