The Urban Organization of Kolophon and Its Necropoleis: The Results of the 2011–2014 Surveys

Kolophon was one of the most prominent early Greek settlements in Ionia (western Asia Minor). The synoikismos of the inhabitants of Kolophon and Lebedos in connection with the refoundation of Ephesos (Asinoeia) by king Lysimachos in the early Hellenistic period is well known. Little is known about the archaeology of Kolophon. Several tumuli of the Geometric period have been excavated as well as a sanctuary of Meter. Recent survey activities provide information about the extent of the settlement.

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LiDAR‐guided Archaeological Survey of a Mediterranean Landscape: Lessons from the Ancient Greek Polis of Kolophon (Ionia, Western Anatolia)

Grammer

Draganits

Gretscher

et al. 2017

Archaeological Prospection

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In 2013, an airborne laser scan survey was conducted in the territory of the Ionian city of Kolophon near the western coast of modern Turkey as part of an archaeological survey project carried out by the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul (Turkey) and the University of Vienna (Austria). Several light detection and ranging (LiDAR) studies have been carried out in the temperate climate zones of Europe, but only a few in Mediterranean landscapes. Our study is based on the first LiDAR survey carried out for an archaeological purpose in Turkey and one of the first in the Mediterranean that have been planned, measured and filtered especially for archaeological research questions. The interpretation of LiDAR data combined with ground‐observations proved extremely useful for the detection and documentation of archaeological remains below Mediterranean evergreen vegetation and dense maquis. This article deals with the methodological aspects of interpreting LiDAR data, using the Kolophon data as a case study. We offer a discussion of the strengths and limitations of LiDAR as an archaeological remote sensing method and suggest a best practice model for interpreting LiDAR data in a Mediterranean context. © 2017 The Authors. Archaeological Prospection published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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The Urban Organization of Kolophon and Its Necropoleis: The Results of the 2011–2014 Surveys

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