The important commercial center of Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor was brought to light during the Yenikapı excavations carried out by Istanbul Archaeological Museums for nine years, starting in 2004. Hundreds thousands archaeological finds and remains thirty-seven ships sunk different centuries were discovered at harbor site. Upon invitation Museums, University undertook removal, documentat...

Two techniques based on analytical pyrolysis and mass spectrometry, direct exposure-MS (DE-MS) and pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS), were used to characterise waterlogged archaeological wood and to study degradation patterns of wood in aqueous environments. The two techniques were applied to samples from the excavation of the Site of the Ancient Ships of Pisa San Rossor...

BACKGROUND Given the relative abundance of modern human DNA and the inherent impossibility for incontestable proof of authenticity, results obtained on ancient human DNA have often been questioned. The widely accepted rules regarding ancient DNA work mainly affect laboratory procedures, however, pre-laboratory contamination occurring during excavation and archaeological-/anthropological handlin...

A research in CRM settings should be undertaken within a problemoriented research agenda. Expectations regarding the type of data that might be recovered based on limited or no prior testing are often used to justify proposed research questions that may serve to guide excavation for data recovery. Research conducted on subsurface huntergatherer archaeological zones often proposes to investigate...

Artifacts are often found in archaeological excavation sites mixed with each other randomly. Therefore, classifying them manually is a difficult task and time consuming because they commonly exceed thousands of fragments. Thus, the aim of this study is to find a solution for classification of ancient pottery into groups by computer assistance. This is a preparatory stage for the next phase, whi...

Environmental archaeology of archaeological sites on both sides of the Dachang section in the Daning River, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, shows that riverbed evolution has a great influence on the distribution of archaeological sites during the prehistorical and historical period, and it restricts human activity and the development of ancient culture. Field investigation, dating data, ...