Category: Bronze Age

Palaikastro, Crete: new book publication of the PALAP Project fresh from the press this summer!

This July the BSA’s ‘Supplementary Volumes’ series published a new volume by Carl Knappett, Alexandra Livarda and Nicoletta Momigliano that brought together the results of their PALAP Palaikastro landscape and excavation project in the east of Crete.  The book presents the results of excavations at the settlement, landscape survey and palaeoenvironmental analysis, revealing long-term agropastoral subsistence strategies…
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Seeds from a Lost Citadel: Unearthing Plant Life at Bronze Age Kaymakçı

This July, Dr Charlotte Diffey spent two weeks at the site of Kaymakҫı in Western Türkiye processing archaeobotanical samples as part of the Kaymakҫı Archaeological Project (KAP) in collaboration with Koҫ University, Istanbul. The site itself is a Middle and Late Bronze Age fortified citadel, located on the western shore of Lake Marmara. In recent…
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