Field Activities in 2011 and 2012

The third and the fourth season of excavation at Kojtepa amongst the others, had the following objectives aimed at investigating: 1. the top of the tepe in order to find earlier architectural and material culture (Trench no 5), the extended area to the same Trench, according to the general grid of the site put down; 2. the area of the southern fortification earthen wall in order to possibly identify its architectural evidence (length, width and height) (Trench no 6, Trench no 6 Ext. South, Trench no 6 Ext. North) the un-excavated Eastern Half, and the partially excavated Western Half of the same Trench; 3. the flat area between the encircling wall and the central tepe closed to the earliest trenches (Trench no 7); 4. Trench no 8 to the West of Trench no 6; 5. the area between the main tepe and the North-Eastern corner of the encircling wall, Trench no 9, with different successive extensions; 6. as much as dating material culture possible, in order to achieve a more detailed typological and possibly chronological stratigraphic differentiation.