Geomagnetic samples were collected from two contexts, test trench TT15 (Fig. 44) and the Palace Complex. Both locations were excavated in previous years and had evidence of very heavy burning in the final destruction of the city. These samples will be used as part of a geological project by Nuretdin Kaymakçi and Pinar Ertepinar Kaymakçi of METU as part of a wider study of changes in both the direction of magnetic north and in magnetic intensity on the Anatolian Plateau over the last 10,000 years (i.e. the Holocene). Similar dated samples have been collected from a large number of archaeological projects throughout Turkey.


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GEOMAGNETIC DATING STUDY

Geomagnetic samples were collected from two contexts, test trench TT15 (Fig. 44) and the Palace Complex. Both locations were excavated in previous years and had evidence of very heavy burning in the final destruction of the city. These samples will be used as part of a geological project by Nuretdin Kaymakçi and Pinar Ertepinar Kaymakçi of METU as part of a wider study of changes in both the direction of magnetic north and in magnetic intensity on the Anatolian Plateau over the last 10,000 years (i.e. the Holocene). Similar dated samples have been collected from a large number of archaeological projects throughout Turkey.