Builder Rasim Usta lays the first bricks of the Boncuklu visitor centre! Designed for small groups of school children and Neolithic enthusiasts the visitor centre should be ready for business in September!
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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.
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12 AUGUST 2013 Back to work: burials galore
12 AUGUST 2013 Back to work: burials galore
Yesterday the team reassembled refreshed and overfed after the Ramzan (Ramadan) holiday, known as the Şeker Bayramı (the sugar festival; the same event is known in Arabic as Eid al-Fitr). We immediately got to work uncovering a series of burials in Trenches H and P, with that in H, preserving […]
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30 JULY 2013: PLANS IN MOTION
30 JULY 2013: PLANS IN MOTION
One of the main aims for the Boncuklu Project is to present early Neolithic archaeology to a wıder audience, and specifically to the local community. One of many projects in the pipeline is the creation of a visitor centre. After months of planning, architect Onur Yılmaz arrived on site today, blueprints […]
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Second truck causes internet chaos
Second truck causes internet chaos
For the second time in 4 weeks an overloaded truck destroyed our phone line at BK central last night! Our emergency internet squad will be posting from an internet cafe in Çumra until it is fixed. In the meantime the dig team will have to resort to old fashioned devices like conversation to […]
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Boncuklu education project featured in Australian media
Boncuklu education project featured in Australian media
Boncuklu’s Australian based site interpretation team have been featured in Queensland newspaper The Hinterland Times. The story can be accessed here and features the work of Timeline Heritage’s Steve Chaddock and Adrian Anderson as well as author/cartoonist Peter Carnavas and project co-director Andy Fairbairn
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2013 dig season approaching….
2013 dig season approaching….
It is time to undo the work of last year (see above) and remove the backfill from Boncuklu’s trenches as the 2013 excavation is just around the corner! This year we have a large multi-national team digging from July 15th to September 11th. We will be digging 3 Neolithic houses, a […]
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Ambassador visits Aussie Diggers
Ambassador visits Aussie Diggers
How fortunate for us that the Australian Ambassador to Turkey is keenly interested in archaeological sites.
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TRT filming in 2012 on Boncuklu site
TRT filming in 2012 on Boncuklu site
August 2012 Turkish television station TRT come to Boncuklu to capture footage for a program.