Fig. 01	Fig. 02	Fig. 03	Fig. 04

     Fieldwork in 2009 was divided between geophysical survey in spring and further excavation at the "Cappadocia Gate" (Fig. 1) in early summer. Work on the ancient Iron Age city located on the Kerkenes Dağ, in the region of Yozgat (Figs 2 and 3) has continued since 1993 when an international team began multi-disciplinary research. The expedition base at Şahmuratlı Village (Fig. 4) is closely associated with the growing Kerkenes Eco-Center. Villagers are employed for geophysical survey, excavations and other expedition tasks.

Geoffrey D. Summers
Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo
and
Settlement Archaeology Graduate Program, METU Institute of Social Sciences
C/o Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06531, Turkey
Office Tel: +90 312 210 6213 Home Tel/Fax: +90 312 210 1485
e-mail: summers@metu.edu.tr

Françoise Summers
Dept. of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06531, Turkey
Office Tel: +90 312 210 2221 Home Tel/Fax: +90 312 210 1485
e-mail: fsummers@metu.edu.tr

Scott Branting
Director, Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL)
The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago
1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Tel: +1 773 834-1152 Fax: +1 773 702-9853
e-mail: branting@uchicago.edu


Participants to the 2009 Field Season

Director: Geoffrey Summers
Co-Director and architect: Françoise Summers
Representative: Şaban Kök
Restoration Architects: Nilüfer B. Yöney
Ahmet Çinici
Geophysicist: Gabriella Carpentiero
Epigraphist: Susanne Bernt-Ersöz
Archaeologists: Ferhat Can
Güzin Eren
Yasemin Özarslan
Lucile Richard
Lee Ullmann
Graduate student: Heidi Ullman
Student: Pamela Summers

Post-fieldwork, research and publication, USA
Co-Director: Scott Branting, CAMEL, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Metal Analysis: Joseph Lehner, UCLA
Conservator: Noel Siver, Berkeley, USA

Post-fieldwork, research and publication, Turkey
Sema Bağcı
Susanne Berndt-Ersöz
Ferhat Can
Ben Claasz Coockson
Berrin Z. Çakmaklı
Ali Çınkı
Ahmet Çinici
Cengiz Doğangönül
Yılmaz Selim Erdal
Güzin Eren
Sajjad Haider
Evangelia Ioannidou Pişkin
Boran Kalay
Françoise Summers
Geoffrey Summers
Nilüfer B. Yöney

Kerkenes Eco-Center Project
We would like to note that collaboration with the Kerkenes Eco-Center team plays a significant role in various aspects of the project and wish to acknowledge the contribution of the 2009 key team members.

Project Director: Françoise Summers
Project Advisor: Soofia Tahira Elias-Özkan
Project Co-ordinator: Asuman Korkusuz
Architect: Özün Taner
Industrial Design: Güner Mutaf and Korkut Mutaf
SAHDER Chairman: Azmi Baştürk

Reports on the activities for the Kerkenes Eco-Center Project appear separately.