Turizm Öğrencilerinin Arkeolojik Bir Ören Yerinde Eğitilmesi
Project no. 181 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
Within the scope of this Project, Ege University, Çeşme Tourism and Hotel Business College and Tour Guiding students were included in the Çatalhöyük Excavation Project which is the first Neolithic site in our country to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The students who took part in this project, conducted by a world renowned international team, gained experience both by meeting scientists from different countries and seeing for themselves the artefacts found in the course of the excavation, thereby turning the theoretical information given by us in class into practical knowledge. They also experienced living together in a camp environment, developing their social sides and foreign language skills. At the same time the students, who were in every sense part of the team, found the opportunity to gain experience in the ‘Tour guiding’ profession, before starting their professional lives, by explaining the historical site in great detail to both local and foreign tourists. The student members of the archaeological project were educated in, carried out research on, and gained experience in; prehistoric archaeology, mound sites, Neolithic architecture, past people, animal and plant remains, burial traditions, stone tools, pottery and how a settlement dated to the Neolithic period can be evaluated and brought to the status of a ‘touristic product’.