The research under the Settlement History of Anatolia SRI is addressing important questions about man’s changing relationship with the environment, the formation of large-scale settlements, and how town and countryside relate. 

Current Projects

	Amorium 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.
	Avkat Professor John Haldon (Princeton University) By studying ancient landscapes, water sources and soils, the team at Avkat is seeking to understand howancient people used their land and how modern resources can be exploited in an environmentally friendly way
	Boncuklu  Dr Douglas Baird (University of Liverpool) The aim of the excavations at Boncuklu is to try to understand the factors underlying the transition from mobile hunting and gathering to agricultural farming, as well as carrying out an exploration of the art in these early villages.
	Çatalhöyük   Professor Ian Hodder (Stanford University/UCL) 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.
	Çaltılar Dr Nicoletta Momigliano, Dr Tamar Hodos (Bristol University), Dr Alan Greaves (University of Liverpool) Through an intensive, systematic archaeological survey of the site of Çaltılar, at the top of the Xanthos river valley, this project aims to provide substantial new knowledge concerning the settlement history and material culture of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Lycia, SW Turkey, and to explore the role of this region within the context of broader East Mediterranean-Anatolian-Aegean developments and interactions in these early periods.
	Cnidus 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.
	Domuztepe 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.
	Kerkenes 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.
	Kilise Tepe 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).
	Pisidia Survey Project Dr Lutgarde Vandeput (BIAA) The Pisidia Survey Project has run for over 20 years, exploring the region of Pisidia in South Western Turkey and documenting the ancient cities and regions of the area.
	Water Supply of Constantinople James Crow (Edinburgh University) 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.
	Ziyaret 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.
Past Projects
	Goksu Dr Hugh Elton (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.
	Oylum Hoyuk 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.
	Pichvnari 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.
	Pinarbasi 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.
	Project Paphlagonia 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.