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ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Connecting Lycia's Past and Present
Thursday April 19, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM | Stanford Archaeology Center

The Turkish region of Lycia sits at the corner between Anatolia, the Aegean and the wider Mediterranean at large, occupying a unique geographical setting between land and sea. For much of its history of occupation, however, surprisingly little is known. The Çaltılar Archaeological Project is examining the material culture, environment, and settlement history of pre-Classical Lycia, contributing significant knowledge concerning the occupation and development of this region of Turkey. However, this new understanding raises issues for the future of the region and its local population, who desire increased touristic development, for the area has as much to lose as to gain from such developments. Through an in-depth case study of the Project’s work at the site of Çaltılar itself, this presentation explores the nature of Lycia’s regional and international connections in the past and present, and considers the region’s future prospects.


Biography

Dr Tamar Hodos is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bristol, England. She is a specialist in the archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age. Her areas of focus have been Sicily, Italy, Turkey and North Africa, and her research encompasses themes such as post-colonialism, globalization and identity. She is the author of Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean (Routledge, 2006) and co-editor (with S. Hales) of Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She is co-director of the Çaltılar Archaeological Project in Lycia, Turkey.