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Published:30/06/2025Language:EnglishPages:649, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour.BAR Number: S3224Series: BAR International Series

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Kinet Höyük 7: The Medieval Period, Parts i and ii

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Bilkent University Excavations at Kinet Höyük, Hatay, Turkey

Edited by Scott Redford

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This book presents the final report on Medieval period excavations at Kinet Höyük in Hatay province, southern Turkey. The region was contested between the Crusader Principality of Antioch, the Knights Templar, the Kingdom of Armenian Cilicia, and the Mamluk Sultanate. Sources from this period mention Medieval Kinet (Arabic al-Tina, Latin Canamella) as a port exporting timber from the nearby Amanos Mountains. Four habitation levels spanned the mid-12th to early 14th centuries: three of them ending in conflagration and destruction. Its location on the Mediterranean and the main road between Anatolia and Northern Syria led to the recovery of ceramics, coins, and other objects from around the eastern Mediterranean, inland Syria, and beyond. The combination of its stratigraphic excavation and careful analyses of a wide range of materials and objects affords rare insights into economy, settlement, warfare, and many other aspects of life in this region at the time of the Crusades.

This volume is part of a two-part set: ISBN 9781407363363 (Part i); ISBN 9781407363370 (Part ii); ISBN 9781407362571 (Set of both volumes).

About the Editor

Scott Redford is the Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focuses on the Medieval period in the regions of modern-day Turkey, the southern Caucasus, northern Mesopotamia, Syria, and Iran.

List of Contributors: Günhan Börekçi, Jacques Burlot, Canan Çakırlar, Franca Cole, Zeynep Dörtbudak, Marie-Henriette Gates, Ümit Güder, Alistair Hill, Salima Ikram, Pagona Papadopoulou, Amanda Phillips, Ioanna Rapti, Scott Redford, Marijke van der Veen, Sylvie Yona Waksman.

Reviews

‘The technical and careful work done on all of the archaeological data contributes substantially to the corpus of data on the medieval Middle East. The work is significant, as little has been done in the region that is so fully published. This has significance for comparative work with Greece, Cyprus, Anatolia, and the Levant.’ Dr Marica Cassis, University of Calgary

‘This book is a major contribution to our understanding of this key region at the intersection of the medieval Christian and Muslim worlds. In particular it enhances our understanding of the economics and culture of rural fortified settlements away from the major fortresses which dominate much of the research in this field. Most importantly this book shows that archaeology can provide a wealth of information about a site which is all but invisible in the written historical record.’ Professor Andrew Petersen, University of Bradford