Current and past projects supported by the BIAA

	Çatalhöyük Project Project Director: Professor Ian Hodder (Stanford University) The project involves the survey, excavation and conservation of this Neolithic site. The aim is to continue to study the organisation and growth of communities. View Project Website
	Çatalhöyük: Konya Plain Survey Project Director: Dr Douglas Baird (University of Liverpool) The project aims to investigate the settlement history of the area and to place Çatalhöyük in its historical and contemporary context. The survey addresses issues of population fluctuation and economic structures of societies on the Konya plain. View Project Website
	Akkerman fortress project, Ukraine Project Director: Dr Caroline Finkel (c/o British Institute at Ankara) and Dr Svitlana Bilyayeva (Institute of Archaeo The project brings together archaeological investigation and documentary study to ascertain the evolution and characteristics of this ancient site, with particular concentration on the neglected Ottoman period.
	Amorium Excavation Project Project Director: Dr Christopher Lightfoot (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) The aim is to investigate all aspects of this site in eastern Phrygia, whilst concentrating on revealing evidence for the size and nature of the Byzantine city. There is an on-going programme of conservation for the excavated structures. View Project Website
	Anastasian Wall Project and the Water supply of Constantinop Project Director: James Crow (University of Newcastle) This study of the Thracian hinterland of Constantinople in the late antique and Byzantine periods incorporates survey of the wall with a study of the water supply system of the city. View Project Website
	Çatalhöyük: West Mound Project Project Director: Dr Jonathan Last (Çatalhöyük Research Project, University of Cambridge) The project involves the excavation of an Early Chalcolithic building discovered on the West mound at Çatalhöyük in order to contribute to a broader understanding of prehistoric settlement at the site. View Project Website
	Climate, vegetation and landscape change in northern Turkey Project Director: Dr Warren Eastwood (University of Birmingham) This project attempts to increase our knowledge and understanding of climate-human-vegetation-landscape interactions in northeastern Turkey and adjoining regions. View Project Website
	Cnidus Project Project Director: Dr Ian Jenkins (The British Museum) The aim of the project is to better understand the context of objects acquired by the British Museum in 1857-1859 with a view to publishing a review of the site together with a catalogue. View Project Website
	Domuztepe Excavations Project Director: Dr Stuart Campbell (University of Manchester) The project aims to investigate this 20ha prehistoric site (c.6,000-4,000bc) near Kahramanmaras. The key focus is how such a large site functioned, both as part of its local and its wider environment.
	Early Pleistocene environments in the Gediz river valley Project Director: The idenification of a perfectly preserved Early Pleistocene river terrace record presents a unique opportunity to study this time period in the eastern Mediterranean. The investigation will examine outcrops for biostratigraphical/ palaeoecological and other climate-proxy data.
	Göksu Archaeological Project Project Director: Dr Hugh Elton (BIAA/Trent University) The project is investigating the upper Göksu valley in Cilicia, using intensive and extensive survey techniques to examine changes in settlement patterns over time. View Project Website
	Kerkenes Dag Project Project Director: Dr Geoff Summers (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) The project combines large area geophysical survey with tightly controlled test excavation and geomorphological survey in order to ascertain the plan and nature of this Iron Age mountain-top city. View Project Website
	Kibyratis in Antiquity Project Project Director: Dr Thomas Corsten (University of Heidelburg) An examination of the epigraphical and other evidence will help to establish the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Kibyratis.
	Oylum Höyük Project Project Director: Dr Alan Greaves (University of Liverpool) Excavation of a massive Hellenistic building on the summit of Oylum Höyük as part of an international project with German and Turkish scholars. View Project Website
	Pichvnari Excavation Project Director: Michael Vickers (Ashmolean Museum) Pichvnari is a Greco-Colchian settlement on the Georgian Black Sea coast. The project aims to explore the cemeteries of this important trading town. View Project Website
	Pinarbasi Excavation Project Director: Douglas Baird (University of Liverpool) Excavations at Pinarbasi, a site dated to the late 9th millennium, aim to help establish the origins of sedentary and agricultural communities in central Anatolia. View Project Website
	Project Paphlagonia Project Director: Dr Roger Matthews (UCL) The project is an investigation by extensive and intensive regional survey of multi-period and thematic issues, ranging from prehistory to modern, in the region of southern Paphlagonia in north-central Anatolia. View Project Website
	Ziyaret Lower Town Project Project Director: Dr John MacGinnis (McDonald Institute of Archaeological research, Cambridge) The aim of the project is to chart the archaeological remains of the primarily Middle/Neo Assyrian lower town at Ziyaret by field walking and by stratigraphic soundings, and to carry out one large area excavation each season.
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	Kilise Tepe Project Director: Professor Nicholas Postgate (University of Cambridge) Following five years of excavation, the project is now focussed on post-excavation and pre-publication work of this multi-period site. View the Leverhulme Brak/Kilise Tepe Project Report (directed by Nicholas Postgate and Roger Matthews). View Project Website