Türkmen-Karahöyük

James F. Osborne therefore started the Türkmen-Karajöyük Intensive Survey Project (TISP) in 2018, and the site was examined in more detail in the summer of 2019.

Based on the ceramics found, and an inscription in hieroglyphic Luwian language script, it was shown that the site was important from the Bronze Age to antiquity.

The Konya plain was a well-watered and fertile region in ancient times, and Türkmen-Karahöyuk was located on the northern shore of the now dried-up Lake Hotamış.

[1] The oldest datable finds date from the late Chalcolithic period around 4500 BC; they were found at the foot of the hill.

There are also some palaces of Konya-Karahöyük (a separate site about 50 km to the northwest of Türkmen-Karahöyük) that date to the Old Assyrian Trading Colony (karum) period.