The Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP) is a long-term, international, multi-disciplinary project exploring the landscape archaeology and palaeo-ecology of the upper and middle Tundzha (Tonzos) river valley from the Kazanluk region in the northwest through the Yambol region in the southeast.
TRAP uses a range of approaches to explore the ancient landscape of our region, emphasising:
For more information, contact us; if you are a student interested in developing expertise in any of these fields, consider volunteering.
While the details have not yet been worked out, we will return to Bulgaria in October-November 2011 for another field seasion. Watch this space!
Join us! We are currently taking volunteers for Fall 2011 fieldwork.
The fall season of visiting and registering legacy sites and excavation finished in mid-December! Activities centred on the Thracian (?) - Late Roman fortified settlement of Dodoparon, near the village of Golyam Manastir in the Elhovo district of the Yambol region.
Surface survey and satellite remote sensing planned for the Kazanluk region was completed on 11 April 2010. Finds processing, total pick ups and follow-up environmental analyses have followed.
Study area: in 17 days of fieldwork we covered some 30 sq km in two transects stretching from the Koprinka reservoir to the Haemus / Stara Planina foothills.