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THE KERKENES DAG MONOGRAPH PROGRESS REPORT, October 5 1997 Geoffrey Summers This progress report outlines the chapters and sections of the book as currently envisaged. The book is expected to total around 300 pages, to have dual English and Turkish text in adjacent columns and to contain a large number of full colour images. The precise model is the Brochure on the project produced by the İş Bank, although it is expected that the quality of both the printing and the colour separation can be improved on. The general model is Peter Neve’s Hattusa Stadt der Gotter und Temple, von Zarben 1993 The book will probably be produced in Turkey. Some initial approaches have already been made to potential sponsors or donors for production costs, we will soon have a sample mock up of a couple of chapters around which further approaches and negotiations can proceed. Intended readership is: 1. professional, academic, archaeologists, anthropologists, ancient historians and art historians with interests in the general archaeology of Anatolia and the Near East, the Iron Age and Hellenistic periods of Anatolia; Iran, the Black Sea and the Aegean. 2. archaeologists with interests in the application of new technologies, especially remote sensing, GIS analysis and image enhancement, 3. undergraduate and graduate students, 3. An educated lay public with interests in ancient Anatolia and its neighbours. The aim of the book is to present an overview of the Kerkenes Project and the major results from the first 4 field seasons, 1993-1997. A wide selection of the evidence will be included to support the conclusions reached and to demonstrate the research design and methodological approaches that have been adopted. It is not intended be a complete report on every aspect of the project because the research is continuing. Nor will it contain detailed catalogues of finds, partly because exhaustive descriptions and catalogues are the preserve of specialists and are thus better suited to specialist reports in academic journals and partly because shush detail would be premature. The volume will nevertheless be a substantial and extremely informative contribution that no scholar or layman in the field will be able to ignore. The format is also intended to appeal to a wider readership than would normally take an interest in this area in the expectation that the wider dissemination of knowledge will enhance future support for the project in Turkey and beyond.
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