[Discussion] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS- Summer 2005 Excavations in Arkhangai and Bulgan Aimaqs

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS- Summer 2005 Excavations in Arkhangai and Bulgan
Aimaqs

For the summer of 2005, the Silk Road Foundation, in conjunction with
the Department of Archaeology at the Mongolian National University, will
be sponsoring excavation and survey in Arkhangai and Bulgan aimaqs,
Mongolia. You are invited to join in the first season of this
collaborative project.

The field directors for this project are Dr. Mark Hall (Archaeological
Research Facility, UC Berkeley) and Dr. Zagd Batsaihan (Department of
Archaeology, Mongolian National University).  Dr. Hall has excavated in
Bulgan aimaq in 1996 and 1998, while Dr. Batsaihan has worked in these
aimaqs since the early 1990s.

Part of the field season will be spent excavating at Tamaryn Ulaan
Khoshuu, a Xiong-nu cemetery containing over 300 burials and a series of
banked and ditched enclosures believed to date to the Xiong-nu era.  The
other part of the field season will be spent doing survey and test
excavations of Bronze Age and later period sites and monuments.

For more information, please go to:
http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/excavation/excavation.html

On-line applications will be accepted from November 23rd 2004 - March
15th 2005

Questions?  Contact Dr. Hall at mhall#berkeley.edu or mhall940#yahoo.com


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