The Black Sea Trade Project

using new archaeological techniques and a holistic approach

to explore the ancient colony of Sinop

from mountaintop to ocean bottom

Journals.

Summer'99 Journal | Summer'98 Journal

Underwater Season 2000

The Black Sea and the Port of Sinop

C O N T E N T S

Sinop, an Historical and Archaeological Overview

Hinterland Survey Overview

1996 General Survey

1997 Demirci Valley Survey

1998-99 Karasu valley survey

1999 Boz tepe survey

Ottoman Archival Research

Geomorphological Survey

Geomagnetic Survey

Sinop Museum Classical Ceramics Catalog

Sinop Underwater Survey

BSTP Team Members, 1996-1999

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In the News

Hiebert Reports on Underwater Evidence

Ballard Reveals Remains of Ancient Ship

Ballard Gets OK to Recover Black Sea Artifacts

Ballard Finds Traces of Ancient Habitation beneath Black Sea

National Public Radio interview with Neil Conan

Fred Hiebert National Geographic Researcher of the month

Interviews on National Geographic Society web-site

Washington Post article by Guy Gugliotta, 18 Sept 99

Discovering Archaeology Greatest Discovery of 2000

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Research Objectives and Sub-projects

The Black Sea Trade Project is an interdisciplinary study of trade systems in the Black Sea over the past 5,000 years and their effects on local cultures and economies.  The project focuses on the hinterland and port of Sinop (ancient Sinope), an important Greek and Roman colony at the midpoint of the Turkish Black Sea coast. Our long-term goal is to document the development of Sinop and its hinterland from mountaintop to ocean bottom using techniques that will disturb the archaeological record as little as possible (Hiebert et al. 1997).  Directed by Fredrik T. Hiebert, the Black Sea Trade Project is committed to the development and expansion of new technologies that expand the non-destructive investigation of the archaeological record. The project includes  survey programs on land and under water geomorphological research art historical documentation of under-studied material held in museum collections, comprehensive study of literary, historical and epigraphical evidence selected emergency excavation of sites under threat of modern building

C O N T A C T S

Fredrik T. Hiebert, Director, Black Sea Trade Project Robert H. Dyson Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator of Near Eastern Antiquities at the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Owen P. Doonan, Director, Sinop Regional Survey Robert H. Dyson Postdoctoral Fellow, Near Eastern Section University of Pennsylvania Museum

Alex Gantos, Assistant Director, Sinop Regional Survey Department of Archaeology, Boston University

David Smart, Director, Sinop Museum Classical Ceramics Catalog Curatorial Fellow, Greek and Roman Department, Cleveland Museum of Art

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