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1999 

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KERKENES NEWS 1999

New initiatives at Kerkenes in 1999 brought big surprises and a far greater understanding of this Iron Age mountain-top city. The General Directorate of Museums and Monuments issued a permit for the clearance of monuments to Musa Özcan, Director of the Yozgat Museum, and a survey permit to Project Director, Geoffrey Summers. We were extremely fortunate to have as our representative Dursun Çaglar, of the Eskisehir Museum, and extend to him out heartfelt thanks for supervising the day-to-day clearance of monuments and for enthusiastically participating in all aspects of the project. At a local level we were greatly aided, both in the research and in the organisation of a huge party in celebration of the August 11 total solar eclipse, by the Acting Governor of Yozgat, Mahmut Kiliçdogan; the Yozgat Director of Culture, Selime Dogan, and the Director of the Cultural Centre, Mustafa Erdogan; the Director of Yozgat Directorate of Rural Services, Vahap Özkul the District Governor of Sorgun, Mustafa Dündar and the Mayors of Yozgat, Sorgun and Dedefakili, Mehmet Erdemir, Yilmaz Kiliçarslan and Mustafa Özyalçin.

An exciting development has been the addition to the project of a team from the University of California at Berkeley, led by David Stronach. A further boost has been the acquisition of a long wheel-base Project Landrover. The project is officially under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara which, through its Director, Roger Matthews, and lynch pins Gülgün Kazan and Gina Coulthard, provides support at every level. The METU Faculty of Architecture has provided a project room.

 
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Figure 1
The sloping dry-stone glacis west of the Cappadocia Gate. Spaces between large cyclopean-like face stones are carefully chinked with smaller stones.

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