Mehmet Ozdogan

A Life as an Archaeology Novel

There were several occasions when I had a
chance to have met Professor Özdoğan in
1990s - Budja's seminar in Ljubljana, Aşağı
Pinar excavations, Nesseber's Symposium,
etc. We always talked about archaeology.
Mehmet Özdoğan had demonstrated such a
good and deep knowledge on the Bulgarian
Prehistory that for sure it was enough for a
profound book. But he prefers to write about
his excavations - from eastern Turkey to
European Turkey, and always like he had
been communicating directly with the past,
understanding the prehistoric people who in
turn opened in some cases only for him
their secrets.
Today we cannot write about Prehistoric
Turkey without references to Mehmet's
contributions. Very often references to M
Özdoğan occupy more than open page in
our bibliographies (link e.g. Nikolova's) and
they are always in fact ...
sellected, and always rereadable with great
pleasure, because we feel not the ink but
the heart of the archaeologist Mehmet
Özdoğan embodied in the text who has
dedicated his life to Archaeology. In turn,
today Mehmet is for all his friends and
beyond them one of the greatest
archaeologists on the bridge of 20th and
21st centuries.
All fans of Mehmet and first readers can just
enjoy right now his
Hypothetical Approaches and Realities:
Research Strategies in Defining Space and
Context (.pdf)