A large amount of animal remains have been studied since the very beginning of the excavations at Sagalassos. The analyses yielded information on several aspects of daily life in the city, from the Iron Age (at Tepe Düzen) up to the Middle Byzantine period. The data collected during the 2009 campaign corroborated earlier results and [...]
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
During the 2009 excavation season, the archaeobotanical studies at the site continued with extensive sampling of all of the excavated locations in order to get more representative information on the plant economy of the city of Sagalassos and its Iron Age predecessor Tepe Düzen. A total of 75 flotation and 23 wood charcoal samples were [...]
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Thursday, September 17, 2009A professor once said “archaeology is 10 percent digging and 90 percent figuring out what to do with your stuff”. There could not have been more truth in his words, implying that getting it out of the ground is one thing, but studying and storing it yet another.
Indeed, as archaeologists we should provide the best [...]
Stone Studies
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Once again our main goal was to determine the provenance of the stone types used for the wall and floor veneer of Sagalassos. Whereas the wall veneer was the primary subject of research during the previous two seasons, this year special attention was given to the floor revetment. During the campaign of 2008 the opus [...]
Read full post »Tepe Düzen: Report 3
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The excavations at Tepe Düzen were executed by two teams of 2 archaeologists and 3 workmen each. The TD1 team was lead by Merve Özkılıç (Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul) and Roel Van Beeumen (K.U.Leuven) and the TD2 team was lead by Kim Vyncke and Laura Verheyden (both K.U.Leuven). In total 3 sondages and 1 excavation [...]
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