Maşat höyük (mound), near the village of Maşat in the district of Zile in the province of Tokat, was excavated in the summer of 1945 by a party under Dr. Ekrem Akurgal, assistant professor of archaeology in this university, and including. Drs. Nimet and Tahsin Özgüç. This höyük contains oceupation levels belonging to the Chalcolithic, Copper, Hittite and Phrygian periods. In the copper age level 7 skeletal remains have been unearthed, five of which have been brought to the writer for study. The excavators state that they have not brought back two badly broken and crushed children's sktletons