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Welcome to The Kerkenes Project Homepage!
Here you will find all about the Kerkenes Project, from 1993 to date. For downloads go to the Kerkenes2 page

http://kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/kerk2/index.html


SITE NAVIGATION

 click for site map

 

INTRODUCTION
Location
Geological Background
Glossary

SELECTED IMAGES
Photographs
Drawings 
Maps

HISTORY
Historical Background
The Date of the "Battle of the Eclipse"
   
EXPLORATION
History of Exploration 
Methods

REMOTE SENSING
Satellite Imagery
Photography From the Air
Geophysical Survey
Global Positioning System (GPS) Survey

EXCAVATIONS
Coring
Trenches
Micromorphology

ARTIFACTS
Pottery 
Metals 
Ivory
Bone 

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

GIS at Kerkenes
Pilot Studies

THE CITY

Urban Studies
Architectural Studies

REGIONAL SURVEY
Methods


PRELIMINARY REPORTS
2009 2003 1997
2008 2002 1996
2007 2001 1995
2006 2000 1994
2005 1999  
2004 1998  

PROJECT PUBLICATIONS
Brochures
Kerkenes News 
WWW Papers
Articles and Chapters

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Project Publications
General Bibliography
Early Reports

SPONSORS
Acknowledgements
Our Sponsors

COLLABORATION
UB Social Systems GIS Laboratory

DOWNLOADS


02 NGS Report




NEW

2009 Kerkenes News

Click here ! 2009 Season Report (eng/tr pdf)

Click here ! 2009 Season Photo Gallery News

HIGHLIGHTS...

Click here ! Kerkenes News 

Click here ! Medes, Lydians, "The Battle of the Eclipse" and the Historicity of Herodotus


Click here ! Kerkenes and the Eclipse - 1999

Click here ! The Kerkenes Dag Project
(Article from ANCIENT ANATOLIA)


Click here ! See also reconstituted digital image of ivory plaque!!

Click here ! AFP Final Report - Photo Rectification and 3D Modelling

Click here !
Rolex Award For Enterprise

Click here ! 2006 Andante Archaeology Award

Click here ! Complete Gradiometer Map

Click here !  Complete 3D Map

Click here !  Complete GPS Map



THE KERKENES PROJECT  

Faculty of Architecture,
Middle East Technical University,
06531 Ankara, TURKEY
Tel: +90 312 210 6216   Fax: +90 312 210 1249

or
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Tahran  Caddesi 24, Kavaklidere,
06700 Ankara, TURKEY
Tel: +90 312 427 5487   Fax: +90 312 428 0159
e-mail: ingark-o@tr-net.net.tr

  

DIRECTORS

Geoffrey Summers
Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at
the State University of New York at Buffalo

and
Settlement Archaeology Graduate Program
Institute of Social Sciences

Middle East Technical University.
Tel/Fax: +90 312 210 1485
e-mail: summers@metu.edu.tr

Francoise Summers

Dept. of Architecture,
Middle East Technical University.
e-mail: fsummers@metu.edu.tr


Musa Ozcan (Excavations 1996 - 1999)

Director of Yozgat Museum,
Yozgat, TURKEY
Tel/Fax: +90 354 212 2773

  

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS

David Stronach - (1999 - 2003)
Professor of Near Eastern Studies,
University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94750-1940, USA.
Tel: +1 510 642 7794, Fax: +1 510 643 8430

Scott Branting
IGERT GIScience Fellow (2002-2003)
State University of New York at Buffalo
380 MFAC, Ellicott Complex
Buffalo, NY 14261-0005 USA
Office Phone: 716 645 3786
Lab Phone/Fax: 716 645 2511
Web Page

PARTICIPANTS

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Specialists
Ministry of Culture Representatives

Team 2009
Team 2008
Team 2007
Team 2006
Team 2005
Team 2004

Team 2003
Team 2002
Team 2001
Team 2000
Team 1999

Team 1998
Team 1997
Team 1996
Team 1995
Team 1994

 




 

   

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