Turkey's northern edge is a region of contrasts and diversity. From the rugged peaks of the
Pontic mountains and hidden inland valleys to the plains and rocky alcoves of the Black Sea
coast this landscape shaped and was shaped by its inhabitants' ways of life their local
cultural traditions and the ebbs and flows of land-based and maritime networks of interaction.
Between 2009 and 2011 an international team of specialists and students of the Cide
Archaeological Project (CAP) investigated the challenging landscapes of the Cide and Senpazar
districts of Kastamonu province. CAP presents the first systematic archaeological survey of the
western Turkish Black Sea region. The information gathered by the project extends its known
human history by 10 000 years and offers an unprecedented insight into the region's shifting
cultural social and political ties with Anatolia and the Circumpontic. This volume presents
the project's approach and methodologies its results and their interpretation within
period-specific contexts and through a long-term landscape perspective.
