Project goes high-tech to unearth ancient history

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5-8-2008 12:57 PM

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There is a small hill in a remote part of Turkey that looms large in the mind of <A href="http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=jhaldon" >John Haldon</A>, a professor of history at Princeton. It likely is the ruin of an ancient fortress, but for Haldon the site is an inspiration to find new ways to unearth the history of a particular landscape.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/01/92M09/index.xml?section=topstories,featured">
A specialist in Byzantine history, Haldon is the director of an archaeological and historical survey project based around the modern village of Beyözü in the north-central Anatolian region of Turkey. The site, originally known as Euchaita, then Avkat in Ottoman times, is a prime example of a provincial setting in Asia Minor. By deploying innovative technologies and multidisciplinary insights, Haldon hopes his study will reveal the big picture of an area that has thus far been unexamined.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/01/92M09/index.xml?section=topstories,featured"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.princeton.edu/img/98693CB8-F3F5-4BEF-BFD1-8952282C7D33" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/01/92M09/index.xml?section=topstories,featured">John Haldon (seated), a professor of history, consults a map of the Avkat Project in Turkey with Zachary Chitwood</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/370D3792-B7EE-47A9-8344-A325D7CB282A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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5-8-2008 5:12 PM

BobW123

The future of archaeology is 50% digging, and 50% new technologies. Most stories on new discoveries, it seems, are focused on new learnings about old findings. Machu Picchu, for example, is still the subject of new discovery almost 100 years after it was 'uncovered': http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/ancient//machu-picchu.html

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