Project director Marc Waelkens inspects the head of a Roman statue found at Sagalassos. Team members and Turkish workmen in front of the theater of Sagalassos. More than 200 people work at the excavations each summer. The 2007 Domestic Area team, directed by Inge Uytterhoeven, Sevgi Gercek and Rob Rens The 2007 depot management team, the drawing team, the archaezoologists, and other specialists The 2007 Odeion team, directed by Bart De Graeve, Ugur Altay and Katrien Hoet The 2007 Roman Baths 1 team, directed by Marie Lefere, Hasan Uzunoglu and Aude Goovaerts The 2007 Roman Baths 2 team, directed by Christine Beckers, Mustafa Kiremitci and Willem Hantson The 2007 Colonnaded Street team, directed by Ine Jacobs, Koen Demarsin, Ralf Vandam and Tayfun Isiklar The 2007 Tepe Düzen team, directed by Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Kim Vyncke, Jonas Danckers, Annelies Coenen, and Merve Ozkilic The 2007 Macellum team, directed by Julian Richard, Firat Kesim and Marijke Van Looy The 2007 finds and statue conservation team The 2007 site conservation team, directed by Ebru Torun and Goze Uner The 2006 finds conservation team, directed by Emine Kocak The 2006 Colonnaded Street team, directed by Ine Jacobs, Ralf Vandam and Tayfun Isiklar The 2006 Domestic Area team, directed by Inge Uytterhoeven, Sevgi Gercek and Rob Rens The 2006 Macellum team, directed by Julian Richard, Mustafa Kiremitci and Christine Beckers The 2006 Odeion team, directed by Bart De Graeve, Ugur Altay and Marc D'Haese The 2006 Roman Baths 1 team, directed by Frank Carpentier and Hasan Uzunoglu The 2006 Roman Baths 2 team, directed by Tijl Vereenooghe, Annelies Coenen and Rukiye Sen Photos courtesy Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. Click on images to enlarge.

Staff Profiles Philip Bes is a Ph.D. student studying the production and distribution of tablewares in the eastern Mediterranean between the late Hellenistic and early Byzantine periods within the ICRATES Project. While studying at the University of Leiden (Netherlands), he participated in the Boeotia Survey Project (Greece) and completed his master thesis in December 2003. Bart Clijsner is the ICT-manager of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project at the KULeuven since 2006. He is also taking care of an interactive database application to register and archive all archaeological (and in the future other interdisciplinary) objects conform to the new locus system. Markku Corremans is a Ph.D. student preparing a dissertation on Roman and early-Byzantine provincial towns as production, consumption, and distribution centers. He has a masters in commercial engineering (1996) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a masters in archaeology (2004) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Bea De Cupere works within the Archaeozoology Unit of the Museum of Natural Sciences (Brussels) and has been studying the animal bones of Sagalassos since 1992. After obtaining her Ph.D. in 1998, she also studied animal bones from other Near Eastern sites. Patrick Degryse is professor of archaeometry in the geology section of the Centre for Archaeological Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research focuses on the history, use, and technology of ancient mineral raw materials and artifacts. Bart De Graeve has a masters in ancient history (2001) and archaeology (2004) from KULeuven. After his studies, he worked for a year as an archaeologist in the Netherlands (Dordrecht). He is now preparing a Ph.D. on the urbanization and romanization of Asia Minor under the Flavian emperors. Koen Demarsin is a Ph.D. student studying the transformation from paganism to Early Christianity in Late Antiquity. After having finished his master thesis (K.U.Leuven) on the burial situation between pagans and Christians in Rome, he completed an extra year at the faculty of Theology (K.U.Leuven) investigating Cyprian's attitude toward non-Christians. Jan Elsen is a professor of mineralogy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research covers topics related to the industrial use of minerals, currently centered on building materials such as ceramics, mortars, plaster, and concrete. He is trying to characterize the historical lime mortars at Sagalassos and formulate new mixes for restoration work. Semih Ercan, a civil engineer (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) with a masters from the Raymond Lemaire Centre for Conservation at the KULeuven, specializes in stone conservation techniques. He completed the conservation of the Late Hellenistic Nymphaeum and the Neon Library with T. Patricio, and he has been directing the conservation of the Antonine Nymphaeum since 1998. Semih also works as an independent architectural conservation specialist and has participated in different projects in the UK, Turkey, and Ukraine. Ine Jacobs is a Ph.D. student working on urban aesthetics in the late antiquity city in the eastern Mediterranean. This includes an assessment of both the urban design of new settlements as wall as transformations in the urban fabric of existing towns, the quality of late antiquity architecture and infrastructure, and its further adornment. During her archaeology studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, she has worked on medieval and Roman sites in Belgium. Nathalie Kellens is a doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a member of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. She has been documenting the metal finds from the instrumentarium domesticum at Sagalassos since graduating in archaeology in 2001. Veerle Lauwers is a Ph.D student preparing a dissertation on the Roman and Byzantine glass of Sagalassos. She worked at Gallo-Roman sites in Belgium during her studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. After earning a masters in eastern Mediterranean archaeology, she spent some time studying Minoan ceramics in Crete. Femke Martens has studied archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1996) and conservation of ancient monuments and landscapes at the Henry van de Velde Instituut in Antwerp (1997). She completed Ph.D. focusing on the urban development of Sagalassos from the Hellenistic period to the mid-seventh century A.D. She has been participating in the excavations at Sagalassos since 1994 and has supervised the intensive urban survey since 1999, reconstructing the functional organization and chronological evolution of the urban area's occupation. Her current postdoctoral research focuses on the street system and water network of the town. Philippe Muchez is a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and heads the ore geology and geofluids research unit. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Liverpool and University of Amsterdam. He has been undertaking geological surveys at Sagalassos since 1996, focusing on building stones, mineral occurrences, and the use of calcite precipitates in neotectonic studies. Etienne Paulissen is a professor of geomorphology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven specializing in the evolution of physical environment on different time scales. He has participated in the Sagalassos Project since 1991 and focuses on the colluviation/alluviation history, the significance of catastrophic and abrupt climatic events, and the human impact for the last 7,000 years. Jeroen Poblome is a professor of archaeology at the Katholieke Universitieit Leuven. He functions as ceramic advisor to the Sagalassos project for the periods between Iron Age and mid Byzantine times. He specializes in artisanal production mechanisms and exchange patterns in the eastern Mediterranean from the late Hellenistic to early Byzantine periods, and has therefore conceived of the ICRATES project. Recently, he co-founded FACTA, an international journal of Roman material culture studies. Toon Putzeys is a doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a member of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. After graduating in archaeology, he completed an additional education program in computer science focusing on data management and statistics. He is currently developing a methodology for analysis of stratigraphical contexts based on the material from Sagalassos. Julian Richard is a Ph.D. student studying the social and religious functions of Roman nymphaea in the eastern Mediterranean during the Imperial Period. He recently obtained a Masters in eastern Mediterranean archaeology (KULeuven, 2004) after having completed archaeology studies at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Namur) and the Université Catholique de Louvain (U.C.L). Manuel Sintubin is a research associate of the Onderzoeksfonds Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a professor of structural geology and tectonics. His research at Sagalassos focuses on the reconstruction of the seismic history of the territory. Together with Dominique Similox-Tohon, Griet Verhaert, Philippe Muchez (KULeuven), and Kris Vanneste (Royal Observatory of Belgium), he is trying to identify the seismically active faults and assess the current seismic hazard in the area. Ebru Torun is an architect (Middle East Technical University) specializing in conservation of historic sites and buildings (Centre Lemaire, KULeuven). She is responsible for the Northwest Heroon restoration project at Sagalassos. She has also parcitipated in Southampton University's Quseir al-Qadim Project (Egypt) as site conservator. Inge Uytterhoeven studied Classical Philology (1995) and Archaeology (1998) at the KULeuven. She has been participating in the Sagalassos excavations since 1997. Since finishing her Ph.D. on Graeco-Roman Hawara in the Egyptian Fayum in 2003, she has been studying late antique housing at Sagalassos and in Asia Minor as a post-doctoral fellow (FWO-Flanders). Tijl Vereenooghe is a Ph.D. student at the KULeuven. He has participated in the Sagalassos excavations since 1999 and joined the project in 2003. He is currently involved in the new Center for Archaeological Sciences (www.archscience.be) and the European EPOCH network (Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage). Hannelore Vanhaverbeke obtained her Ph.D. in archaeology in 1999. Since then she has been a postdoctoral research fellow of the Fund of Scientific Research, Flanders, working with the Sagalassos team. Her main area of research is changing land use in the immediate environment of Hellenistic-Roman-Early Byzantine Sagalassos, also focusing on the centuries preceding and following the city's existence. Since 2006 she coordinates the archaeological research at Tepe Düzen, the Archaic-Classical urban predecessor of Sagalassos. Wim Van Neer has been supervising the animal bone studies at Sagalassos since 1991. He directs the Archaeozoology Unit of the Museum of Natural Sciences (Brussels) and is a part-time lecturer in the post-graduate Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology program at the KULeuven. He has studied animal bones in Africa, the Near East, and Belgium since 1976. Fish are his favorite animals. Marc Waelkens has been involved in surveys and excavations in Greece, Syria, and Turkey since 1969. He specializes in Anatolian archaeology of the Graeco-Roman period and in ancient quarrying and stone technology. Waelkens is L. Baert-Hofman Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and acting director of Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. He is a member of various academies (Belgium, Austria), and foreign schools (British School at Athens, German Archaeological Institute). In 1986 he was awarded the Samuel H. Kress lectureship of the Archaeological Institute of America, and next year he is invited by the Australian Institute of Archaeology for two months of lecturing. In 2001 he received the prestiguous John E. Solvay Prize for the Humanities in Belgium, and in 2002 he was granted the Medaillon for Outstanding Service, the most prestitguous Turkish award for foreigners.

InteractiveDig is produced by ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine
© 2008 Archaeological Institute of America