Malatya-Melid between the Late Bronze and the Iron Age. Continuity and Change at Arslantepe during the 2nd and 1st Millennium BC: Preliminary Observations on the Pottery Assemblages

After some 40 years of focus on other periods, there has been a recent renewal in interest in Arslantepe's Hittite and Post-Hittite periods. Preliminary studies of pottery assemblages from the Late Bronze Age levels, excavated between 1969 and 1983, began in 2006. In 2008 a new series of archaeological investigations of the Iron Age phases began