In the 2014 season we are advancing with the next stages of facility development in the areas surrounding the Visitor Centre. We will be posting information regularly as the project advances. A key focus for work this year are two reconstructed Neolithic buildings, coordinated by Prof. Ofer Bar Yosef, which will allow the team to […]
New year, new facilities: Community Heritage Project development
Centre panels and booklet tell a Neolithic story
Our bijou visitor centre is at the heart of the Boncuklu Project Community Heritage Project, in which we aim to provide a discovery space and teaching support materials for visitors young and old to learn about and understand life 10,000 years ago. Visitors to the centre can find out about […]
New centre provides content for Turkish and international visitors
In a ferment of activity during the 2013 excavation season the Boncuklu visitor centre was built and fitted out. Designed by Onur Yilmaz, building of the centre was sponsored by the Sancak/Hedef Alliance, and built by Rasim Usta of Kayseri. Coordinating the interpretation project was Steve Chaddock, of Australian consultants […]
6 SEPTEMBER 2013: BACKFILLING BEGINS
Today was the last day of backfilling. Armed with shovels, wheelbarrows and hundreds and hundreds of sugar sacks we carefully covered the trenches with layers of geotex and soil. We used the sugar sacks to protect features, walls and sections. The trenches are backfilled each year to protect them from […]