The Archaeology of Midas and the Phrygians: Recent Work At Gordion

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1 Recent Work at Gordion Lisa Kealhofer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I EXCAVATIONS, HISTORY, AND DATING AT GORDION 2 Gordion: Exploration over a Century G. Kenneth Sams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 Old Problems and New Solutions: Recent Excavations at Gordion Mary Voigt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4 Greek Pottery and Gordion Chronology Keith DeVries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Reconstructing the Roman-period Town at Gordion Andrew Goldman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 II INTERPRETING THE FINDS FROM GORDION 6 Textile Production at Gordion and the Phrygian Economy Brendan Burke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 7 A Decorated Roof at Gordion: What Tiles Are Revealing about the Phrygian Past Matt Glendinning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 8 Glass Vessels from Gordion: Trade and Influence Along the Royal Road Janet Duncan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 9 A Preliminary Report on the Human Skeletal Material from Gordion’s Lower Town Area Page Selinsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 10 The Local Potter’s Craft at Phrygian Gordion Robert C. Henrickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 III GORDION IN ITS REGIONAL CONTEXT 11 Settlement and Land Use: The Gordion Regional Survey Lisa Kealhofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 12 Ceramic Compositional Analysis and the Phrygian Sanctuary at Dümrek Peter Grave, Lisa Kealhofer, and Ben Marsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 13 Physical Geography, Land Use, and Human Impact at Gordion Ben Marsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 14 Ethnographic Lessons for Past Agro-Pastoral Systems in the Sakarya-Porsuk Valleys Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 CONTENTS vi IV CONSERVING GORDION AND ITS ARTIFACTS 15 Support and Conserve: Conservation and Environmental Monitoring of the Tomb Chamber of Tumulus MM Richard F. Liebhart and Jessica S. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 16 Recent Conservation Research: Soluble Salts in Gordion Ceramics Julie Unruh and Jessica S. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 17 Architectural Conservation at Gordion Mark Goodman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 CONTENTS ...