Fokke Gerritsen studied Near Eastern and Northwest European Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Chicago and received his PhD degree from VU University Amsterdam in 2001.
Professional activities
- Director of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), in Istanbul, since 2006;
- Project director of the Barcın Höyük Excavations in northwestern Anatolia, since 2007;
- Associate Editor of the annual Anatolica, since 2006.
Research interests
Near Eastern and Anatolian archaeology; Early farming communities and neolithization; Northwest European later prehistory; landscape and settlement archaeology.
Ongoing Research Projects
Barcın Höyük Excavations (from 2007)
This research project focuses on the site of Barcın Höyük in Northwestern Anatolia, as part of the long-term research project “Early Farming Communities in the Marmara Region”, a joint project of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and the Netherlands Institute for the Near East.
An international team of archaeologists and specialists, from the Netherlands, Turkey and other countries, investigate early farming communities from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic, as well as a rural cemetery of the Byzantine era. The project receives its main funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). More information can be found on the project website.
Teaching at VU University Amsterdam
Fokke Gerritsen is a lecturer at VU University Amsterdam, teaching courses on Archaeology of the Near East and European Prehistory.
