This year Boncuklu hosted six students for an accredited five-week fieldschool, through the Institute for Field Research (https://www.ifrglobal.org/), hailing from Australia, Canada, and the United States. They undertook one week of field trips to Çatalhöyük, Hattusa, Alaca, Eflatun Pınar, and a weekend trip to Aşıklı and obsidian sources, trips which […]
Visitor Open Day comes to Boncuklu
Visitor Open Day comes to Boncuklu
Friday 8th August saw the first Visitor Open Day for several years at Boncuklu. Organised by Steve Chaddock and Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, over 80 visitors from Hayıroğlu came to site to find out about the latest developments in the project. Starting in the visitor centre, site guards Mustafa Güven (above) and […]
13 August: Visitor centre construction begins
13 August: Visitor centre construction begins
On a great day for The Boncuklu Project, Mustafa Güven surveys the site of the new visitor centre as construction begins. We will be posting updates as our bijou interpretative facility takes shape.