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Excavation campaign 2023
Published on : 21.01.2026
The areas excavated in 2023A new six-week campaign took place at Dikili Tash in July-August 2023, more precisely in sector 9, on the northern slope of the tell. Some forty people participated, archaeologists, students, and workers from Greece, France, and Bulgaria.
The continuation of House 9-B was uncovered in the southwest area beneath the last remains of House 9-A. It includes the remains of a thermal structure, probably a hearth. In the southeast area, a layer of stones and pottery sherds was discovered, from which five parallel rows of posts emerged. This seems to be a structure that would have supported a raised platform/floor.
The connection between the north and south part of the sector is interrupted by the presence of three large Early Bronze Age pits, which proved to be much deeper and richer than expected and are still not fully excavated.
Le temps et ses noms. Construire une chronologie égéo-balkanique du 7e au 4e millénaire avant J.-C., 2025
Published on : 21.01.2026
Zoï Tsirtsoni, co-director of the Dikili Tash project, has just published, in the collection Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR), a book of more than 500 pages about the relative and absolute chronology of the long period — about 3,500 years — known in Greece as the “Neolithic.”
Designed for archaeologists specializing in the Aegean and Balkan prehistory, as well as for anyone interested in the measurement of time, dating methods, and the integration of chronological data into historical narratives, the new scheme proposed — reliable and easy to use — offers a shared standard for the entire corpus, which should prove equally valuable to other disciplines (geography, natural sciences, genetics) engaged in large-scale modeling.
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