Never Ending Story. Responsibility, Strategy and Sustainability in Managing an Archaeological Excavation and Its Public Presentation from Its Inception to Beyond Its Termination

The archaeological and environmental park of Tilmen Höyük has been functioning since 2007 almost without any major problem and with a very low maintenance cost. This book presents the results of a conservation and presentation project developed between the years 2003 and 2008. We advocate for an integral open access of the data elaborated and a global public presentation at an archaeological site for which a scientific project has been carried out in close contact also with the local and regional communities: the theoretical issues and actions presented here are useful for the scientific community in designing field projects, such as the system prototypes for the public visit of the archaeological areas, with low production costs and modular features. These are potentially transferable to other similar archaeological sites in the Mediterranean area, dating both from the Classical and pre-Classical periods.