Overview
Project Paphlagonia was a multi-period, large-scale programme of regional survey in northcentral Turkey, today the provinces of Çankiri and parts of Karabuek, previously a little explored region. In total, an area of almost 8,500km2 was surveyed between 1997 and 2001, using both extensive and intensive survey techniques. More than 330 sites of archaeological and historical significance were located and recorded. The sites range in date from early prehistoric to Ottoman, and include Palaeolithic camp-sites, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries, fortified defensive sites of the Hittite and other periods, Phrygian villages and burial tumuli, and a wealth of small towns, villages, farmsteads and hill-top refuges of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and early Turkish periods. This volume, to be used in conjunction with the Project Paphlagonia website presents synthetic treatments of all these periods as well as studies of the geology, geomorphology and climatology of the region. Studies of long-term settlement trends and patterns complete this publication of an important and productive programme of archaeological and historical survey.
Full Product Details
Author: Roger Matthews ,
Thomas F. Matthews ,
Claudia Glatz
Publisher: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Imprint: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Volume: 44
Dimensions:
Width: 21.30cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 29.70cm
Weight: 1.089kg
ISBN: 9781898249238
ISBN 10: 1898249237
Pages: 293
Publication Date: 05 May 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Project Paphlagonia is a welcome addition to the growing body of research into the archaeology of Black Sea region and deserves a place in every library of Anatolian archaeology. This remarkable volume will also appeal to scholars interested in the archaeology of frontiers and imperial peripheries. -- N. Ilgi Gercek, University of Michigan Journal of the American Oriental Society 132.3 (2012)
Author Information
Roger Matthews is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project (CZAP). He is President of RASHID International, an organisation concerned to protect and promote the cultural heritage of Iraq. He has directed excavations and surveys in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, and has published many books and articles on the archaeology of the Middle East with a focus on the Neolithic and the Bronze Age
