Charting John Garstang's 'footsteps across Anatolia'

A new exhibition at the Koç University?s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations aims to highlight the international impact of renowned British archaeologist John Garstang on the study of archaeology in Turkey and the Near East Koç University?s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Istanbul has begun an exhibition celebrating the immense contribution of John Garstang, a British scholar, on archaeology in Turkey.

Curated by University of Liverpool faculty archaeologist Alan Greaves, the exhibition consists of photographs and archival materials from the Garstang Museum of Archaeology?s archive and the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), of which Garstang was the founding director. Most of the exhibition content is on display for the first time. 

The exhibition, ?John Garstang?s Footsteps Across Anatolia,? is being organized in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and aims to highlight the contributions of Garstang to the study of archaeology in Turkey and the Near East.  

Garstang was one of the first advocates of using photography as a means of documenting procedures and findings from archaeological excavations. His photos from his survey of Anatolia and northern Syria in 1907 established for the first time the full extent of the ancient Hittite Empire. Over five years, The University of Liverpool has systematically digitized and catalogued thousands of Garstang?s glass plate photographic negatives to create a new archive of ?digital surrogates.? 

 
This is a primary research resource for archaeologists and anthropologists recording the lost monuments and lifestyles of Turkey and northern Syria in the late Ottoman period. Garstang also used photography to show his British sponsors...