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Project Overview<\/h3>\n

Kerkenes is a massive urban center\u00a0in highland central Anatolia dating to\u00a0the Iron Age\u00a0that was built, inhabited, and destroyed within perhaps 100 years. Built atop a mountain ridge sacred to the Hittite kings, the site was destroyed during the invasion of Anatolia by the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great. While the affiliation of Kerkenes was uncertain\u00a0for many years, evidence increasingly points to a Phrygian cultural affiliation, connecting the city with Gordion<\/a> far to its west. NSF-funded excavations<\/a> under the direction of Scott Branting of the University of Central Florida aim to understand daily life and city planning within this well planned but short lived urban center.<\/p>\n

The project website can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Environmental Archaeology Lab Member Involvement<\/h3>\n

John M. Marston has directed\u00a0environmental archaeology at Kerkenes since 2010. Numerous volunteers in the EAL have helped to sort Kerkenes samples at\u00a0Boston University, contributing to recent publications. Sydney Hunter<\/a>\u00a0joined the Kerkenes team in the field in summer 2019.<\/p>\n

Related\u00a0Publications<\/h3>\n

2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah R. Graff, Scott Branting, and John M. Marston. Production requires water: material remains of the hydrosocial cycle in an ancient Anatolian city.\u00a0Economic Anthropology <\/em>6(2):234-249.<\/span><\/p>\n

Branting, Scott, Joseph Lehner, Sevil Baltal\u0131 T\u0131rpan, Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Tuna Kalayc\u0131, Sarah R. Graff, Lucas Proctor, Nil\u00fcfer Baturayo\u011flu Y\u00f6ney, Burak As\u0131liskender, Canan \u00c7ak\u0131rlar-Oddens, and John M. Marston. 2019. The Kerkenes Project 2017-2018. In The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume III: Recent Discoveries (2017-2018)<\/i>. Edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon, pp. 99-111. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Branting, Scott, Yasemin \u00d6zarslan, Joseph Lehner, John M. Marston, and Sarah R. Graff. 2019. Kerkenes and Phrygia: old and new directions of research. In Phrygia in Antiquity: From the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Period<\/i>. Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, pp. 539-559. Peeters, Leuven.<\/p>\n

2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Branting, Scott, Joseph Lehner, Sevil Baltal\u0131 T\u0131rpan, Sarah R. Graff, John M. Marston, Tuna Kalayc\u0131, Yasemin \u00d6zarslan, Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Lucas Proctor, and Paige Paulsen. The Kerkenes Project 2015-2016. In The Archaeology of Anatolia: Recent Discoveries (Volume 2)<\/i>. Edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon, in press. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Branting, Scott, Yasemin \u00d6zarslan, Joseph Lehner, John M. Marston, and Sarah R. Graff. Kerkenes and Phrygia: old and new directions of research. In The Phrygian Lands over Time: From Prehistory to the Middle of the 1st Millennium AD<\/i>. Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, in press. Peeters, Leuven.<\/span><\/p>\n

2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Marston, John M., and Scott Branting. Agricultural adaptation to highland climate in Iron Age Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports <\/i>9:25-32.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related Presentations<\/h3>\n

2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Graff, Sarah R., Scott Branting, and John M. Marston. \u201cProduction requires water: water management in an ancient Anatolian city\u201d Paper presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting<\/span><\/p>\n

Branting, Scott, Joseph Lehner, Sevil Baltal\u0131 T\u0131rpan, Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Tuna Kalayc\u0131, Yasemin \u00d6<\/span>zarslan, Sarah Graff, Lucas Proctor, Nil\u00fc<\/span>fer Baturayog\u0306<\/span>lu Y\u00f6<\/span>ney, Burak Asiliskender, Canan \u00c7<\/span>ak\u0131rlar, John M. Marston<\/b>, and Paige Paulsen. \u201cThe 2018 Season of the Kerkenes Project, Turkey\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a0<\/span>Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/p>\n

2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Graff, Sarah R., and John M. Marston. \u201cPhrygian cuisine at Kerkenes: a synthesis of ceramic and botanical evidence for food storage and cooking\u201d\u00a0Paper presented at the\u00a082nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Marston, John M. \u201cAgricultural adaptation during imperial expansion: climate adaptation in Iron Age highland Central Anatolia\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a0116th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America<\/span><\/p>\n

2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Marston, John M. \u201cAgricultural adaptation to climate change in central Turkey, 1500 BCE \u2013 500 CE\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a036th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology<\/span><\/p>\n

Marston, John M. \u201cAgricultural adaptation to climate variation in Iron Age Central Anatolia\u201d Poster\u00a0presented at the\u00a0Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research<\/span><\/p>\n

Marston, John M. \u201cAgricultural adaptation to highland central Anatolia: new data from the Iron Age city of Kerkenes\u201d Poster\u00a0presented at the\u00a078th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology<\/span>
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