2024 ASOR Annual Meeting Plenary | Fikri Kulakoğlu
00:01:35 | Welcome remarks by Andy Vaughn (Executive Director)
00:06:35 | Speaker introduction by Sharon Herbert (President)
00:11:50 | Plenary (Fikri Kulakoğlu)
01:05:15 | Questions & Answers
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Wednesday, November 20
7:00 – 8:30pm EST | Boston Park Plaza
Fikri Kulakoğlu (Professor of Archaeology at Ankara University, director of the Kültepe excavations since 2006 and an expert of Central Anatolian archaeology of the Bronze Age).
Dr. Fikri Kulakoğlu is an Ancient Near Eastern archaeologist and a lecturer at Ankara University. His current research interests include mainly “Early Bronze Age”, “Assyrian Trade Colony Period in Anatolia” and “Hittite Archaeology and Culture”.
He has participated in several major excavations in Anatolia such as Samsat, Acemhöyük, Kaman-Kalehöyük and Kültepe-Kanesh.
After Tahsin Özgüç, he was appointed director of the Kültepe excavations in 2006. Since 2009, the second-term excavations at Kültepe have focused mainly on the mound, confirming that a number of monumental structures adorned Kanesh and that an international trade network was already established in the Early Bronze Age. The new research strategy at Kültepe is based on a multidisciplinary approach and cooperation, open to all disciplines willing to collaborate, either to contribute to the understanding of the site or to test their own modalities.