Anadolu’da John Garstang’ın Ayak İzleri John Garstang’s Footsteps Across Anatolia

Anadolu’da John Garstang’in Ayak Izleri Ingiliz arkeolog Prof. John Garstang’in Türkiye ve Yakindogu’daki arkeolojik çalismalarinin uluslararasi katkilarini anlatmayi amaçlamaktadir. Arkeolojik kayitlarin dogrulugu için fotograf sanatinin kullanilmasini ilk savunanlardan biridir. Türkiye’de yaptigi Anadolu Yüzey Arastirmasi (1907) ve Sakçagözü kazisini (1908-1911) Alman asistani Horst Schliephack ile beraber gerçeklestirmistir. Liverpool Üniversitesi tarafindan yapilan ve bes yildan uzun süren arastirmanin sonucu olarak bu kitap Garstang’in Türkiye ve Yakin Dogu’daki islerini anlatan kisa makaleler ile 1907’de Anadolu’da yaptigi gezide hazirladigi, artik dijitallestirilebilmis olan cam plaka negatiflerden olusmaktadir. Garstang’in fotograflari Türkiye ve Kuzey Suriye’de Geç Osmanli Dönemi’nde bulunan arkeolojik kazi alanlari, peyzaj ve insanlarin essiz birer kaydidir. John Garstang’s Footsteps Across Anatolia aims to highlight the international contributions of John Garstang towards the study of archaeology in Turkey and the Near East. He was one of the first advocates of using photography as a means of documenting procedures and findings of archaeological excavations. In Turkey, Garstang was accompanied on his Anatolia Survey (1907) and Sakçagözü excavations (1908-1911) by his German assistant, Horst Schliephack. The result of over five years of research by The University of Liverpool, this book presents a series of short discursive articles about Garstang’s work in Turkey and the Near East and a catalogue of newly digitised glass plate negatives from his 1907 journey across Anatolia. Garstang’s photographs are an irreplaceable record of the archaeological sites, landscapes and peoples of Turkey and north Syria in the period of the late Ottoman Empire.