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The four years since this newsletter last appeared have been momentous ones in the history of Turkey and also in the archaeology of that country. In the terrible earthquakes of 1999 that took so many lives, some ancient monuments were damaged and work on some projects was cut short. Also in 1999, the visit of former U.S. president Bill Clinton to Ephesos raised public awareness of Turkish archaeology worldwide at a time when tourist numbers were threatening to flounder following a period of unrest and natural disasters. The completion of several large dam projects, which flooded large areas of Turkey, also brought about many new excavations and surveys aimed at recording and recovering as much archaeology as possible before the final inundation and, in some cases, also making news headlines worldwide.
the second field season of the Cide archaeological Project (CaP) proved highly successful in several respects. our intensive survey approach allowed us to gain a rich diachronic perspective on human occupation of, and interaction with, selected parts of the Cide landscape. We focused much of our efforts on the exploration of the roman and Byzantine landscapes of Cide, while a geoarchaeological investigation provided us with a better understanding of the geomorphological processes which shape this region and affect its archaeology. owing to discoveries made during both intensive and targeted survey, we have been able to fill many gaps in the region's culture historical sequence. attested now are virtually all major periods from the Epipalaeolithic to the present. in this report we present our most important results.
Print Publications. Following the example set by the Keban Dam Rescue Projects, publication of the salvage excavations in the flood areas of the new Birecik, Karkamish, Ihsu, and Batman Dams have been published with admirable speed. The second volume, consisting of reports from the 1999 season, is now available.4 * This article is based on notes taken at the 23rd International Symposium of Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry in Ankara (28 May-1 June 2001) and from published works. Many excavators provided reports, illustrations, and information for inclusion here and are credited in the text, for these we are enormously grateful. Thanks are also due to Suheyla Gedik of Hacettepe University, the staff of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara and the University of Liverpool.
This paper examines the ways in which the study of oral history sources can help re-evaluate results of past archaeological surveys and help plan future ones. The case for this study is the surveys done at and around Komana, a multi-layered site situated in the central Black Sea region in Turkey. Specifically, the sites identified as Byzantine are taken into account in the light of oral history records created following two important events in recent history. These two events are nineteenth-century economically driven migration of Christians into the region around Komana and the dislocation/perishing of Armenian and Greek inhabitants of the region during and following World War I. While the former prompted a "rediscovery" of many abandoned medieval sites, the collective trauma of the latter resulted in the creation of two extremely rich sources for the study of local history/topography: Armenian memory books and Greek Oral Tradition Archive, now preserved in Athens. The paper will attempt to bring together oral history and archaeology, identify possible settlement types and locations in relation to descriptions of the rural landscape in these historical sources and create a guide for surveyors while re-visiting previously detected sites or predicting the locations of new ones.