Hacımusalar Project Regional Survey

Information

Pedar W. Foss, DePauw University

The Hacımusalar Project Regional Survey, in the uplands of the Elmalı Basin and in the region of ancient Lycia, Turkey, began in 1992 by Prof. Dr. Ilknur Özgen of Bilkent University. Starting in 1996, American-Turkish cooperation emerged under the leadership of Prof. Özgen and Prof. Mark B. Garrison of Trinity University (San Antonio TX) through the especial assistance of the Associated Colleges of the South. In 1997 Prof. Pedar Foss, currently of the Dept. of Classical Studies at DePauw University, joined the project, and began to direct a new phase of the regional survey. Fieldwork represented by this page continued through the 2005 season.

This brief page collects a few key resources related to that survey until ongoing issues related to publication and future fieldwork are resolved. It makes available only resources previously put online or presented at professional conferences and therefore exposed to the public domain. The materials do not constitute final publication in any way, but do summarize the progress of the survey's methods and results to date.

• GoogleEarth .kmz file zooming to the area of the Hacımusalar Survey, and featuring excellent satellite photography originally taken by order for the project in August 2005, and now made public by DigitalGlobe. [Clicking on the link may download to your computer a file called 'doc.kml'. If you have GoogleEarth installed on your computer, opening that file will take you immediately to the Elmalı Basin.]
• http://www.choma.org/ (Choma - the main project website; while in transition to a new server, it may be unavailable)
• http://homepage.mac.com/pfoss/HS/HS00_Manual.pdf (The Hacımusalar Survey Manual, which details the methodology of the survey. Also located at the Choma website. Date: 7 August 2000)
• “The Hacımusalar Survey (Elmalı Basin, southwest Turkey), 1997-2000” http://homepage.mac.com/pfoss/HS/AIA2001/index.html (Poster presented at AIA Annual Meeting in San Diego. Five pdf files. Date: 3 January 2001)
• “The Hacımusalar Project: the field survey” http://homepage.mac.com/pfoss/HS/HS01webreport/survey.html (Interim Report. Also located on the Choma site. Date: 7 October 2001)
• “The Hacımusalar Project Regional Survey: landscape and settlement investigations in the Elmalı Basin,” http://homepage.mac.com/pfoss/HS/Lykia/index.html (Paper written to accompany a poster presented at the IIIrd International Symposium on Lycia in Antalya, 7-10 November 2005. Five pdf files [one text, four illustrations]. Date: 9 January 2006)

N.B. The fieldwork was the effort of many dedicated individuals (named in the documents as appropriate). P. Foss, however, takes sole responsibility for making this website available. He does so towards the discharge of his professional responsibility to share preliminary results of this work, and here (again, the disclaimer), only work that has been previously made public.

You may contact him at: pfoss@depauw.edu

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Date of this document: 4 January 2007