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Seeliger, Martin, Pint, Anna, Frenzel, Peter, Weisenseel, Paula K., Erkul, Ercan, Wilken, Dennis, Wunderlich, Tina, Basaran, Sait, Buecherl, Heike, Herbrecht, Marina, Rabbel, Wolfgang, Schmidts, Thomas, Szemkus, Nina and Brueckner, Helmut (2018). Using a Multi-Proxy Approach to Detect and Date a Buried part of the Hellenistic City Wall of Ainos (NW Turkey). Geosciences, 8 (10). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2076-3263

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Abstract

Throughout mankind's history, the need to secure and protect the home settlement was an essential one. This holds especially true for the city of Ainos (modern Enez) in Turkish Thrace. Due to its continuous settlement history since the 7th/6th century BC, several different types of city walls were builtsometimes even on top of each otherseveral of which have been preserved over time. To decipher the construction style, the course and the age of a buried city wall segment in the southern part of the former city, a geoscientific multi-proxy approach including magnetic gradiometer (MG) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements in combination with granulometrical, sedimentological and microfaunistical investigations on sediment cores was applied. We were able to (1) present reasonable arguments for its Hellenistic age; (2) reveal the course of this wall segment and extrapolate it further north into a less studied area; and (3) demonstrate that in this near-coastal area, the former swampy terrain had been consolidated for constructing the wall. Our multi-proxy approach serves as a valuable example for investigating buried structures in archaeological contexts, avoiding a less-economical, time-consuming, or even forbidden excavation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Seeliger, Martin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pint, Anna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Frenzel, Peter UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Weisenseel, Paula K. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Erkul, Ercan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wilken, Dennis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wunderlich, Tina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Basaran, Sait UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Buecherl, Heike UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Herbrecht, Marina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rabbel, Wolfgang UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schmidts, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Szemkus, Nina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Brueckner, Helmut UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-170949
DOI:	10.3390/geosciences8100357
Journal or Publication Title:	Geosciences
Volume:	8
Number:	10
Date:	2018
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2076-3263
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ANCIENT HARBORS; NILE DELTA; GREECE; BAY; EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTS; IGNITION; ISLAND; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PROGRADATION Multiple languages Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/17094