| Archeomagnetic
studies in Turkey are very few. However, Turkey is extremely rich in archeological
sites, ranging from Bronze age to Hellenistic, roman and Ottoman eras.
The research of Pinar
aims at acquiring archeomagnetic results from a wide range of periods,
but at the moment focusses on the Hittites and contemporaneous settlements.
The Hittite
kingdom was commonly called the Land of Hatti by the Hittites themselves,
but the fullest expression is "The Land of the City of Hattusa". This description
could be applied to either the entire empire, or more narrowly just to
the core territory, depending upon context. |
The
Hittite Empire (in red) in ca. 1290 BC, bordering on the Egyptian
Empire (green)
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The Hittite kingdom is
conventionally divided into three periods, the Old Hittite Kingdom (ca.
1750–1500 BC), the Middle Hittite Kingdom (ca. 1500–1430 BC) and the New
Hittite Kingdom (the Hittite Empire proper, ca. 1430–1180 BC).
One of the sites is Kültepe,
the name of the modern village near the ancient city of Kaneš in central
eastern Anatolia. The city's name Kaneš is popularly transliterated as
"Kanesh" because of the way Hittite was recorded in cuneiform.
| Alalakh,
or Alalah, is another site and is the name of an ancient city and its associated
city-state of the Amuq River valley, located in the Hatay region of southern
Turkey near the city of Antakya (ancient Antioch), and now represented
by an extensive city-mound known as Tell Atchana.
Andy
Biggin is co-supervisor of Pinar,
in
particular on palaeointensities.
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Bike
helping with the sampling of fragile ovens
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For an overview of the
archaeological sites sampled so far, click on the map below:
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