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Hans-Georg Stephan

Stephan's areas of specialization include interdisciplinary archaeological research in the first and second millennia A.D., medieval settlement and landscape archaeology, urban topography and architectural history, renaissance material culture (especially ceramics, glass, and oven tiles), economic history (especially pottery, metallurgy and glass production), and archaeometry.

Wich town

In Anglo-Saxon England the "-wich towns" designated by the suffix -wic identified coastal trading settlements, equivalents of emporia, provisioned from outside the protected community and characterised by extensive artisanal activity and imports, which have left material traces in excavations.


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Alexander Soros

He is the son of hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros and Susan Weber Soros, the founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) for studies in the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture affiliated with Bard College.

Sakçagözü

Located 3 km to the North is the archaeological site of Coba Höyük, which contains Pottery Neolithic, Halaf, Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic/Uruk and Neo-Hittite material culture.

Samarra culture

Samarran material culture was first recognized during excavations by German Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld at the site of Samarra.

Tangam language

Most Tangam are hill tribespeople, with a material culture that is similar to that of most Tani peoples of the Siang River valley.