1st Workshop for Anatolian Archaeobotany (ANAR)
British Institute in Ankara, 20-21 July 2012
Workshop programme
Day 1
09.30-10.00 Gathering at the BIA.
10.00-10.20 Eleni Asouti – Introduction: the contribution of archaeobotanical and palaeobotanical science
to Turkish archaeology.
10.25-10.45 Andrew S. Fairbairn – The Epipalaeolithic and Aceramic Neolithic of south-central and
southwest Anatolia.
10.50-11.05 Margareta Tengberg and Müge Ergun – First archaeobotanical results from the recent
excavation seasons (2009-2011) at Aşıklı Höyük.
11.10-11.30 Coffee/Tea break
11.30-11.50 Dragana Filipovic – Çatalhöyük: the early to mid-Neolithic phases.
11.55-12.15 Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles – Çatalhöyük: from mid Neolithic to early Chalcolithic.
12.20-12.40 Philippa Ryan – Phytoliths at Çatalhöyük.
12.45-13.05 Warren Eastwood – Pollen analysis at Çatalhöyük.
13.10-15.00 Lunch break
15.00-15.20 Corinna Rößner – A review of the archaeobotanical methodology for investigating the origins
of agriculture.
15.25-15.45 Ceren Kabukcu and Eleni Asouti – Macro-charcoal analysis in Neolithic south-central Anatolia:
current state and future directions.
15.50-16.10 Neil Roberts – Pollen and micro-charcoal evidence from central Anatolia for pre-Bronze Age
vegetation and human impact.
16.15-16.35 Ünal Akkemik – Woods of the Yenikapı shipwrecks.
16.40-17.00 Coffee/Tea break
17.00-18.00 General discussion
18.00 End of Day 1
Day 2
10.00-10.20 Özgür Çizer – Early Bronze Age settlement at Küllüoba, Central Anatolia.
10.25-10.45 Meltem Ustunkaya – Kaman- Kalehöyük: Preliminary results on questioning agricultural stress
in the Hittite heartland.
10.50-11.10 Nathan Wright – Wood charcoal from Kaman-Kalehöyük: preliminary results and interpretation.
11.15-11.35 Melissa Rosenzweig – Imperial environments: a case study from Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey, 1st
millennium BCE.
11.40-12.00 Coffee/Tea Break
12.00-13.00 General discussion & closing comments
14.30 Departure for Cappadocia – Aşikli höyük fieldtrip (from the front entrance of the Aldino hotel)