Prehistoric copper mining in Derekutugun, Anatolia

该项目是一个跨学科的研究项目，调查旧大陆的史前原生铜矿开采，这是迄今为止同类项目中唯一的例子。最重要的是关于金属资源的早期利用的基本问题，特别是公元前3千年早期安纳托利亚铜开采和铜贸易的组织和结构。这些特殊的点是重要的关键问题，不仅从文化历史和生存考古的角度来看，而且从技术和矿床地质学的角度来看。这个项目方法是广泛的，结合了考古学、地质学和考古学的学科。在试点阶段进行了初步挖掘工作。2009年至2012年期间的挖掘结果为二期工程提供了基础。在这个项目阶段，上述目标将导致一份系统的中期报告。因此，安纳托利亚这一重要的铜源将在其文化历史和技术影响方面得到充分评价。计划中的调查和挖掘工作将在科鲁姆博物馆的行政指导下进行。

The project is an interdisciplinary research project investigating the prehistoric native copper mining in the Old World, which to this date is the only example of its kind. At the forefront, there are the basic questions about the early utilization of metal resources, particularly the organization and structures of copper exploitation and copper trade in Anatolia in the early 3rd millennium BC. These particular points are key issues that are important not only from the cultural historic and subsistence archaeological points of view, but also from the view point of technology and ore deposit geology.This project approach is broad and combines the disciplines of archaeology, geology, and archaeometry. In a pilot phase the preliminary excavations have been undertaken. The results of the excavations carried out between 2009-2012 provide a basis for the second project phase. During this project phase the aims outlined above will lead to a systematical interim report. Thus, this important copper source of Anatolia will be adequately evaluated in terms of its cultural history and its technological implications.The planned surveys and excavations will be executed under the administrative direction of the Museum of Corum.