Excavations at Can Hasan, 1965, Fifth Preliminary Report

1966 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. French
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Winter Maintenance ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Maintenance Work ◽  
The Village

The excavations at Can Hasan were continued this year from 1st September to 6th October. Work, however, went on until October 16th on section drawing, photography, packing and storing. Further repairs were made to the fence enclosing the site and measures taken for the conservation of the site during the winter. Maintenance work was carried out on the dig house. As in the previous year, the excavation bekçi continues to live in the house during the winter months.Those assisting in this year's excavations were Messrs. S. Payne and J. N. Postgate, field assistants and the Misses E. A. Dowman, A. C. Hird, S. M. Page and R. J. Worth, house assistants. Mr. Payne again had charge of the obsidian material; Miss Dowman was in charge of registration and conservation and Miss Worth of pottery. Bay Hayrettin Solmaz represented the Turkish Government. For most of the season we employed about eight men from the village.

Excavations at Can Hasan, Second Preliminary Report, 1962

1963 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. French
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
The Village ◽  
Final Cleaning

A second season of work at Can Hasan took place between 10th September and 10th October with nine days at the end to complete the final cleaning of the site and the registering of the finds. As last year, we employed three trained men from Beycesultan and ten unskilled men from the village.In addition to myself and my wife, the staff included Mr. N. H. S. Kindersley, field assistant; Messrs. R. Fonseca and I. Walls, architects; Mr. R. E. Oakley, field assistant; and Misses A. C. Cruikshank, C. MacLucas and A. Searight, pottery assistants. Bay Hayrettin Solmaz of the Konya Museum represented the Turkish Government.

Excavations at Can Hasan, 1967, Seventh Preliminary Report

1968 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. French
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
New Method ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Metal Framework ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Site Supervisors ◽  
Small Hand

The seventh season of excavation at Can Hasan began on 9th September and stopped on 28th October; a further week was spent working on the finds and on the site. Site supervisors were Bay Altan Atılgan, and Messrs. S. W. Helms, R. Howell, and J. N. Postgate. In the House the work was undertaken by Bayan Behin Aksoy, Bayan Ülge Göker, Miss Carolyn Prater, Mrs. Cressida Ridley and Miss Monika van der Zwann. Bay Bedri Yalman represented the Turkish Government for a short period until called away to military service; his place was taken by Bay Cengiz Karadağ.A new method of sieving was introduced this year at the suggestion of Mr. Sebastian Payne. Instead of small hand sieves, “shakers”, built under Mr. Payne's supervision, were used. Basically this type of “shaker” is three removable trays with mesh of differing size (10 mm., 5 mm., 1 mm.) set on a sprung metal framework. It was also found more practicable with soils containing a lot of grain to “wash out” the grain from the soil remaining in the last tray after the soil had received preliminary hand-searching.

Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi. First season 2018. Preliminary Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Wyżgoł ◽  
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Nile ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
The Village ◽  
Different Parts

Tanqasi village lies on the left side of the river Nile, about 17 km downstream from Merowe city. A large tumuli field is located some kilometers southeast of the village toward the edge of the Bayuda Desert. It contains no less than 250 tumuli of various size and form of superstructure, varying from very large to very small, but only four of these have been excavated so far (three in 1953 and one in 2006). A new study program, starting in 2018 within the frame of the Early Makuria Research Project, has now explored five more tombs located in different parts of the cemetery, providing a broad chronological sequence from late to terminal Meroitic.

Excavations at Alahan Monastery: Third Preliminary Report

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
Michael Gough
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Site Supervisors ◽  
Maximum Effort ◽  
Small Finds

Last year, during the months of July and August, the Institute completed a third season of excavation at Alahan Monastery in Isauria and, although the season was fairly short—six weeks in all—more workmen were taken on to ensure a maximum effort. Many of these, with six or seven years experience of early Christian excavations at Daǧ Pazarı and Alahan, quickly instructed the newcomers. Of the British staff, Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Martineau helped Mrs. Gough with the administration as well as on the site. Miss Hall, Mr. Harper and Mr. Hayes acted as site supervisors, while Mrs. Gerard Bakker was again responsible for pottery and small finds. The expedition's architect and draughtsman was Mr. Adrian Cave, of the Architectural Institute. Finally, by a happy coincidence, the representative of the Turkish Government was Bay Süleyman Gönçer, who found himself after his retirement from the Directorship of the Afyon Museum with a British expedition again, after so many years of collaboration between the wars with Dr. Winifred Lamb at Kusura and with Sir William Calder during his Phrygian explorations.

Excavations at Can Hasan: Third Preliminary Report, 1963

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. French
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
The Third ◽  
Additional Work ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Continue Work

The third season of work at Can Hasan took place between 11th and 25th September, with additional work on the site between 26th and 28th September. This year we employed, as usual, Veli Karaaslan as foreman, Rifat Çelimli and Mustafa Duman as ustas, seven other men from Menteş and two local men from Canasun village. At the end of the season the site was completely filled in with earth from our dumps, except for areas where we hope to continue work in future seasons. Finally we fenced in, with posts and wire, an enclosure approximately 110 by 90 m. around the excavated area.This season's staff included Messrs. N. H. S. Kindersley and D. J. Blackman, field assistants; Mrs. D. J. Blackman, Messrs. J. E. Reade and M. C. C. Davie, pottery assistants. Bay Behçet Erdal of the İstanbul Archaeological Museum represented the Turkish Government.

scholarly journals Preliminary report on the excavation of a new Late Bronze Age cemetery from Jobbágyi (North Hungary)

2015 ◽  
pp. 413-421
Author(s):  
Kristóf Fülöp ◽  
Gábor Váczi
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Main Road ◽  
Archaeological Sciences ◽  
The Village

During the summer of 2014 an archaeological team of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University participated in the excavations preceding the expansion of main road No. 21 in Nógrád County.1 This project provided an opportunity to unearth a section of a large, biritual Late Bronze Age cemetery in the vicinity of the village of Jobbágyi.

Excavations at Hacılar, second Preliminary Report, 1958

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Large School ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Field Supervision

The second season at Hacılar lasted from the middle of August till the middle of September. The writer was in charge, assisted for part of the time by Mrs. Mellaart, and by the Director in an advisory capacity. Miss Elizabeth Beazley, Mr. David Stronach and Mr. David French dealt most efficiently with the architecture, photography and field supervision and pottery respectively. The Turkish Government was again represented by Bay Osman Aksoy. The expedition is much indebted to the Vali of Burdur, Bay Turhan Kapanlı, especially for his generous loan of a bulldozer to assist in re-levelling the site after excavation; also to the Gendarme Commander of Burdur and the Maarif Müdürü, for facilitating our relations with the peasant owners of the site, and for permission to use the large school at Hacılar as expedition headquarters.

Excavations at Hacılar, First Preliminary Report

1958 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 127-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Entire Surface ◽  
Main Road ◽  
South West ◽  
Antique Dealer ◽  
The Village

The village of Hacilar is situated in the Vilayet of Burdur in South-west Anatolia, about 25 km. west of Burdur itself on the main road to Yeşilova and Denizli. The chalcolithic site lies about 1·5 km. west of the village and just beyond the orchards, which are irrigated by a plentiful spring at the foot of a great limestone crag which overlooks the village. It is this spring which since neolithic times has been the main reason for more or less continuous occupation in this region. Apart from the neolithic and early chalcolithic site at Hacılar there is a large Early Bronze Age mound on the northern outskirts and a classical site to the south-west of the village.The prehistoric site is an inconspicuous mound, about 150 metres in diameter, rising to a height of not more than 1·50 m. above the level of the surrounding fields (Fig. 1 and Pl. XXIXa). The entire surface of the mound is under cultivation and a series of depressions show the holes made by a local antique-dealer in search of painted pots and small objects. About 1 km. west of the site runs the Koca Çay, the ancient Lysis, and on the eastern scarp of this river valley lies the cemetery of the Early Bronze Age settlement. Not a single burial has yet been found in the chalcolithic or neolithic levels of our site and it is therefore not unreasonable to suggest that its cemetery also may eventually be located there.

Excavations at Can Hasan: First Preliminary Report, 1961

1962 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. French
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
North East ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

The village of Can Hasan is situated in the Kaza of Karaman, in the Vilayet of Konya, about 13 km. north-east of the town of Karaman. Can Hasan is a small village of about three hundred people, lying in a wide and fertile plain, not too far from the first low foothills of the Taurus. The approximate height of the village above sea level is 1,000 m.Geographically the importance of Karaman and its surrounding villages lies in its unique position at the end of the route (Fig. 1) through the Taurus which begins at Silifke and follows the Gök Su (Calycadnus) as far as Mut, from where there is little difficulty in crossing the watershed between the river valley and the Karaman plain. This is one of the great routes through the Taurus and one of the easiest: there are others. All of them are used even to-day, when nomads with pack animals travel up to 300 km. through the Taurus from summer to winter pastures.

Beycesultan, 1959: Sixth Preliminary Report

1960 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seton Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Considerable Success ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

A final season of excavating at Beycesultan was arranged in the autumn of 1959 and lasted from 15th September to 28th October. The work was once more in charge of the Director, who was accompanied by Mrs. Seton Lloyd and a staff consisting of Mr. Martin Harrison (Institute Scholar for 1958–59) and Mrs. Harrison, Mr. Harry Smith of Christ's College, Cambridge, Miss Carol Cruikshank, Mr. Michael Brett as architect and Bay Osman Aksoy as Turkish Government representative. The Assistant Director and Miss Clare Goff also took part in the excavations during the second half of the season.It had been decided on this occasion to concentrate the entire resources of the expedition on the continued clearance of the Middle Bronze Age palace on the eastern summit of the mound, partly excavated in the seasons of 1954 and 1955, in the hope of recovering as much of the plan as possible before the excavations finally closed down. This was accomplished with considerable success. Two large new areas of the building were cleared and a point reached where any further extension would have met with serious practical difficulties.

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