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Meet Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, Assistant Director of the Gordion Project
By: Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann
In 1995 I joined the Gordion Archaeological Project to study the socio-economic structure of the traditional villages in the region. The ultimate goal was to inform the ancient economic practices of the Phrygian kingdom, using the method of ethnographic analogy from the nearby contemporary villages, to help interpret the archaeological evidence. The ancient economy was […]