Gallipoli Battlefield Survey – Read about Professor Tony Sagona’s archeological research

Professor Tony Sagona and a team of archeologists, historians, classicists, geographers and government officials from Australia, New Zealand and Turkey, have been surveying the Gallipoli battlefield. The materials being uncovered are building a more complete account of life in the trenches and how it may have varied at the front line across opposing sides of the conflict. Linking new with old data and documenting all the discoveries in the field is a key objective of the survey and also a major challenge. Digital mapping of physical location with the data as it is uncovered enables new details to emerge and confirm aspects of the battle.
Read about the battle, the story and the researchers in an article recently published in Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/american_military_history/2013/11/the_battle_of_gallipoli_winston_churchill_mustafa_kemal_and_the_battle_that.html

Professor Sagona and colleagues will also be publishing a book about the survey in August 2015 with Cambridge University Press.


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