2014 Sponsored Projects

The site of Miri Qalat and the Kech-Makran (Balochistan, Pakistan) during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC

Miri Qalat is the most important archaeological site of the Kech Valley in Kech-Makran located south-west of Pakistani Balochistan. Excavations carried out between 1990 and 1996 by the French Archaeological Mission in Makran led by Roland Besenval in cooperation with the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, established the first chrono-cultural sequence of the region between the mid-late 5^th millennium BCE and the 19^th century CE and...

Kerkenes

PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage.

The Iron Age capital on Kerkenes Dağ, probably the Pteria of Herodotus, is the largest pre-Hellenistic city on the Anatolian Plateau. Culturally Phrygian...

Kerkenes

Kvatskhelebi: An Early Bronze Age Village in the Shida Kartli Region, Georgia

The site of Kvatskhelebi is one of the best-preserved Early Bronze Age settlements in the Shida Kartli region, in central-north Georgia and is situated near the town of Urbnisi on the north bank of the Kura river...

Publication of Excavation VII at Sarazm, Tajikistan

The Finds from the Chalcolithic Settlements of Bir es-Safadi and Abu Matar (5th Millennium BC, Northern Negev, Israel)

Bir es-Safadi and Abou Matar are two key-sites of the Chalcolithic period (late 5th to early 4th Millennium BC). These two large settlements are today located on opposite sides of the Nahal (seasonal water course) Beer Sheva, now within the modern town of the same name. The were excavated by Jean Perrot between 1952 and 1960. He unearthed extensive evidence of subterranean structures linked by galleries as well as above-ground, stone built dwellings. In addition to evidence of copper production, the excavations yielded wealth of information on agro-pastoralist populations living...

Excavations of the Sanctuary of Tanit at Carthage, 1925

This publication project, directed by Dr. Brien Garnand, will publish all field diaries and images from the Kelsey excavations as part of the final report of the ASOR Punic Project excavations at the Carthaginian tophet (or tofet, literally "place of burning," a.k.a....

Kültepe I from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The Results of the Excavations Directed by O. A. Abibullav Between 1951 and 1964

Kültepe I is an archaeological site located on the left bank of the Nakhchivan River, some 15 km upstream the junction with the Aras River in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). Kültepe I is one of the few multi-period sites in the South Caucasus with a maximum of 22 m of accumulated occupational layers spreading from the Neolithic-Chalcolithic to the Early Iron Age. It is so far the earliest open-air settlement known in the territory of Nakhchivan and one of the four Neolithic-Chalcolithic settlements excavated in the Aras River Valley. The site is also renowned for...

A View from the Highlands: The History of Shengavit, Armenia in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage.

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The Cairo University-Brown University Expedition to the Abu Bakr Cemetery at Giza, Egypt

The aim of the grant, awarded to Dr. Edward Brovarski, is to prepare the publication of the Old Kingdom tombs excavated by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr in the 1950s and early 1960s in the cemetery named after him in the far Western Field at Giza, Egypt.

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Final Report on the 1991-94 Excavations at Tell esh-Shuna North, Jordan

Many of these issues are being addressed through the analysis of evidence from excavations at Tell esh-Shuna in the north Jordan Valley undertaken 1991-94. The site has revealed a stratigraphic sequence which allows us to chart changes in the subsistence economy, the organisation of space, the production and deployment of material culture, and local and interregional connections through the 4th millennium BC, i.e. the...

Bir Massouda Excavations : Carthage - Dermech

This grant will be used to publish the final reports from rescue excavations at the Phoenician-Punic site of Carthage that took place between 2000 and 2005 under the direction of the grant recipient, first with the University of Amsterdam, then Ghent University in collaboration with the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine (co-directors Fethi Chelbi...

Necropoleis at Palaepaphos from the End of the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Archaic Period

PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage.

This grant will be for the preparation of archaeological material for publication; it was excavated by the Cyprus Department of Antiquities in the area of Palaepaphos, an ancient kingdom in the south...

2014 Sponsored Projects

The site of Miri Qalat and the Kech-Makran (Balochistan, Pakistan) during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC

Kerkenes

Kerkenes

Kvatskhelebi: An Early Bronze Age Village in the Shida Kartli Region, Georgia

Publication of Excavation VII at Sarazm, Tajikistan

The Finds from the Chalcolithic Settlements of Bir es-Safadi and Abu Matar (5th Millennium BC, Northern Negev, Israel)

Excavations of the Sanctuary of Tanit at Carthage, 1925

Kültepe I from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The Results of the Excavations Directed by O. A. Abibullav Between 1951 and 1964

A View from the Highlands: The History of Shengavit, Armenia in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE

The Cairo University-Brown University Expedition to the Abu Bakr Cemetery at Giza, Egypt

Final Report on the 1991-94 Excavations at Tell esh-Shuna North, Jordan

Bir Massouda Excavations : Carthage - Dermech

Necropoleis at Palaepaphos from the End of the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Archaic Period

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