Abstract
The fortified hilltop site of Kaymakci, located in the middle Gediz River valley in central Western Turkey, was discovered during a regional survey in 2001, and has been systematically excavated since 2014. Accompanied by several other smaller forts around the Marmara Lake, the site offers not only a long awaited new stratigraphic sequence complementing the material knowledge from Troy and Beycesultan, but being located in a region thought to be the core of the Šeha River Land known from Hittite texts, it may contribute to better understanding of the scarce written info.
The paper will roughly explain the main aims and expectations of the project led by the Boston University and the Koç University in Istanbul, it will describe the fully digital way of recording, as well as the first results after the first 5 years of excavation.