TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seeliger, Martin
A1  - Pint, Anna
A1  - Frenzel, Peter
A1  - Weisenseel, Paula K.
A1  - Erkul, Ercan
A1  - Wilken, Dennis
A1  - Wunderlich, Tina
A1  - Başaran, Sait
A1  - Bücherl, Heike
A1  - Herbrecht, Marina
A1  - Rabbel, Wolfgang
A1  - Schmidts, Thomas
A1  - Szemkus, Nina
A1  - Brückner, Helmut
T1  - Using a multi-proxy approach to detect and date a buried part of the hellenistic city wall of Ainos (nw Turkey)
T2  - Geosciences
N2  - Throughout mankind’s history, the need to secure and protect the home settlement was an essential one. This holds especially true for the city of Ainos (modern Enez) in Turkish Thrace. Due to its continuous settlement history since the 7th/6th century BC, several different types of city walls were built—sometimes even on top of each other—several of which have been preserved over time. To decipher the construction style, the course and the age of a buried city wall segment in the southern part of the former city, a geoscientific multi-proxy approach including magnetic gradiometer (MG) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements in combination with granulometrical, sedimentological and microfaunistical investigations on sediment cores was applied. We were able to (1) present reasonable arguments for its Hellenistic age; (2) reveal the course of this wall segment and extrapolate it further north into a less studied area; and (3) demonstrate that in this near-coastal area, the former swampy terrain had been consolidated for constructing the wall. Our multi-proxy approach serves as a valuable example for investigating buried structures in archaeological contexts, avoiding a less-economical, time-consuming, or even forbidden excavation.
KW  - foraminifera
KW  - micropalaeontology
KW  - coastal geomorphology
KW  - geophysical prospections
KW  - magnetic gradiometry
KW  - electrical resistivity tomography
KW  - aegean
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51496
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514963
SN  - 2076-3263
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
VL  - 8
IS  - 10, Art. 357
SP  - 1
EP  - 17
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -