SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Yener, K. A., and T. Ingman, eds. 2020. Alalakh and Its Neighbours: Proceedings of the 15th Anniversary Symposium at the New Hatay Archaeology Museum, 10-12 June 2015. Ancient Near Eastern Supplement Series 55. Leuven: Peeters.

Yener, K. A., M. Akar, and M. T. Horowitz, eds. 2019. Tell Atchana, Alalakh Volume 2: The Late Bronze II City. 2006-2010 Excavations. Istanbul: Koç University Press.

Maner, Ç., M. Horowitz, and A. Gilbert, eds. 2017. Overturning Certainties. Festschrift Presented to K. Aslıhan Yener for Her 40 Years of Field Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 90. Leiden: Brill.

Lauinger, J. 2015. Following the Man of Yamhad: Settlement and Territory at Old Babylonian Alalah. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 75. Leiden: Brill.

Akar, M., and H. Maloigne. 2014. Unutulmuş krallık : antik Alalah’ta arkeoloji ve fotoğraf = The Forgotten Kingdom : Archaeology and Photography at Ancient Alalakh. Istanbul: Koç University Press.

Yener, K. A. 2013. Across the Border: Late Bronze-Iron Age Relations between Syria and Anatolia. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Research Center of Anatolian Studies, Koç University, Istanbul May 31-June 1, 2010. Ancient Near Eastern Supplement Series 42. Leuven: Peeters.

Yener, K. A., ed. 2010. Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh. Volume 1: 2003-2004 Excavation Seasons. Istanbul: Koç University Press.

Articles

Ingman, T., S. Eisenmann, E. Skourtanioti, M. Akar, J. Ilgner, G. A. Gnecchi Ruscone, P. le Roux, R. Shafiq, G. Neumann, M. Keller, C. Freund, S. Marzo, M. Lucas, J. Krause, P. Roberts, K. A. Yener, and P. W. Stockhammer. 2021. “Human Mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey During the 2nd Millennium BC: Integration of Isotopic and Genomic Evidence.” PLoS ONE 16(6): e0241883.

Powell, W., M. Johnson, C. Pulak, K. A. Yener, R. Mathur, H. A. Bankoff, L. Godfrey, M. Price, and E. Galili. 2021. “From Peaks to Ports: Insights into Tin Provenance, Production, and Distribution from Adapted Applications of Lead Isotopic Analysis of the Uluburun Tin Ingots.” Journal of Archaeological Science 134: 105455.

Yener, K. A. 2021. “Some Thoughts about Middle Bronze Age Alalakh and Ugarit: Reassessing an Alalakh Wall Painting with Archival Data,” in V. Matoian (ed.), Ougarit, 90 ans après, (Ras Shamra Ougarit RSO XXVIII). Paris: Peeters.

Akar, M. and D. Kara. 2020. “The Formation of Collective, Political and Cultural Memory in the Middle Bronze Age: Foundation and Termination Rituals at Toprakhisar Höyük,” Anatolian Studies 70: 77-103.

Skourtanioti, E., Y. S. Erdal, M. Frangipane, F. B. Restelli, K. A. Yener, F. Pinnock, P. Matthiae, R. Özbal, U.-D.Schoop, F. Guliyev, T. Akhundov, B. Lyonnet, E. L. Hammer, S. E. Nugent, M. Burri, G. U. Neumann, S. Penske, T. Ingman, M. Akar, R. Shafiq, G. Palumbi, S. Eisenmann, M. D’Andrea, A. B. Rohrlach, C. Warinner, C. Jeong, P. W. Stockhammer, W. Haak, and J. Krause. 2020. “Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus.” Cell 181: 1158-75.e28.

Avşar, U., M. Akar, and C. Pearson. 2019. “Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Amuq Valley of Hatay: Sediment Coring Project in the Environs of Tell Atchana,” in H. Sözbilir, Ç. Özkaymak, B.Uzel, Ö. Sümer, M. Softa, Ç. Tepe, and S. Eski (eds.), The Proceedings and Abstracts Book 72nd Geological Congress of Turkey with International Participation. Ankara: TMMOB JEOLOJİ MÜHENDİSLERİ ODASI YAYINLARI.

Montesanto, M. and M. Pucci. 2019. “The Iron Age at Alalakh.” Archaeology and History in the Lebanon 50-51: 93-135.

Pucci, Marina. 2019. “The Iron Age Sequence in the Amuq.” Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 5: 147-164.

Hacıosmanoğlu, S., M. Kibaroğlu, G. Sunal, E. Kozal, and P. Gutsuz. 2018. “Geochemical and Petrographic Analysis of Late Bronze Age Cypriot Ceramics (White Slip I and II and Monochrome) from Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Hatay) in the Amuq Valley.” Archaeometry 60 (3): 471-488.

Akar, M. 2017. “A Kingdom and Its Capital in the Borderlands: The Sir Leonard Woolley Excavations at Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh,” in A. Schachner, M. Alparslan and M. D. Alparslan (eds.), The Discovery of an Anatolian Empire: A Colloquium to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Decipherment of the Hittite Language. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.

Akar, M. 2017. “Late Middle Bronze Age International Connections: An Egyptian Style Kohl Pot from Alalakh,” in E. Kozal, M. Akar, Y. Heffron, Ç. Çilingiroğlu, T. E. Şerifoğlu, C. Çakırlar, S. Ünlüsoy, and E. Jean (eds.), Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology. Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Bulu, M. 2017. “A New Look at the Periphery of the Hittite Empire: Re-evaluating Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlements of the Amuq Valley in the Light of Ceramics,” in Metin Alparslan (ed.), Places and Spaces in Hittite Anatolia I: Hatti and the East. Proceedings of an International Workshop on Hittite Historical Geography in Istanbul, 25th-26th October 2013. Istanbul: Türk Eskiçağ Bilimleri Enstitüsü.

Gutsuz, P., M. Kibaroğlu, G. Sunal, and S. Hacıosmanoğlu. 2017. “Geochemical Characterization of Clay Deposits in the Amuq Valley (Southern Turkey) and the Implications for Archaeometric Study of Ancient Ceramics.” Applied Clay Science 141: 316-333.

Yener, K. A. 2017. “Cult and Ritual at Late Bronze II Alalakh: Hybridity and Power Under Hittite Administration,” in Alice Mouton (ed.), Hittitology Today: Studies on Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolia in Honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th Birthday. Istanbul: Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes Georges – Dumézil.

Bulu, M. 2016. “An Intact Palace Kitchen Context from Middle Bronze Age Alalakh: Organization and Function,” in R. A. Stucky, O. Kaelin and H.-P. Mathys (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 9-13 June 2014, Basel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Yener, K. A. 2015. “Material Evidence of Cult and Ritual at Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh: Deities of the Transitional Middle-Late Bronze Period,” in P. Ciafardoni and D. Giannessi (eds.), From the Treasures of Syria. Essays on Art and Archaeology in Honour of Stefania Mazzoni. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut Voor Het Nabije Oosten.

Yener, K. A. 2015. “A Monumental Middle Bronze Age Apsidal Building at Alalakh,” in N. Stampolidis, Ç. Maner, and K. Kopanias (eds.), NOSTOI. Indigenous Culture Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. Istanbul: Koç University Press.

Yener, K. A., B. Dinçol, and H. Peker. 2014. “Prince Tuthaliya and Princess Ašnuhepa.” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (N.A.B.U.) 88 (4): 136-138.

Koehl, R. B. 2013. “The Near Eastern Contribution to Aegean Wall Painting and Vice Versa,” in Cultures in Contact. From Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C., edited by J. Aruz, S. B. Graf, and Y. Rakic. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Yener, K. A. 2013. “A Plaster Encased Multiple Burial at Alalakh: Cist Tomb 3017,” in R. B. Koehl (ed.), Amilla The Quest for Excellence. Studies in Honor of Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press.

Yener, K. A. and M. Akar. 2013. “Alalakh-Tell Atchana,” in M. Doğan Alparslan and M. Alparslan (eds.), Hittites. An Anatolian Empire. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları.

Yener, K. A. 2011. “Hittite Metals at the Frontier: A Three Spiked Battle Ax from Alalakh,” in S. Ferrence and P. Betancourt (eds.), Metallury: Understanding How, Learning Why. Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly. Philadelphia: INSTAP Press.