July 8, 1998 We continued surveying of the hills overlooking the Akliman delta today. The team is working together on field analysis, and we are moving quickly. We documented a multi-period site today at Akdogan, near the village of Bostancili. We found Hellenistic (4th-1st c. BC), Byzantine (4th-12th c. AD) and Ottoman (15th-19th c. AD) pottery. Even though there was a dense scatter of pottery (about 18,000 sherds/ha) we only collected 12 pieces and recorded the rest of our sample with a digital camera.

Betul, Aysun, Aylin, Alex B. and Owen analyzing pottery at the end of a tract. if you're not already there, load the whole BlackSeaProject website