Titriş Höyük

Titriş Höyük is an Early Bronze Age city dating between 2600 and 2100 BC. During the Early Bronze Age, the city and inhabitants of Titriş Höyük prospered through their far-flung trading connections, linking the Anatolian Plateau and the high Taurus Mountain area of eastern Turkey with the lowland civilization of Mesoptamia in Iraq and northeasten Syria. Although Titriş Höyük was a village for thousands of years prior to the Early Bronze Age, it was an important city for only 500 years. After its collapse, the city was never reoccupied and today the site is covered in agricultural fields hiding its rich ancient heritage.

The Titriş Höyük Archaeological Expedition began in 1991 under the direction of Dr. Guillermo Algaze of the University of California, San Diego. In 1994, Dr. Timothy Matney of the University of Akron joined the project as co-director. The Titriş Höyük team conducted eight seasons of excavation (1991-1996, 1998-1999) and one study season (1997) as well as extensive subsurface magnetic gradiometry surveys.