The field scattered with unfinished statues and stone blocks prepeared for sculpture. The quary were used during Hittite Empire period in the Late Bronze Age.
Sources:
- http://www.hittitemonuments.com/karakiz/
- İ.Taş, Ö. Yılmaz, Ö. S. Gavaz. "Identification of an Unfinished Statue Found in a Quarry at Karakiz, Yozgat, Turkey," in
L. Feliu, et al (eds.) Time and History in the Ancient Near East, RAI 56, 2013: 833-38 - http://www.academia.edu/6354910/The_Hittite_Stone_and_Sculpture_Quarry_at_Karak%C4%B1z_Kasabas%C4%B1_and_Hapis_Bo%C4%9Faz%C4%B1_in_the_District_of_Sorgun_Yozgat_Central_Anatolia_GEOFFREY_D._SUMMERS_AND_EROL_%C3%96ZEN