Abstract:
The Porsuk-Zeyve Höyük project (Niğde prefecture) in southern Cappadocia is the oldest French excavation still in
operation in Turkey. The archaeological site is situated on Zeyve Höyük, which belongs to the small southern
Cappadocian village of Porsuk (in the Niğde province, 14 km east of the subprefecture of Ulukışla), and rests at the
base of the central part of the Taurus Mountains (Bolkar Dağları) (Fig. 11-1) (Dupré 1983: 13; Pelon & Dupré 1987:
14). It is located 40 km from the Cilician Gates (Gülek Boğazı), the famous pass between the Anatolian plateau and
Cilicia (Lebreton 2013).