K. Aslıhan Yener, often anglicised as K. Aslihan Yener, is a Turkish American archaeologist whose work on Bronze Age tin mines in Anatolia revealed a new possible source of the important metal.
Education and career edit
Yener was born in Istanbul to Turkish parents, and moved to the United States, in New Rochelle, New York at the age of six months. In 1964, she entered Adelphi University in Garden City, New York planning to study chemistry. Soon she visited her native Turkey and subsequently transferred to Robert College in Istanbul in 1966, where she studied the humanities. While studying a course in Roman ruins in Turkey, she noticed and became interested in the earlier prehistoric periods at those sites. After graduating from Robert College in 1969 she continued graduate school and majored in archaeology. She received her PhD from Columbia University in New York in 1980, and was an associate professor of history at Boğaziçi University from 1980 to 1988. Aslıhan Yener became a professor of Anatolian Archaeology in the Archaeology and History of Art Dept. at Koç University and an associate professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute.[1][2]
She is currently an emeritus associate professor at the University of Chicago.[3]
Book edit
Yener is the author of the book The domestication of metals: the rise of complex metal industries in Anatolia (Brill, 2000).[4]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Yener, Aslihan (1946–)", Encyclopedia.com, Cengage, retrieved 2020-09-19
- ^ Curriculum vitae, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 2008-09-06
- ^ Aslihan K. Yener, Emerita Associate Professor of Anatolian Archaeology, University of Chicago, retrieved 2020-09-19
- ^ Reviews of The domestication of metals: the rise of complex metal industries in Anatolia:
- Bonatz, Dominik (2001), Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), 151 (1): 209–211, JSTOR 43380264
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dercksen, Jan Gerrit (2003), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 46 (4): 540–543, JSTOR 3632833
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Muhly, James D. (October 2001), American Journal of Archaeology, 105 (4): 729–730, doi:10.2307/507426, JSTOR 507426
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Yakar, Jak (November 2001), Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 324: 114–117, doi:10.2307/1357636, JSTOR 1357636
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- Bonatz, Dominik (2001), Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), 151 (1): 209–211, JSTOR 43380264
External links edit
- The Göltepe/Kestel Project
- Tin Smelting at the Oriental Institute
- Swords, Armor, and Figurines: A Metalliferous View from the Central Taurus
- Faculty Page at University of Chicago
- Yener, K. Aslihan (2000). The domestication of metals : the rise of complex metal industries in Anatolia. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-11864-0 – via Archive.org.