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Ongoing Archaeological Projects

Megaliths on Sumatra (Indonesien)

Dominik Bonatz

Telling Stones - Megaliths on Sumatra Impressive megalithic remains scatter on many of the thousands of Indonesian islands: from Sumatra, Nias and Java in the west, to Sulawesi in the north and Sumba and Flores in the east of the archipelago. The morphological diversity of the stone ...

Gird-i-Begum (Irakisch-Kurdistan)

Susan Pollock

Gird-i Begum (Iraqi Kurdistan) Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock In the summer of 2022 a team from Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, began renewed excavations at the site of Gird-i Begum in the Shahrizor Plain. The site had ...

Iranian Highlands Project (Iran)

Susan Pollock

The Iranian Highlands: Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies The Iranian highlands play a central role in many periods of cultural development in the wider region. Highland societies were in close contact with the surrounding regions with which political and economic relationships ...

Varamin Plain Project (Iran)

Susan Pollock

The Varamin Plain Project (VPP) is a cooperation between the Institute for Western Asian Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), under the direction of Prof. Dr. Morteza Hessari, Prof. Dr. Susan Pollock, and Prof. Reinhard Bernbeck. ...

Ba'ja (Jordan)

Hans-Georg Gebel in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Department of Antiquities, Amman, repräsentiert durch Dr. Fawwas al-Khraysheh

Tell Ushayer (Jordanien)

Dominik Bonatz

Archäologische Voruntersuchungen an dem nahe Irbid, in Nordjordanien gelegenen Fundort Tell Ushayer weisen auf eine für die Späte Bronzezeit und Frühe Eisenzeit höchst interessante bauliche Anlage. Der Tell ist auf seinem Plateau mit einer monumentalen, kreisrunden Befestigungsmauer umgeben. ...

Tell Schech Hamad (Syria)

Hartmut Kühne

DFG long term project since 1978 (since 1980 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Kühne) Project partners: Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Röllig, Universität Tübingen Asaad Mahmoud, Direktor i.R. des Museums von Deir az-Zor, Syrien   Please find more detailed informations on the ...

Gerçin Höyük (Türkei)

Dominik Bonatz

Tempelhofer Flugfeld (Deutschland, Berlin)

Susan Pollock

K.W.I. für Anthropologie (Deutschland, Berlin)

Susan Pollock

TAP Team 2023 during campaign

TAP - Togolok Archaeological Project

Dr. Barbara Cerasetti

After a long break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the TAP – Togolok Archaeological Project, directed by Dr Barbara Cerasetti (FU Berlin; ISMEO), has finally started again activities on September 2023 at the Bronze Age settlement of Togolok 1 in collaboration with the Universität Bern, confirming ...