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Location of the Battle of Gaugamela in the Light of Multidisciplinary Research

2017/26/M/HS3/00750

Keywords:

Gaugamela Alexander the Great Persia

Descriptors:

  • HS3_1: Early history (ancient, medieval, early modern history), modern and contemporary history (19th - 20th c.)
  • HS3_8: Archaeology (incl. archaeology of Greece and Rome, archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, archaeology of Near East, archeology of the New World, pre- and protohistorical archaeology, archaeology of early medieval period, medieval archeology, archeology of modern period)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Historyczny

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Michał Marciak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 7

Call: HARMONIA 9 - announced on 2017-06-14

Amount awarded: 301 473 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-04-17

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-12-16

Project duration:: 56 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. Alexander the Great in Mesopotamia in 331 BCE
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Marcin Sobiech, Tomasz Pirowski
    Academic press:
    Antichthon (rok: 2022, tom: 56, strony: 77–104), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/ann.2022.11 - link to the publication
  2. The Battle of Gaugamela in the Navkur Plain in the Context of the Macedonian and Persian Art of Warfare
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Robert Wójcikowski, Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Marcin Sobiech
    Academic press:
    Studia Iranica (rok: 2021, tom: 50, strony: 25020), Wydawca: Peeters
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2143/SI.50.1.3291169 - link to the publication
  3. Gaugamela in the Plains of Nineveh? The Southern Location of the Battle of Gaugamela Reconsidered
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Piotr Głogowski, Bartłomiej Szypuła, Tomasz Pirowski, Giovanni Gomiero
    Academic press:
    Anabasis: Studia Classica et Orientalia (rok: 2020, tom: 11, strony: 0), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  4. The Battle of Gaugamela and the Question of Visibility on the Battlefield
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Bartłomiej Szypuła, Marcin Sobiech, Tomasz Pirowski
    Academic press:
    Iraq (rok: 2021, tom: 83, strony: 87-103), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/irq.2021.11 - link to the publication
  5. In Search of the Plains of Gaugamela
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Bartłomiej Szypuła, Piotr Głogowski
    Academic press:
    Iranica Antiqua (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Peeters
    Status:
    Submitted
  6. Alexander the Great's Route to Gaugamela and Arbela
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Marcin Sobiech, Tomasz Pirowski
    Academic press:
    Klio: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte (rok: 2020, tom: 102, strony: 536–559), Wydawca: De Gruyter
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/klio-2020-2024 - link to the publication
  7. Interpretation of multispectral satellite data as a tool for detecting archaeological artifacts (Navkur Plain and Karamleis Plain, Iraq)
    Authors:
    Tomasz Pirowski, Bartłomiej Szypuła, Michał Marciak
    Academic press:
    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 0,698611111111111, strony: 45317), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s12520-022-01637-9 - link to the publication
  8. Potentialities and Limitations of Research on VHRS Data: Alexander the Great's Military Camp at Gaugamela on the Navkur Plain in Kurdish Iraq as a Test Case
    Authors:
    Tomasz Pirowski, Michał Marciak, Marcin Sobiech
    Academic press:
    Remote Sensing (rok: 2021, tom: 13(5), strony: 11689), Wydawca: MDI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/rs13050904 - link to the publication
  1. Alexander the Great and the Campaign of Gaugamela: New Research on Topography and Chronology
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak
    Book:
    M. Marciak, Alexander the Great and the Campaign of Gaugamela: New Research on Topography and Chronology , Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Submitted
  2. The Battle of Gaugamela in the Navkur Plain
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak
    Book:
    D. Morandi Bonacossi and C. Tonghini (eds.), The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project. Settlement Patterns, Land Use and Material Culture in the North-Western Region of Iraqi Kurdistan from the Post-Assyrian to the Islamic Periods. Italian Archaeological Mission to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq 4 (rok: 2023, tom: 4, strony: 45295), Wydawca: Forum Editrice
    Status:
    Submitted
  3. The Location of the Gaugamela Battlefield Reconsidered
    Authors:
    Michał Marciak, Bartłomiej Szypuła
    Book:
    M. Blömer, M. Marciak, T. Schreiber (eds.), Trans-regional Encounters. Kingdoms and principalities of the Taurus, Zagros, and Caucasus regions between 300 BCE and 200 CE (rok: 2023, ), Wydawca: Harrassowitz
    Status:
    Submitted