The bulding type discussed in this article is seen over a long period in the Neolithic Era, from the EN to the LN, at centres such as Bademağacı, Höyücek and Hacılar in the Burdur Region. It is usually rectangular and the door is in the centre of the long wall and has an oven opposite the door. The earliest examples of this building type with an oven in the Burdur Region in the Neolithic Period have been identified from the Early Neolithic 3 (EN 3) level at Bademağacı. One of the important characteristics of the building type under discussion is its rectangular plan which is a little distorted in the Bademağacı buildings but clearer with straighter sides in the Höyücek and Hacılar examples. Apart from the addition of a stone foundation at Hacılar VI, the building materials appear to be similar in all the settlements. The combined use of plano-convex and rectangular bricks is seen at Bademağacı, Höyücek and Hacılar. However, the technique of constructing a wall by spreading mud to form layers is only seen at Bademağacı. It has been confirmed that wood used in all three settlements for door thresholds and supports. The roofs of the houses are thought to have been flat, constructed by forming a frame from tree trunks and branches, which was then covered with clay. The architectural traditions of the neighbouring areas in the Neolithic Period, however, are somewhat different. The as yet only partially excavated pre-EN3 levels at Bademağacı could give some idea of the prototypes of this building type. Bademağacı is only 40-50 km, as the crow flies, away from Beldibi in the Antalya Region, where the first pottery making experiments took place prior to the Neolithic Period. It is very likely that people left the coastal strip of the Mediterranean, which was not suitable for agriculture, crossed over to the north of the Taurus Mountains and, finding the small plain on which Bademağacı is situated to be suitable for agriculture, set up the first villages.

Dokuma sanayi, insanlık tarihi kadar eski bir sanayi dalıdır. Zira giyim-kuşam ihtiyacı insanların hayatlarını sağlıklı bir biçimde sürdürmeleri için gerekli olan yeme, giyinme ve barınma ihtiyaçlarından birini teşkil etmektedir. Arkeolojik çalışmalar, dokuma sanayinin çok eski devirlere kadar uzandığını ortaya koymuştur. Bunlardan birisi de sanayi dalında çalışan birçok dokuma işçisinin adlarını ve bu işçilerin meslekleri ile ilgili bilgileri kapsayan Asurlular dönemine ait tabletlerde Sargon devrine dair Akad dili ile yazılmış kitabelerdir. Bu tablet ve kitabelerde dokuma sanayinde çalışan işçilerle, Asur kraliyet ailesi fertleri arasındaki ilişkiler hakkında bilgilere rastlandığı gibi, o devirde faaliyet gösteren dokuma atölyeleri ve özel dokuma fabrikaları ile ilgili geniş malumat verilmektedir.

Bademağacı Höyüğü kazılarının 7. dönem çalışmalarına, 25 Temmuz/15 Eylül 1999 tarihleri arasında devam edildi. Başkanlığını yaptığımız kazı kurulu, Doç.Dr.Gülsün Umurtak (Başkan Yardımcısı ve arazî çalışmaları sorumlusu) ile Nuran Salar (Doktora öğrencisi), Angela Bell (Yüksek Lisans öğr.), Sabahattin Ezer (Y.L. öğr.), Işıl Demirtaş (Arkeoloji lisanslı), Murat Nabi Durmaz (Arkeoloji lis.), Nilüfer Sayıt (öğr.), Nurhayat Cinli (öğr.). Doğan Güneş (öğr.), ve Nilüfer Kızık'tan (restorasyon öğr.) oluşuyordu. Anıtlar ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü temsilci olarak, Antalya Müzesi Uzmanlarından Nermin Çolak'ı görevlendirmişti. Kazı fotoğraflarının bir kısmı ile, küçük buluntularının resimleri, İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinden, Fotoğraf Uzmanı, meslektaşımız Turhan Birgili tarafından çekildi. Kazıyı gerçekleştirmede emeği geçen tüm ekip üyelerine en içten teşekkürlerimi sunuyorum.

During the 1987 campaign of the excavations at Samsat Höyük, the largest settlement in the lower Euphrates basin, conducted by Professor Dr. Nimet Özgüç in the framework of the archaelogical salvage project, a hieroglyphic seal impression has been found, which added a new document to the relatively poor repertory of written material of this important mound.

From April II to May 1, 1980 I had the opportunity to study the ancient glass vessels on exhibit it the Bölge Museum at Adana. After having verified the inventory numbers of circa one hundred vessels which I sketched in the summer of 1979, I drew and described all remaining vessels on display, excepting one bowl of reticella glass and sixteen core-glass vessels of the Greek and Hellenistic periods. Wherever it was possible, the inventory or acquisition numbers were identified, including those of the core-glass vessels. I did not study the numerous glass beads, bracelets and other objects in the museum.

A bronze dagger and haft with a terminus reminiscent of a hammer (İ/85-206) was uncovered upon the right hand and forearm of a skeleton (Sk. 581, extended with head to the west) from a modest earthen inhumation. This burial in grid-square D-2/IV-10 (b. 2267) on Mound I of İkiztepe was excavated during the 1985 campaign at the site.

The publication of Maşat Höyük II soon after Maşat Höyük I completes the detailed account of the excavation of the palace and citadel of this important site and includes an appendix on the 1981 season which was only concluded while this volume was being published. Since the chance find of a tablet by a school teacher in 1943, now well-known as the Maşat letter, the archaeological and historical potential of the site was quickly recognised by the Turkish Historical Society and it has been particularly fortunate that Professor Özgüç has conducted excavations here since 1973.