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members (K. C. Cooney, N. P. Özgüner, and N. P. Wolff), specialists (Dr. M. R.Besonen, Dr. D. J. Pullen, and C. A. Wait), E. Yılmaz, our Ministry of Culture andTourism Representative, and C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., director of the ArchaeologicalExploration of Sardis, and the Sardis team. For research permissions and generalassistance we are grateful to the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage andMuseums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, especially to M. Ayaz, A. Usta,and L. Vardar, and also to M. Tosunbaş, the director of the Manisa Museum, andher staff. For permissions and assistance relating to the Gygaean Lake work,we thank the General Directorate of Protection and Control of the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Affairs, and especially K. Özdemir and E. Mutlu of theManisa Agriculture Directorate, for their generous help and for the provision of theGediz I research vessel for preliminary work on the lake. Finally, we thank the localvillagers and farmers who offered access to fi elds in addition to their perspectivesabout the area. For further information about the project, please contact us atchr@bu.edu or cluke@bu.edu, and/or please visit our project website at http://people.bu.edu/chr/CLAS.316References CitedÇolak, M., and L. Lazzarini. 2002. Quarries and Characterisation of a HithertoUnknown Alabaster and Marble from Thyatira (Akhisar, Turkey). In ASMOSIAVI. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of The “Association forthe Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity,” Venice, June 15-18 2000,edited by L. Lazzarini, 35–40. Venice: Laboratorio di Analisi dei Materiali Antichi,Dipartimento di Storia dell’Architettura Istituto Universitario di Architettura diVenezia.Hakyemez, H. Y., T. Erkal, and F. Göktaş. 1999. Late Quaternary Evolution of theGediz and Büyük Menderes Grabens, Western Anatolia, Turkey. QuaternaryScience Reviews 18: 549–54.Lichter, C., ed. 2005a. How Did Farming Reach Europe? Anatolian–EuropeanRelations from the Second Half of the 7th through the First Half of the 6thMillennium CAL BC. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Istanbul, 20–22 May 2004. Byzas 2. İstanbul: Deutsches Archäologisches Institüt.