Use and misuse of the ancient environment – Transdisciplinary approaches on clay resources and alluvial fan formation
Field work of the Physical Geography team of Freie Universität Berlin and Ege Üniversitesi İzmir in October 2022
Geography
Pergamon 2021: Erste Ergebnisse der diesjährigen Arbeiten
Seit einigen Wochen laufen die diesjährigen Geländearbeiten an der UNESCO-Welterbestätte Pergamon (Bergama). Die Forschungen haben bereits viele neue Erkenntnisse erbracht und wir sind optimistisch, in den nächsten Wochen über weitere Entdeckungen berichten zu können!
Pergamon 2021: First results of this year’s campaign
This year’s site work at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pergamon (Bergama) has been underway for several weeks now. The research has already yielded many new insights and we are optimistic to report about further discoveries in the next weeks!
Relating long-term landscape development and human activities: Geomorphological Characteristics of the Pergamon Micro-Region
New open access paper published by Xun Yang et al. about the relations between long-term landscape development and human activities in the Pergamon Micro-Region.
Approaching the environmental and social carrying capacity of the Pergamon Micro-Region
New paper published! In collaboration between colleagues from the TransPergMicro project and the Collaborative Research Centre 1266, we approached the social ecology of the ancient Pergamon Micro-Region to assess its environmental and social carrying capacity and to gain insights into the transformative potential of land use strategies under changing populations.
Workshop Announcement: „From Past to Future: Deep-Time Patterns of Sustainability and Resilience in Socio-Ecological Systems“
A workshop organised by the interdisciplinary research group Sustainability and Resilience in Past & Present Populations (SuRP+) on human-environment interactions and sustainability in the past, present and future societies will be held online on May 10th to 12th 2021.
Archaeological research in times of the Corona pandemic: the 2020 field campaign of the Pergamon Excavation
For many academics, images of scholars in front of bookshelves at home and group screenshots from video conferences are among the most common images of the corona pandemic. Thanks to […]
Korona salgınında arkeolojik araştırma: Pergamon Kazısının 2020 çalışma sezonu
Birçok bilim insanı için korona salgınında en akılda kalan resimler, akademisyenlerin evlerinde kitap raflarının önünde çekilmiş fotoğrafları ya da video konferanslar esnasında alınan ekran görüntüleri oldu. Alman Arkeoloji Enstitüsü, esnek […]
Between cotton, olives and the recent remains of human society – Geoarchaeological fieldwork in Pergamon in 2020
Fabian Becker, Mehmet Doğan and Xun Yang During the field campaign in 2019 an archaeological survey and a first geographical field inspection – including the description and sampling of some […]
Reconstructing the Ancient Route Network in Pergamon’s Surroundings
The surrounding landscape of ancient Pergamon is characterized by several mountain ranges, the Bakırçay Valley and River and the Aegean coastline. The accessibility of this region was vital for the […]
The Environment of the Micro-Region
During a short field campaign, the geographers of the project explored the environmental characteristics of several archaeological sites that were intensively surveyed this year. Equipped with camera, handheld GPS, and […]
Connecting archaeological survey projects
Workshop from 22-23 March 2019 at the DAI Istanbul A group of international scholars from various survey projects met at the Istanbul Department of the DAI from 22 to 23 […]
