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In this episode, BIAA Director Dr Lutgarde Vandeput and Dr Işılay Gürsu are hosted by Dr Peter Cherry to discuss the archaeological heritage of Pisidia, an ancient region located in Southwest Türkiye. The BIAA has conducted several projects to understand the ancient past of the region, such as the Pisidia Survey Project. A long distance hiking trail, the Pisidia Heritage Trail, was created to promote this beautiful region to wider audiences and to create social and economic benefits for its residents.
You can order a copy of the Pisidia Heritage Trail guidebook, in English or Turkish, via the BIAA’s website: biaa.ac.uk/publication/pisidia-heritage-trail-guidebook
Learn more about the Pisidia Heritage Trail: biaa.ac.uk/research/pisidia-heritage-trail
Resources:
Works Cited in the Podcast
- Işılay Gürsu, Pisidia Heritage Trail: Hiking Through the Ancient Sites and Highlands of the Western Taurus Mountains, Turkey. BIAA Publications, 2022. biaa.ac.uk/publication/pisidia-heritage-trail-guidebook/.
Additional Readings
- Lutgarde Vandeput, The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor, Sagalassos: A Case Study, Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology 1, Leuven, 1997.
- Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse, “The 1999 Pisidia Survey at Melli”, Anatolian Studies 51, 2001: 133 – 145.
- Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse, “Survey in the Taurus Mountains: Methodologies of the Pisidia Survey Project. In Late Antique Archaeology 9: Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology, ed. L. Lavan and M. Mulryan, 2012: 205 – 245.
- Stephen Mitchell, Cremna in Pisidia: An Ancient City in Peace and in War. London: Duckworth / The Classical Press of Wales, 1995.
- Stephen Mitchell, “The Pisidian Survey.” In Ancient Anatolia: Fifty Years’ Work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, ed. R. Matthews, London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1998: 237 – 254.
- Stephen Mitchell and Marc Waelkens, Pisidian Antioch: The Site and its Monuments. London: Duckworth / The Classical Press of Wales, 1998.
- Stephen Mitchell and Lutgarde Vandeput, “Sagalassos and the Pisidia’s Project: In Search of Pisidia’s History”. In Exempli Gratia. Sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and Interdisciplinary Archaeology, ed. J. Poblome, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013: 97 – 118.
In this episode, BIAA Director Dr Lutgarde Vandeput and Dr Işılay Gürsu are hosted by Dr Peter Cherry to discuss the archaeological heritage of Pisidia, an ancient region located in Southwest Türkiye. The BIAA has conducted several projects to understand the ancient past of the region, such as the Pisidia Survey Project. A long distance hiking trail, the Pisidia Heritage Trail, was created to promote this beautiful region to wider audiences and to create social and economic benefits for its residents.
You can order a copy of the Pisidia Heritage Trail guidebook, in English or Turkish, via the BIAA’s website: biaa.ac.uk/publication/pisidia-heritage-trail-guidebook
Learn more about the Pisidia Heritage Trail: biaa.ac.uk/research/pisidia-heritage-trail
Resources:
Works Cited in the Podcast
- Işılay Gürsu, Pisidia Heritage Trail: Hiking Through the Ancient Sites and Highlands of the Western Taurus Mountains, Turkey. BIAA Publications, 2022. biaa.ac.uk/publication/pisidia-heritage-trail-guidebook/.
Additional Readings
- Lutgarde Vandeput, The Architectural Decoration in Roman Asia Minor, Sagalassos: A Case Study, Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology 1, Leuven, 1997.
- Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse, “The 1999 Pisidia Survey at Melli”, Anatolian Studies 51, 2001: 133 – 145.
- Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse, “Survey in the Taurus Mountains: Methodologies of the Pisidia Survey Project. In Late Antique Archaeology 9: Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology, ed. L. Lavan and M. Mulryan, 2012: 205 – 245.
- Stephen Mitchell, Cremna in Pisidia: An Ancient City in Peace and in War. London: Duckworth / The Classical Press of Wales, 1995.
- Stephen Mitchell, “The Pisidian Survey.” In Ancient Anatolia: Fifty Years’ Work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, ed. R. Matthews, London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1998: 237 – 254.
- Stephen Mitchell and Marc Waelkens, Pisidian Antioch: The Site and its Monuments. London: Duckworth / The Classical Press of Wales, 1998.
- Stephen Mitchell and Lutgarde Vandeput, “Sagalassos and the Pisidia’s Project: In Search of Pisidia’s History”. In Exempli Gratia. Sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and Interdisciplinary Archaeology, ed. J. Poblome, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013: 97 – 118.
