New archaeoseismology paper in Geoarchaeology

A new article on archaeoseismology appeared yesterday in Geoarchaeology’s Early View section. In this paper, Karabacak and colleagues present archaeoseismological evidence in the Roman stadium of ancient Kibyra (southwest Turkey). Earthquake archaeological damage includes surface faulting, systematically collapsed columns, dilated and collapsed walls, as well as rotated and displaced blocks. Their study suggests that a previously unknown seismic event (Io = VIII-IX) may have struck this region of Turkey around the 10-11 th century AD.

Reference

Karabacak, V., Önder, Y., Dökü, E., Kıyak, N.G., Altunel, E., Özüdoğru, Ş., Yalçıner, C.Ç. & Akyüz, H.S., 2013. Analyses of Seismic Deformation at the Kibyra Roman Stadium, Southwest Turkey. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 00 (2013) 1-13.

 

submit to reddit

Simon Jusseret

Simon Jusseret

is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and a member of the Aegean Interdisciplinary Studies research group at Universite catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

See all posts Simon Jusseret

No Comments

No comments yet.

Leave a Comment