Program

Research Programs: Archaeology Projects

Period of Performance

4/1/1993 - 4/30/1997

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$145,000.00 (approved)
$115,700.00 (awarded)


The Archaeological Investigation of Tin Production: Prehistoric Metallurgy in South Central Turkey

FAIN: RK-20020-93

Aslihan K. Yener
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)

To support three years of excavation and analysis at Goltepe and the nearby tin mine at Kastel, in Turkey. The nature of metallurgy and exchange systems are the focus at this site, 4th to 2nd millennium B.C.