GAIA Prospection

Projects

The site consists of a 6 km long linear arrangement of barrows dating to the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC. In 2016 and 2019 we wanted to find evidence of activities contemporaneous with the construction of these mounds.

Tuna el-Gebel was the necropolis of Hermopolis Magna, and even more famous for the connected animal necropolis. Our aim, together with Jörg Fassbinder, was 2013 to find their village nearby the necropolis.

At this site we know archaeology from different periods, mainly from the Neolithic and Roman times. This was the perfect place to test different geophysical methods together with Archol, Eastern Atlas and the University of Ghent.

Meninx, in the southern part of Jerba, was an important Roman harbour and one of the largest production sites of purple dye in antiquity. Our aim, together with Jörg Fassbinder, was 2015 to map large parts of the city.

Tuna el-Gebel (Egypt)

Meninx (Tunisia)

Epe-Niersen (NL)

Lanakerveld (NL)

Publications

Publications on Academia

Publications on Researchgate

In 2021 we supported the team of Jörg Fassbinder to research the famous Annanauri kurgans in Georgia with ERT in the framework of a DAI project.

2010 - 2016 I did several measurements in the framework of my research about roman farms in the northwestern part of the Roman province Noricum in Bavaria. Result was that there was a very unique architectural form in this area.

The prospection work was done by Jörg Fassbinder in 2010. In 2020, GAIA was asked to analyse the data. The interpretation of data recorded near the magnetic equator presents a particular challenge, because the signal of the anomalies is totally different.

Since 2019 we are doing the interpretation of several ha of magnetic prospection from the capaigns of 2016 - 2019 in Charax Spasinou in Iraq. The project is a cooperation of the University of Konstanz and the University of Manchester (PI Stefan Hauser).