Preliminary Report

D. T. PoTTs,a K. RaDneR,b a. squiTieRi,b a. ameen,c J. RohDe,b P. YawaR,c J.-J. heRR,d h. salih,c F. PeTcheY,e a. hogg,e B. gRaTuze,f K. R. Raheemc anD h. B. PoTTsa a Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (= NYU); b Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (= LMU), Munich, Germany; c Directorate of Antiquities, Sulaimaniyah Governate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; d Independent Scholar; e The University of Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Hamilton, New Zealand; f Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, Centre Ernest-Babelon, UMR 5060 CNRS/Université d’Orléans, France

This article offers a preliminary overview of the results of the excavations of four test trenches at Magoula Plataniotiki, near the Hellenistic city of Halos, by the universities of Groningen and Amsterdam and the 13th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. The 2013-2014 report is introduced by a summary of previous fieldwork in the area, including a coring campaign in 1977-1978 which allowed a reconstruction of its historical geomorphology. After an overview of the new finds, which cover several occupation phases from the late 5th till the mid 3rd centuries BCE, and comprise remains of habitations and a more monumental structure, the historical implications of the excavation results are also discussed. In view of the size and dense occupation of the site, which have been confirmed by aerial photography and geophysical research, Magoula Plataniotiki seems to be the major centre of the polis of Halos in the Classical period, and possibly some time before that. Although d...

During the 2009 and 2010 seasons, the Zea Harbour Project (ZHP), under the Danish Institute at Athens and supervised by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, conducted surface cleaning, excavation, survey dives, and digital survey in the two ancient naval harbours of the Piraeus: Mounichia (modern Mikrolimano; Figs. 1‑2) and Zea (today also called Pashalimani; Figs. 1, 3). The Carlsberg Foundation has generously provided the funding for our fieldwork and research. The following report summarises the most significant results of the 2009 and 2010 campaigns.

The fourth season of work at the site of el-Zuma in Sudan was dedicated to the exploration of three different tumuli: middle-sized tumuli of Type II, L-shaped and Ushaped (T.9 and T.16, respectively), and the smallest size tumulus with rectangular vertical shaft and one side burial chamber, representing type III (T.20). A test trench dug on the southern edge of the biggest tumulus of type I (T.7) explored evidence for an external shaft, which turned out to lead to an underground tunnel reaching one of the burial chambers of

This article summarises the excavations of tomb AS 91, uncovered during the autumn season of 2016 at Abusir South. The mastaba was highly damaged and its superstructure had almost completely disappeared. Three shafts were detected in the mastaba core. Shafts 1 and 2 were rather shallow, but to the contrary, Shaft 3 was considerably deeper, and at its bottom, an unfinished burial chamber was hewn. The burial had been looted, but a few fragmentarily preserved human bones, a fairly high number of animal remains, and even two Barn Owl skeletons were collected there. The archaeological report is supported by an archaeozoological analysis of the animal remains and by an anthropological study of the fragmentary human bones. Abusir South – mastaba – superstructure – substructure – Old Kingdom – archaeozoology – anthropology Marie Peterková Hlouchová (marie.peterkovahlouchova@ff.cuni.cz) Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Dana Bělohoubková (BelohoubD@gmail.com...

This report summarises the first field season of interdisciplinary field survey in the northern Troodos mountains in Cyprus. The overall objective of the project is to integrate intensive archaeological and geomorphological survey with a range of other analytical techniques, in order to ...

The new excavations have also confirmed the surprising ethnic mix of material culture at Pyla: a Minoan amphoroid krater together with Cypriote pithoi and Canaanite jars in Sector 4, a Cypriot spindle bottle together with imported deep bowl and mug rhyton from the central plateau Trench 3.1, or a Canaanite jar, Mycenaean stirrup jar, Cypriot storage jar from the northwest trench , etc. To these may be added the Sardinian, Mycenaean and Hittite vases encountered in previous seasons. In view of the brevity of occupation and localization of the site, many of these objects may be regarded as resulting from intensive trade. The discovery of such mixed assemblages in all parts of the site, however, seems to suggest that all households had already adopted and adapted to a new set of practices. Why and how they did this are questions we would like to see answered during the following campaigns.

Pyla-Kokkinokremos, located just to the east of Larnaca Bay on top of a naturally fortified plateau, represents a singularly short-lived settlement in the island’s Late Bronze Age history. Established only a few decades prior to its eventual abandonment in the early 12th c. BC, the settlement represents a very valuable ‘time capsule’ of the Late Cypriot IIC-IIIA critical phase. The site was explored on several previous occasions, respectively by P. Dikaios, 1952; V. Karageorghis, 1981-1982; V. Karageorghis and A. Kanta, 2010-2011; Kanta, 2012-2013 (Karageorghis & Demas 1984; Karageorghis & Georgiou 2010; Karageorghis & Kanta 2014). Since 2014 Kokkinokremos is the object of a joint venture between the UGhent (J. Bretschneider), the UCLouvain (J. Driessen) and the Mediterranean Archaeological Society (A. Kanta) (Bretschneider, Kanta & Driessen 2015 & forthcoming). Intensive excavations suggest that the entire plateau of ca. 7 ha was densely occupied; excavated parts of the settlement ...

... Excavation in third-millennium levels proceeded this season in Area TC, which had been tested by Mallowan but not excavated since, and which proved to contain a public building dating to Early Dynastic III. ... 9c, Mallowan 1947: P1. 14, 11-13 and P1. ...

During the first two excavation seasons (2014–2015) at Yurta-Stroyno site numerous glass items were found – approximately 510 fragments. The majority of the glass pieces found have higher fragmentation that could be caused by material deposition in Antiquity or in modern time. The glass items were divided into several basic groups: glass vessels, window glass, personal decoration, glass production waste. The typological classification of the glass beads and vessels is listed below. Several massive glass pieces in blue-green color were identified as examples of raw glass that was used for secondary glass production. Moreover, there are a number of so-called production wastes (threads and trails) from various stages of the glass-working processes. The method of XRF analysis was chosen in order to complete the data needed to interpret the finds.

Between 2007 and 2011, the Belgian School at Athens undertook excavations on the Kefali or Buffo hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete, only a few kilometres east of Malia. The project has revealed the remains of a settlement and cemetery, used during diff erent phases of the Bronze Age (2500-1200 B.C.). This volume details the results of the 2011 campaign, the last in our first 5-year programme. The work in the different zones is described and reports on Late Minoan pottery, petrographic analysis, shells and ground stone tools are attached.

Pyla-Kokkinokremos, located just to the east of Larnaca Bay on top of a naturally fortified plateau, represents a singularly short-lived settlement in the island’s Late Bronze Age history. Established only a few decades prior to its eventual abandonment in the early 12th c. BC, the settlement represents a very valuable ‘time capsule’ of the Late Cypriot IIC-IIIA critical phase. The site was explored on several previous occasions, respectively by P. Dikaios, 1952; V. Karageorghis, 1981-1982; V. Karageorghis and A. Kanta, 2010-2011; Kanta, 2012-2013 (Karageorghis & Demas 1984; Karageorghis & Georgiou 2010; Karageorghis & Kanta 2014). Since 2014 Kokkinokremos is the object of a joint venture between the UGhent (J. Bretschneider), the UCLouvain (J. Driessen) and the Mediterranean Archaeological Society (A. Kanta) (Bretschneider, Kanta & Driessen 2015 & forthcoming). Intensive excavations suggest that the entire plateau of ca. 7 ha was densely occupied; excavated parts of the settlement ...

Since 2003 the Pyla- Koutsopetria Archaeological Project has systematically investigated a small region near the modern village of Pyla in southeastern Cyprus. Within this study region, the Hellenistic site of Pyla- Vigla is set atop a promontory of the same name, a toponym meaning “lookout.” Dating to the late 4th and early 3rd centuries B.C., the site was founded and occupied during a turbulent period in Cypriot history, one that saw the transition from rule by local city kingdoms to outright foreign imperial domination. Pyla- Vigla represents a key strategic position for warring Hellenistic kingdoms with interests in Egypt and those seeking to achieve superiority in the eastern Mediterranean. Recent archaeological work by the Pyla- Koutsopetria Archaeological Project has shed light on the lives of those living at a Hellenistic fort in Cyprus. Documenting sites like Vigla provides a valuable perspective on day-to-day life in the armies that shaped the Hellenistic world. DOI:10.245...

The ancient ruins of Khirbat ‘Ataruz are perched on a ridge overlooking the Dead Sea above the Wadi Zarqa Main on the north, and the Wadi Sayl Haydan on the south. It is located 24 km south of the town of Madaba, 10 km west of the village Libb and 3 km east of the ancient site of Machaerus, in Jordan (Fig. 1).1 This site once stood at a crossroads where the ancient roads coming from the Dead Sea, the Wadi Sayl Haydan and the town of Madaba met. During the summers of 2011-2012, a small team of eight archaeologists, students, and volunteers along with eighteen Jordanian workers from the Beni-Hamida region of Jordan continued excavations2 at Khirbat ‘Ataruz under the direction of Chang-Ho Ji of La Sierra University (Fig. 2). This project was excavated with the cooperation of the Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University.3

In November 2012, during a preventive archaeological excavation necessitated by the construction of a new highway bypassing Sajószentpéter (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, North-Eastern Hungary), a Middle Neolithic water well with astonishing wooden lining was uncovered by the archaeologists of Herman Ottó Museum, Miskolc. The 60 cm high remains of the tube-like wooden structure was made from a single oak tree with a total diameter of 90 cm. The trunk had been initially cut into four pieces (panels) that were later bond together with trusses of twisted rods. The wooden structure had amazing tool-marks on the entire surface that could be related to at least 3 different chisels/axes and bear fundamental information regarding the chaine opératoire.

Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst has been excavated several times since Martin Kříž started the first excavation in 1886. Two parts of the site were re-excavated in 2019. The primary aim was to conduct classical as well as innovative and experimental sedimentological and geoarchaeological investigations of sediments from the discarded spoil heap outside the cave entrance (trench C–D). Intact sediments with a small number of lithic artefacts and a large number of animal bones were also excavated during the 2019 excavation (trench A–B) located under the trench excavated by Bohuslav Klíma’s team in the 1950s. An attempt is being made using pXRF, benchtop ED-XRF and ITRAX techniques to link some of the sedimentary material in the spoil heap (C–D) with the stratified sediments in trench A–B. Animal bones and lithic artefacts were found in both trenches. Numerous samples were collected for geoarchaeological, palaeoenvironmental and dating analyses and the results will be published i...

s of First National Congress of Medical Informatics, Mashhad, Iran, February 2017 © 2017 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Page 179 EAST AZERBAIJAN POPULATION BASED CANCER REGISTRY DURING 2015 TO 2016: PRELIMINARY REPORT Mohammad Hossein Somi1, Roya Dolatkhah2*, Sepideh Sepahi, Mina Belalzadeh, Leila Abdollahi, Azin Nahvijoo 3, Saeed Nemati 3, Kazem Zendehdel3 1. Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2. Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3. Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of I.R. Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Correspondence: Roya Dolatkhah, Tel: +98 4133361358, Fax: +...

This report summarises the first field season of interdisciplinary field survey in the northern Troodos mountains in Cyprus. The overall objective of the project is to integrate intensive archaeological and geomorphological survey with a range of other analytical techniques, in order to ...

ost of the studies on the city of Ḥīra are based on Islamic Arabic and Syriac literary sources. Prominent among studies in Arabic is the research by Yousif Rizq-Allāh Ghanīma, which makes use of the 10century Kitāb al-Aghānī, among other sources, as well as the chapter on the same city by Dr. Jawad Ali in his Encyclopedia on the Arabs before Islam. Studies in foreign languages include the fundamental research by the German scholar Gustav Rothstein, which approached the literary sources critically while reconstructing the succession of princely rulers of Ḥīra. M. J. Kister’s research increased our knowledge about the city after he exploited the manuscript al-manāqib al-mazyadiyya of Abū al-Baqā’ (11-12 century), which offers relevant details not found elsewhere. Nöldeke’s translation and study of the history of al-Ṭabarī, in which he also consulted the Syriac sources, was a step forward in expanding the research on Ḥīra. The same can be said of the work of Nina V. Pigulevskaia, on the connection between Arabs, Sassanians, and Byzantines. There is also a survey article on Ḥīra by Irfan Shahid. The present paper adds another dimension to the sources mentioned above by making use of recent archaeological discoveries in Ḥīra unearthed during the latest season (2010-2011), in which important Christian remains were found.