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Archaeology

Minerex, Ireland
Hartmut Krahn
www.mgx.ie

University Gent
Prof. Frank Vermeulen
www.ugent.be

University Groningen
Prof. Peter Attema
www.rug.nl

University Zuerich
Dr. Rouven Turck
www.archaeologie.uzh.ch

FIAK - Free Institute
for Applied Cultural Studies

Cottbus - Fulda
www.fiak.de

Geophysical Modelling
Dr. Thomas Günther,
Hannover

www.resistivity.net
Prof. Dr. Andreas Weller,
TU Clausthal

www.ifg.tu-clausthal.de

Exzellenzcluster TOPOI
Freie Universität Berlin /
Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin

www.topoi.org

Urban development in Assyria
Project Geomagnetic prospection on Tell Sheikh Hamad (Syria)
Location    
Tell Sheikh Hamad (Provinces of Deir az-Zor and Hassake, Syria)
Period Middle, New and Post-Assyrian, 13th to 6th century BC
Methods Geomagnetics
Client
FU Berlin, Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kühne


Tell Sheikh Hamad (Syria)

Excavation "Red House"

OBJECTIVES Tell Sheikh Hamad is the modern name of the Assyrian province center Dur-Katlimmu situated in North Mesopotamia upon the lower reaches of the Khabur river, once one of the most important tributaries of the Euphrates, between the cities of Hassake and Deir az-Zor (Syria). Geomagnetic investigations were projected in the area of the Lower Towns of Dur-Katlimmus to bring more precise information on the expansion and structure of the Middle and New Assyrian administration centre and result in a kind of city map.

COMPLETED WORKS and results
The total investigated area inside and outside the mudbrick city wall covers more than 40 hectares. The data is evidence of the existence of several monumental building complexes. The course of the city wall could be defined more precisely. Aside from the located house structures the courses of water channels bringing water from the Khabur river into the city and its dry hinterland.

Magnetogram of a monumental building Interpretation

Contact
Dipl.-Geophys. Cornelius Meyer (meyer@eastern-atlas.com )

links
Information on research and excavation in Tell Sheikh Hamad:
(www.schechhamad.de )

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ACTIVITY OVERVIEW
Archaeology, building research
and forensics

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ARCHAEOPROSPECTION
Brochure (German)
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TECHNOLOGY
Geomagnetics (German)
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IP geoelectrics at slag heaps (English)
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(Poster at Conference on "Early Iron in Europe – Prehistoric and Roman Iron Production", Hüttenberg, Austria, Sept. 2008)


ENGINEERING AND
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOPHYSICS

Geophysics in civil engineering
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(Excerpt of a dissertation at
TU Berlin by Dipl.-Ing. Holger Böhm, in German)


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