Kerkenes

PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage.

Geoffrey Summers has taken part in excavations and surveys in Ethiopia, Kenya, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Mauritius. He received his PhD from Manchester University (England) in 1982, was variously Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, Lecturer at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and Fellow of the RCAC of Koç University, Istanbul. Together with his architect wife Françoise, he directed the Kerkenes Project in central Turkey from 1993 to 2012  for which he was awarded a Rolex Award for Enterprise. In 2009 he was awarded an MBE for “Services to British Archaeology in Turkey”.

Geoffrey was awarded a grant from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program leading to the publication of a monograph on the Palatial Complex at Kerkenes, an Iron Age mountaintop city in Turkey, and the web publication of the Kerkenes Finds database that is on the project website. In addition to his work in Turkey where he lived for 30 years, he has been involved, with his Mauritian wife, in the colonial archaeology of Mauritius where he spends an active retirement.