Jak Yakar

Jak Yakar ( Hebrew ז'אק יקר; German  Jacques Jakar ; also yak yakar; * 1949 in Istanbul ) is an Israeli archaeologist from the Near East .

Jak Yakar studied from 1960 to 1965 at the University of Istanbul , where he obtained a bachelor's degree. At Brandeis University , he completed postgraduate studies with a master's degree in 1966. There he also completed his doctorate, which he completed in 1968. In 1963 Yakar took part in an excavation in Çatalhöyük . In 1973 he dug in Beer Sheva . He also worked in Ikiztepe , Thrace , the Greek part of Macedonia and Turkey , especially in the north and east of the country.

Focus of Yakars work are Ethnoarchaeology , ethnography and historical geography of earlier cultures in the area of present-day Turkey. He teaches at Tel Aviv University as Professor of Anatolian Archeology and Middle Eastern Cultures.

Fonts

• The Later Prehistory of Anatolia: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age , Oxford 1985 (BAR International Series 268 [1-2])
• Prehistoric Anatolia: The Neolithic Transformation and the Early Chalcolithic Period , Tel Aviv 1994 (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University No. 9)
• Prehistoric Anatolia-Supplement No.1 , Tel Aviv 1994 (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University No. 9A)
• Ethnoarcheology of Anatolia. Rural Socio-Economy in the Bronze and Iron Ages , Tel Aviv 2000 (Monograph Series of the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University No. 17)
• Reflections of Ancient Anatolian Society in Archeology: From Neolithic Village Communities to EBA Towns and Polities , Istanbul 2011

Web links

• CV and list of publications