Kaman

My next stop was Kaman-Kalehöyük, a Japanese-run excavation site in Central Turkey, a few hours south of Ankara. I went there for a spot-testing workshop, where we learned the proper procedures for performing microchemical tests to identify and characterize materials. Loads of sciencey fun. 

The strange thing about this place is that the site has fully equipped conservation facilities and a chemical lab, in middle-of-nowhere Turkey. You wouldn't even know you had landed in a foreign country, except maybe for the Turkish cling-wrap. Coming from Gordion, where the lab consists of a sink and tables, this was especially surreal.  

This is me spot-testing. 

Try as I might, I am still terrified of concentrated acids.