Yaşar Ersoy taught in Ege
University (Izmir) before joining the faculty at Bilkent in 1997. He received
his Ph.D from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn
Mawr College in 1993. His specialties are the Aegean Bronze Age and Greek art
and archaeology. He is the assistant director of the Klazomenai (Urla)
excavations, where he works in the residential quarters of the Archaic and
Classical periods. He is currently working on the stratigraphy and artifactual
assemblages of industrial districts of Archaic Klazomenai. He was the recipient
of a post-graduate fellowship granted by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation in
2003. In 2004, having been awarded a prestigious fellowship of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, he will pursue his research in Berlin.
Publications
2004. Klazomenai, Teos and Abdera: Mother City and
Colonies. Proceedings of the Symposium, Abdera 20-21 2001 eds. Y.
E. Ersoy, A. Moustaka, E. Skarlatidou Thessaloniki.
2003.
"Pottery Production and Mechanism of Workshops in Archaic Clazomenae", in B.
Schmaltz, M. Söldner eds.,Griechische Keramik im Kulturellen Kontext. Münster: 254-257.
2000.
"East Greek Pottery Groups of the 7th and 6th Centuries BC from Klazomenai", in
F. Krinzinger ed.,Die Agäis und das Westliches Mittelmeer Vienna: 399-406.
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