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QuarryScapes guide to ancient stone quarry landscapes

 

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Links

The Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stone Used in Antiquity (ASMOSIA).

This is the only international scientific association dealing with all aspects of procurement and use of stone in Prehistory, Antiquity and later periods.

http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/ASMOSIA

Archaeological Geology of Ancient Egypt

Website of James Harrell with short descriptions of all ancient stone quarries known in Egypt

http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/Faculty/Harrell/Egypt/AGRG_Home.html

Sagalassos archaeological project

Websites of the Sagalassos project, to which QuarryScapes is associated (Work Package 3)

http://www.sagalassos.be

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/sagalassos

 

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NEWS
December 2009
New book: a special volume with papers from the QuarryScapes project soon printed.
November 2008
Final workshop: the third QuarryScapes workshop was held in Aswan 12. - 15. October
June 2008
Final Reports: available for download
June 2008
More Palaeolithic quarries in Aswan Recent visits to the Aswan West Bank in Egypt have added new discoveries...

April 2008
QuarryScapes third workshop Aswan, October 12-15 2008

April 2008
Rescue of an obelisk top in Egypt Aswan, March 2008

December 2007
Second QuarryScapes Workshop 18-21 October 2007, Petra, Jordan

December 2007
Final Reports: Aswan West Bank Ancient Quarry Landscape

March 2007
New Aswan City: Rescue survey in progress

March 2007
QuarryScapes fieldwork in Egypt: The final season of survey at the Aswan silicified sandstone quarries revealed previously undocumented ancient paved roads

December 2006
Second Aswan field season The second QuarryScapes fieldwork season in Aswan took place through November 2006.

November 2006
First symposium
The first QuarryScapes symposium took place at Divan Talya hotel in Antalya (Turkey) 15-17 October 2006.
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