Archaeological excavations at Kilise Tepe, Turkey.

旧世界历史上的一个主要转折点在公元前1200年左右崩溃，当时希腊、安纳托利亚和叙利亚复杂的晚期青铜时代宫廷国家崩溃了。有文化的行政、国际商业和外交一夜之间消失了，迎来了一个新秩序出现的漫长时期，最终导致了古典世界。与其他地方的类似情况一样，如后罗马时代的英国，当时的考古记录很少，也很难解释和更新，当时没有公共建筑的呼吁，不同地区之间几乎没有互动。对“系统崩溃”这一普遍现象和这一特殊情况的解释比比皆是，但目前的数据在时间和背景方面过于零碎，无法区分它们。Kilise Tepe位于地中海海岸以北45公里处，与塞浦路斯相对，有望做出重大贡献。20世纪90年代的工作表明，该遗址有大量来自赫梯帝国的建筑，这是一座独特的、保存完好的公共建筑，始于青铜时代晚期，并在随后的几个世纪一直持续到公元前700年左右。在2007-2009年实地调查的基础上，现在计划在2010-12年再进行一个挖掘季节和两个研究季节，以使我们能够恢复足够的数据并对其进行处理，准备发布。我们将界定连续两座LBA建筑的性质，并根据它们的文物和环境含量来处理它们的分层良好的矿藏。在遗址的中心，我们有一系列的占领活动，贯穿了公元前1200年之后的几个世纪；典型的是，在“百年黑暗”中，没有纪念碑结构来区分一个帝国阶段和另一个帝国阶段，但我们将继续跟进圆形木结构结构形状的新建筑传统的出现，而在此之上的分层开放空间序列将提供陶瓷的范围和发展，为我们提供实物年代证据，并使我们能够监测整个时期生存和生产策略的变化。该项目还将展示中央集权国家的控制如何体现在其行政管理的物质足迹中，这种控制的解除如何促使地方生存战略和手工传统的重新确立，以及地方中心如何参与新的商业网络。它将有助于弥合古典考古学和近东考古学这两种不同的西方学术传统之间的人为鸿沟。专门研究赫梯省(C.Glatz)和前希腊爱琴海地区(L.Preston与C.Bouthillier)陶瓷传统的同事将在实地考察期间和出版计划中贡献自己的专业知识。博士后同事(M.M.Hald博士和P.Popkin博士)将继续处理和分析植物学和动物学数据，以便在调查期间首次阐明安纳托利亚的农业、畜牧业和牧业战略。通过这种方式，我们的目标是对地中海东部地区旧世界历史上的主要转折点之一的所有方面都有新的认识，该地区目前几乎完全未被开发。

One of the major turning points in the history of the Old World fell around 1200 BC, when the sophisticated Late Bronze Age palace states in Greece, Anatolia and Syria collapsed. Literate administrations, international commerce and diplomacy vanished overnight, ushering in a long period in which a new order emerged, leading eventually to the Classical world. As in similar circumstances elsewhere, such as post-Roman Britain, the archaeological record of this time, when there was no call for public architecture and little interaction between different regions, is scanty and hard to interpret and to date. Explanations of the general phenomenon of 'systems collapse' and of this particular instance abound, but data are currently too fragmentary in chronological and contextual terms to discriminate between them. The site of Kilise Tepe 45 km north of the Mediterranean coast opposite Cyprus, promises to make a significant contribution. Work in the 1990s showed that the site has substantial architecture from the Hittite Empire, a unique, well-preserved public building from the terminal stage of the Late Bronze Age, and continuing occupation in the subsequent centuries down to about 700 BC. Building on fieldwork in 2007-9, one further season of excavations and two study seasons are now planned for 2010-12 to allow us to recover a sufficient body of data and to process it ready for publication. We will define the nature of the two successive LBA buildings and process their well stratified deposits with their artefactual and environmental contents. At the centre of the site we have a sequence of occupation which carries us through the centuries after 1200 BC; characteristically for the 'Centuries of Darkness' there are no monumental structures to distinguish one imperial phase from another, but we will be following up the appearance of a new architectural tradition in the shape of a circular timber-framed structure, and a stratified sequence of open spaces above this will deliver the range and development of ceramics, give us physical dating evidence, and allow us to monitor changes of subsistence and production strategies through this time. The project will also show how the control of a centralized state can be reflected in the material footprint of its administration, how the dissolution of that control invites a reassertion of local subsistence strategies and artisanal traditions, and how a local centre can become involved in new commercial networks. It will help to bridge the artificial divide between the separate western academic traditions of Classical and Near Eastern archaeology. Colleagues specializing on the ceramic traditions of the Hittite provinces (C. Glatz), and the Pre-Hellenic Aegean (L. Preston with C. Bouthillier) will contribute their own expertise both during the field seasons and to the publication programme. Post-doctoral colleagues (Dr M.M. Hald and Dr. P. Popkin) will continue to process and analyse the botanical and faunal data so as to illuminate agricultural, stock-breeding and pastoral strategies in Anatolia for the first time during the periods under investigation. In this way we aim to throw new light on all aspects one of the principal turning points in the history of the Old World in a part of the eastern Mediterranean which at present is almost completely unexplored.