Archaeology in Asia Minor 1985-1989

Abstract

The scope of work on Classical Archaeology in Asia Minor has expanded considerably in the five years since the last report (see Fig. 1, and compare AR 1984-85 70-105). A full collection of reports on each year's field work appears in two series of volumes, the Kazi Sonuglan Toplantisi and the Arastirma Sonuglan Toplantisi. These are the published records of the annual Symposia organized by the Department of Antiquities (formerly the Eski Eserler ve Miizeler Genel Mudurlugii, now the Anitlar ve Miizeler Genel Mudurlugii = General Directorate for Monuments and Museums) at which researchers are required to present the results of the previous year's activities. Thus an oral report is delivered to the Symposium between six and ten months after completion of field work, and a published version appears a year later. VI Kazi Sonuglan Toplantisi, published in spring 1985, contains the reports presented to the 1984 Symposium on all the excavations which took place in Turkey in 1983. // Arastirma Sonuglan Toplantisi, published at the same time, contains accounts of surveys and other research activity excluding excavation carried out in 1983. The two series have continued annually and the latest volumes to appear are XI Kazi Sonuglan Toplantisi and VII Arastirma Sonuglan Toplantisi, which appeared in spring 1990 and report on the activities of 1988. In addition since 1985 there has been an Archaeometry section of the Symposium, whose findings have been published in I-V Arkeometri Sonuglan Toplantisi. For reports on the 1989 field season I have occasionally relied on the brief summaries circulated to participants at the 1990 Symposium. The increase in field work has been such that volumes VIII to XI in the excavation series, and volume V of the research series have been published in two parts. The only officially authorized field work which is not recorded in these volumes is a small number of minor excavations carried out by local museums. Unfortunately many of these are never reported in print at all. This admirably prompt system of publication has one significant drawback for foreign archaeologists and scholars, namely the fact that most of the articles are in Turkish.