Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

5/1/1990 - 5/31/1993

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$110,000.00 (approved)
$110,000.00 (awarded)


Gultepe, The Excavation of a Special Function Site: The Production and Exchange of Tin

FAIN: RO-22105-90

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

To support excavation and study in the Taurus Mountains of an early Bronze Age settlement (Gultepe, Turkey) opposite a tin mine (Kestel), to answer questions about early metallurgy and trading patterns in the ancient Near East.