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<< News >> Volunteer archaeologists discover Turkey's caves

Submitted by coldrum on Saturday, 03 February 2007  Page Views: 2656

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Volunteer archeologists working to preserve Turkey's caves and archeological sites have turned United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) heads with their comprehensive bilingual online inventory, which publicizes information on Turkish archeological sites covering the Stone Age to the Bronze Age.

In an effort to create a chronological inventory of Turkey's cultural assets, Oğuz Tanındı, professor of prehistory at Istanbul University's department of Archeology, established The Archeological Settlements of Turkey (TAY) in 1993.

Tanındı, now TAY's project coordinator, said that Turkey's vast archeological sites are unprotected and in serious danger. The project carried out by his team of volunteer archeologists intends to reclaim archeological sites, and more recently caves, by drawing up an inventory and sharing this information with the international community and Turkish public.

“All cultural assets within the borders of our country are a collective heritage for mankind and we have to claim them in this sense,” Tanındı told the Turkish Daily News. “Starting in 2000 our land survey team traveled throughout Anatolia and Thrace covering 92,000 kilometers in five years,” Tanındı said. The volunteers took the coordinates of archeological sites, prepared reports, took photos and filmed hundreds of sites.

TAY's newest project has uncovered 2,327 caves throughout Turkey. The findings are available online and can be updated by visitors to the site, as only 467 of those caves have substantial data. In every separate card there is the information of the name, height, width, depth, region, province, town and location of the cave.

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Re: Volunteer archaeologists discover Turkey's caves by davidmorgan on Sunday, 04 February 2007
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The TAY project's desctruction list is depressing.
http://www.tayproject.org/enghome.html
Unfortunately Beycesultan is included.
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