News & Insights from the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute
Recently, our colleague Lee Clare was a guest on Tristan Hughes’ podcast “The Ancients”. They spoke about on-going research at the Early Neolithic settlement and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Türkiye. Author Image: L. Clare You can listen in to their conversation, which discusses the function of the site, its prehistoric […]
The publication platform iDAI.publications is an important element in the digital research landscape (iDAI.world) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). iDAI.publications is a platform for digital editions of a large number of DAI journals, monographs, series and anthologies providing worldwide access. The Istanbul Department’s journal Istanbuler Mitteilungen (IstMitt) was first published over 80 years ago. […]
Mortuary practices are cultural phenomena common to humanity, and therefore burials and the “archaeology of death” have long been recognized as essential sources for all archaeologies. This is also true of Byzantine archaeology, and in recent decades graves and tombs, cemeteries and burial churches have increasingly been the focus of historical, art historical, and scientific […]
The German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University invite you to the 47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) workshop, which will be held on the 6th and 7th December 2024 in Istanbul. The IMS workshops are biannual informal meetings, at which survey-related research of recent fieldwork and methodological studies can be presented, explored and tested. […]
Recent decades have seen a great expansion of attention to the production, distribution, and consumption of transport amphoras throughout the Mediterranean. This expansion is due in part to the encouragement of the PATABS conferences, the welcoming setting of the IARPotHP conferences, where an increasing number of papers are concerned with amphoras, and the amphora-focused conferences […]
The new lecture programme 2024/ 2025 is online! The lectures will take place on Thursdays at 18:00 (Istanbul time) in the announced language. The events will be hybrid, both physical and online on ZOOM. Information and registration links for each event will be shared on our social media. For physical participation, please register in advance […]
The German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University invite you to the 47th International Mediterranean Survey (IMS) workshop, which will be held on the 6th and 7th December 2024 in Istanbul. The IMS workshops are biannual informal meetings, where you and your team members can present / explore / test survey-related […]
The 73rd volume of the Istanbuler Mitteilungen has been published! From the Neolithic architecture of eastern Anatolia to the Roman imperial period on the west coast of Anatolia and the Byzantine architectural sculpture in Phrygia, there are many exciting articles. ©DAI-IST | Authors: Coverphoto: © Sagalassos Archaeological Research ProjectDesign: LMK Büro für Kommunikationsdesign To access […]
Don’t miss the newest open sources paper on “Inspired individuals and charismatic leaders.Hunter-gatherer crisis and the rise and fall of invisible decision-makers at Göbeklitepe” looking at the evidence for charasmatic leaders at Göbeklitepe and with results from recent excavations in Praehistorica 51 (2024). Please use the following link to access the article. https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/18771
Artificial Intelligence is going to change, or has already changed, many areas of archaeological research. Keywords related to archaeology and AI are data management, big data, automatic classification of artefact analyses, or robotics in the field. Methods and tasks that are already in daily use in archaeological projects. But with all the potential, this technology […]
