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Kerkenes News 2008
Edited by
Geoffrey and Françoise Summers
Participants
Murat Akar
Emre Avcıoğlu
Gökben Aykanat
Sema Bağcı
Kayahan Baskın
Susanne Berndt-Ersöz
Scott Branting
Claude Brixhe
Ferhat Can
Nurdan A. Çayırezmez
Ben Claasz Coockson
Ali Çınkı
Ahmet Çinici
Catherine Draycott
Güzin Eren
Tuna Kalaycı
Joseph Lehner
Astride Letrange
Christine Markussen
David Monsees
Yasemin Özarslan
Susan Penacho
Evangelia I. Pişkin
Melissa Rosenzweig
Katie Simon
Noël Siver
Geoffrey Summers
Françoise Summers
Natalie Summers
Pamela Summers
Lee Ullmann
Nilüfer B. Yöney
Alexandra Witsell
G. Bike Yazıcıoğlu
Şafak Acar
Aysun Akkaya
Özlem Bağcı
Pınar Balat
Özgün Balkanay
Özgecan Canarslan
Çağrı Çakır
Gülistan Durmaz
Soofia T. Elias-Özkan
Erman Erdemli
Sajjad Haider
Tuğrul Karagüzel
Asuman Korkusuz
Güner Mutaf
Korkut Mutaf
Meryem Özkan
Françoise Summers
Zahraa Saiyed
Özün Taner
Arda Tatlı
Eco-Center
Kerkenes Haberler 2008
Translated by
Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney
In 2008 Yozgat Museum Acting Director Hasan Şenyurt made an entire gallery available for display of the best Iron Age finds from Kerkenes: the statue, Phrygian inscription and fragments of relief sculpture (Figs 1 and 2). Fittingly, at the end of the year, a handsome volume on sculpture and inscriptions appeared and is also accessible
online, free of charge, from the publication section of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (Fig. 3). Other notable events were a visit, in July, from the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ertuğrul Günay, and the Kerkenes Autumn Festival, in October, organised by Yozgat Governor Amir Çiçek which was attended by the Ambassadors of Australia, Canada and Great Britain.
Spring saw continuation of geophysical survey around the Palatial Complex and inside the Cappadocia Gate followed by further study of the urban street network for which Scott Branting excavated Transportation Test Trenches in the northestern sector of the city (Fig. 4). At the cutting edge of science in archaeology is Seppi Lehner's innovative study of Kerkenes metals based on
non-destructive chemical extraction of trace elements. Lastly, much energy was expended on study of fi nds and preparation of final excavation reports.
Intensive activities of the Kerkenes Eco-Center are also reported in this issue of the Kerkenes News. Inspiration came from Halet Çambel who used archaeology at another Iron Age city, Karatepe near Adana, as a base for pioneering development of rural communities who were to benefi t from what today we term Cultural Assets. At Kerkenes, as is fi tting for current times, the emphasis is on
appropriate technology and renewable energy leading to sustainable rural development.
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