K. Aslihan Yener

K. Aslıhan Yener, often anglicised as K. Aslihan Yener (21 July 1946),

Career Aslıhan Yener became a professor of Anatolian Archaeology in the Archaeology and History of Art Dept. at Koç University and an associate professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute.

Aslıhan Yener joined the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1993, where she is currently Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology. She is currently the director of the Asi River Valley Regional Project and conducts research on the site of Alalah, which was the capital of the Mukish Kingdom during the Hittite period (Late Bronze Age, 2000-1200 BC).

She is currently an emeritus associate professor at the University of Chicago.

Book Yener is the author of the book The domestication of metals: the rise of complex metal industries in Anatolia (Brill, 2000).