The multi-layered mound of Zeytinli Bahçe is located on a low river terrace along the left bank of the Euphrates, immediately south of the modern city of Birecik, in the province of Şanlıurfa, in Southeastern Turkey (coordinates: 36°59'45"N; 37°58'45"E). The site is relatively small in size (approx. 2.6ha), but has a thick stratified deposit of over 30m in height. Seven seasons of excavations and research, conducted by the Missione Archeologica Italiana nell’Anatolia Orientale (MAIAO) of Sapienza University of Rome in cooperation with the Şanlıurfa Archaeological Museum under the...

The city of Messene in the southwest Peloponnese was founded in 369 BC when the Thebans liberated the region from Spartan control. The city thrived in Hellenistic and Roman times and excavations have revealed the expansive and impressive remains of the monumental city centre. Archaeological research at the site began in the early twentieth century, intensified in the 1960s with Anastasios Orlandos’ excavation of the Asklepieion and have been carried out on a large scale since the 1980s under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society and the leadership of Petros Themelis. A large...

Chagar Bazar is a cluster of mounds with human occupations from the Bronze Age but with a rich Neolithic sequence from the Halaf period. The settlement is a long-duration site located in Syria on the wadi Dara, a tributary of the Khabour River, c. 35 km from Hassake. It is surrounded to the north by the Taurus, to the southwest by the Djebel Abd al-Aziz, and to the southeast by the...

Theopetra Cave is located in the northwestern corner of the plain of Thessaly in Central Greece (39.67991, 21.68122). Facing north from a prominent limestone hill of the same name, it lies approximately 5.5km southeast of the Municipality of Meteora and the well-known monasteries in the area. The Thessalian Plain was a major focus for Neolithic farming communities, with numerous significant settlements all the way to the coast in the east. It was also occupied during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic, and...

Since the first excavations between 1904 and 1906, Koumasa (34° 58' North, 25° 0' East, in the south-central part of the island of Crete) occupies a prominent position in Minoan archaeology. Located strategically on the foothills of Eastern Asterousia and overlooking a large part of the Mesara plain, this site was predestined to play an important role as a regional center during the dynamic social processes that transformed Early...

Excavations by Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow in 2003, 2009; Geomagnetic surveys by Petar Zidarov in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

The grant will be used for the preparation of the final publication of the archeological and geomagnetic reports of three Neolithic sites: Brezhani (41°51'N, 23°11'E), Drenkovo I ...

The grant will support the publication program of the final report on the excavations of the citadel at Tilmen Höyük, a capital city of the Middle Bronze Age Northern Levant (Gaziantep province, South-Eastern Turkey).

The excavations of the Turco-Italian team lead by N. Marchetti between 2003 and 2008 brought to light...

The project focuses on the final publication of the excavations at the Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, located on the northern edge of the Beersheba–Arad Valley in southern Israel (162^o North, 075^o East). During the 1960s, a team directed by Y. Aharoni exposed a sequence of 13 strata: the lowest (Stratum XIII) belonged to a mid-3^rd millennium BCE city, superimposed by the remains of a village...

Claudia Näser, the lead researcher of this publication project, together with Jens Weschenfelder, the author of the envisaged publication, joined the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project upon invitation by the National...

Bet Khallaf is a Third Egyptian Dynasty (2686-2613 BC ca.) necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at 26° 19’ North, 31° 47’ East in the desert zone bordering on the crop cultivations, 20 km north of Abydos necropolis (Umm el-Qa’ab), site of the first royal burial place of the first Egyptian kings (Ist Dynasty 3000-2890 BC ca.). The site includes a five hectares area, where five mudbrick mastabas (rectangular mudbrick tombs with underground apartments) were discovered in May 1901 by John Garstang, as a mission for the Egyptian Research Account, which received no further attention...

This publication project, directed by Dr. Rémy Crassard, addresses the understudied topic of animal trapping in human prehistory and how large-scale trapping strategies impacted...