John Haldon (seated), a professor of history, consults a map of
the Avkat Project in Turkey with Zachary Chitwood, a doctoral
candidate in history. Both Haldon and Chitwood will be returning
to Turkey this summer for the second year of the field survey.
(Photo: Brian Wilson) Project goes high-tech to unearth ancient
history Posted May 7, 2008; 04:51 p.m. From the April 28, 2008,
Princeton Weekly Bulletin There is a small hill in a remote part
of Turkey that looms large in the mind of John Haldon, a
professor of history at Princeton. It likely is the ruin of an
ancient fortress, but for Haldon the site is an inspiration to
find new ways to unearth the history of a particular landscape.
A specialist in Byzantine history, Haldon is the director of an
archaeological and historical survey project based around the
modern village of Beyözü in the north-central Anatolian region
of Turkey. The site, originally known as Euchaita, then Avkat in
Ottoman times, is a prime example of a provincial setting in
Asia Minor. By