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BC, Izmir, Turkey) Canan Çakırlar 35 Revisiting prehistoric sites in the Göksu valley: a GIS and social network approach Peter Bikoulis 61 Bronze Age Trojan artefacts in Poland: some remarks Dariusz Maliszewski 69 The house of Tarkondimotos: a late Hellenistic dynasty between Rome and the East Nicholas L. Wright 89 Primary evidence for Late Roman D Ware production in southern Asia Minor: a challenge to ‘Cypriot Red Slip Ware’ Mark Jackson, Michael Zelle, Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse 115 A monument of early Byzantine Sardis: architectural analysis and graphic reconstruction of Building D Nikolaos D. Karydis 141 Liberalism in the Turkish context and its historiography: past and present Hilmi Ozan Özavcı 153 Excavating a memory: the British in Georgia Paul Everill VOLUME 62 . 2012 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.229, on 02 Oct 2021 at 06:44:12, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154612000099 Anatolian Studies 62 (2012): iii–iv James Mellaart He was appointed Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara in 1959. Two years later, on the Jimmy Mellaart, as he was always known, was born in retirement of Seton Lloyd from the directorship, he London on 14 November 1925 and died there on 29 July moved to Istanbul, where he was for two years a 2012. He will be remembered for his ground-breaking lecturer in the university.
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