French, D. H.

A Study of Roman Roads in Anatolia: Principles and Methods

by French, D. H.

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It is my intention, here, to present the background to my work in a field which I have adopted, perhaps rashly and unwisely, in the spirit of an interested amateur. The work has been centred on the road systems of Roman Asia Minor and is concerned with the surviving evidence for…

R.E.C.A.M. Notes and Studies No. 4 Latin Inscriptions from Ladik and Sinop

by French, D. H.

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This short note is here presented as an illustration not only of the material which will be published in the final volumes but also of the aims and methods of the R.E.C.A.M. work.Four inscriptions form the core of this article. Two are from the area of Ladik (now renamed Halicı)…

Excavations at Can Hasan, 1965, Fifth Preliminary Report

by French, D. H.

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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 conservat…

An Experiment in Water-Sieving

by French, D. H.

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A great deal is being written about the methods of analysing data after it has been collected on an archaeological site; very little, however, has been said about the methods by which the data is retrieved. It may be that the two are not really separate.Since the appearance of A…

Notes on Site Distribution in the Çumra Area

by French, D. H.

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Mr. Cohen has proposed, above, the hypothesis that the formation, in the earliest Holocene, of the alluvial soils of the Konya basin, was an influential factor in the appearance of settlement-sites which may have played some role in the history of early domestication of plants a…

Prehistoric Sites in Northwest Anatolia: II. The Balıkesir and Akhisar/Manisa Areas

by French, D. H.

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In this article I have presented the second synthesis of information and material gathered from surface survey in Western Anatolia. This article, in fact, completes the publication of the work that I undertook in 1959–60 when I was joint Scholar of the British Institute of Archa…

Excavations at Can Hasan, 1967, Seventh Preliminary Report

by French, D. H.

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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…

Excavations at Can Hasan, 1966: Sixth Preliminary Report

by French, D. H.

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The sixth season of excavations at Can Hasan took place between 28th August and 30th September. Additional work on storing and arranging the non-registered materials from the excavations continued until 12 th October. All materials other than the registered objects from the 1961…

Prehistoric Sites in Northwest Anatolia I. The İznİk Area

by French, D. H.

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The Sea of Marmara straddles one of the greatest of the natural routes between Europe and Asia. Along this route, it might be expected, passed the movements of objects and materials, the trade, the transference of ideas, the migrations of peoples between Anatolia and the Aegean …

Excavations at Can Hasan: First Preliminary Report, 1961

by French, D. H.

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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 Ta…

Excavations at Can Hasan: Fourth Preliminary Report, 1964

by French, D. H.

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The work this year at Can Hasan took place, as usual, in the autumn. Excavation began on 6th September and finished on 10th October. A further week was spent on the detailed work of planning, photography and pottery study. We employed this year, as in previous years, Veli Karaas…

Prehistoric Sites in the Göksu Valley

by French, D. H.

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The valley of the river Göksu (the ancient Calycadnus) is not unique as a road through the Taurus mountains. At least one other route was used in antiquity; this was by the Cilician Gates (now the Gülek boğazı). The valley of the Göksu, however, provides the easiest means of acc…

Excavations at Can Hasan: Third Preliminary Report, 1963

by French, D. H.

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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 a…

Excavations at Can Hasan, Second Preliminary Report, 1962

by French, D. H.

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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 …

Pre-Urartian and Urartian Pottery from the Muş Region

by French, D. H., Summers, G. D.

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The pottery discussed here was collected by C. A. Burney during his survey in 1956 and in 1965. We would like to express our thanks to Charles Burney for valuable discussion and for encouraging publication of the material. We have also profited from discussion with Drs. Ayşe Gür…

Sakçagözü Material in the Gaziantep Museum

by French, D. H., Summers, G. D.

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After the completion of the new Museum in Gaziantep, the then Director, Bay Hasan Candemir, asked the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara to undertake the task of refurbishing and rearranging the material (in the Gaziantep Museum) from the 1949 excavations. It was not unt…

The Adıyaman Survey: an interim report

by French, D. H., Blaylock, S. R., Summers, G. D.

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Some preliminary conclusions and individual discoveries from the first four seasons of a survey in the province of Adıyaman are presented here. Initial inspiration for this project grew out of the Institute's excavations at Tille Höyük and the realization that Tille and other ex…

Four Latin Inscriptions From Satala

by French, D. H., Summerly, J. R.

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Recent work, published in Anatolian Studies and other journals, has drawn attention to the site of Satala, the modern Sadak (in the province of Gümüşhane, district of Kelkit, map Erzincan 116-p). The importance of Satala is self-evident but the impending loss of Samosata, the ba…

Excavations at Tille 1979–1982 an Interim Report

by French, D. H., Moore, J., Russell, H. F.

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The village of Tille, now named Geldibuldu, is situated on the right bank of the Euphrates, at the western end of the modern bridge which takes the Adıyaman—Urfa/Diyarbakır road across the river. Tille village lies on the north side of the modern road at c. 30 km. east of Kahta …

Late Chalcolithic Pottery in North-West Turkey and the Aegean

by French, D. H.

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The main purpose of this article is to publish material collected from surveys in Western Anatolia, Thrace and Thessaly which were made with the intention of discovering possible links between these three areas in the period which in South-West Anatolia is called Late Chalcolith…