Open Access Monograph Series: Black Sea Studies

The Black Sea, known to the Greeks as Pontos Euxeinos or the "Hospitable Sea", is the focus of this series, which is concerned with ethnic relations, cultural interaction, and economic interdependence in the Black Sea region in the period c. 700 BC-AD 325, but with a main focus on the years ca. 400 BC-100 AD.

Although the Black Sea region is viewed as a whole, attention is concentrated on the north and south coasts of the Black Sea region, i.e. of modern Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.

Publications devote special attention to centre-periphery relations, to cultural interaction as an expression of ethnic and cultural strategies, and the analyses are based on a long-term view of the Black Sea region as a link between Asia and Europe.

All the articles in the books can be downloaded as read-only pdf-files.

• BSS 1: The Cauldron of Ariantas, Studies Presented to A.N. Sceglov on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
• BSS 2: Ancient Fishing and Fish Processing in the Black Sea Region
• BSS 3: Chronologies of the Black Sea Area in the Period C. 400-100 BC
• BSS 4: Surveying the Greek Chora. The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective
• BSS 5: Surveying the Greek Chora. The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective
• BSS 6: The Black Sea in Antiquity. Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges
• BSS 7: Urban life and local politics in Roman Bithynia. The small world of Dion Chrysostomos
• BSS 8: Meetings of Cultures – Between Conflicts and Coexistence
• BSS 9: Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom
• BSS 10: Die Einführung der Eisentechnologie in Südkaukasien und Ostanatolien während der Spätbronze- und Früheisenzeit
• BSS 11: Achaemenid Impact in the Black Sea. Communication of Powers
• BSS 12: Cultural Interactions and Social Strategies on the Pontic Shores. Burial Customs in the Northern Black Sea Area c. 550-270 BC
• BSS 13: The Lower City of Olbia (Sector NGS) in the 6th Century BC to the 4th Century AD, Vols. 1-2
• BSS 14: The Dzarylgaz Survey Project, Vols. 1-2
• BSS 16: Pottery, Peoples and Places. Study and Interpretations of Late Hellenistic Pottery