Alaça Hüyük

 
Like Yazilikaya and Hattusas, this exceptionally interesting archeological site, halfway between Bogazkale and Çorum, forms part of the Tasari National Park. Alaça Hüyük's importance lies chiefly in its finds from the period prior to the Hittite migrations. Rediscovered by Hamilton in 1836, the 330m/1,083ft-wide hüyük has since been researched and excavated several times; it comprises fourteen different levels representing four cultures.

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Alaça Hüyük was evidently first occupied in the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. (early Bronze Age) and remained so until the collapse of the Hittite Empire (1200 B.C.). For a brief period in the ninth and eighth centuries B.C. it was the site of a Phrygian settlement.

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