[First posted 7/13/09, updated 4 October 2013]
The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies
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The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies
Paper publications
The Centre publishes four series: two conference and monograph series, one international (Black Sea Studies [BSS]) and one Danish series (Sortehavsstudier [SHS]) and two topographical series in English, Panskoe Iand Olbia NGS. In BSS the results of the international conferences as well as the results of the individual research projects are disseminated, and in SHS the results of the yearly seminar held in Danish and aimed at a broader audience are published. In the two monograph series the results of the two collaborative projects Panskoe I (RA 3A) and Olbia NGS (RA 3B) are published.Netpublications
All the Centre’s products are published on the homepage. This includes any product from conference abstracts, over manuscripts for oral papers to pdf files of the Centre’s printed publications.Index of authors in Black Sea Studies and Sortehavsstudier
The Centre for Black Sea Studies currently publishes three seriesBlack Sea Studies
Conference proceedings and monographs in English
BSS 1
BSS 2
BSS 3
BSS 4
BSS 5
BSS 6
BSS 7
BSS 8
BSS 9
BSS 10
Sortehavsstudier
BSS 11
BSS 12
BSS 13
BSS 14
Popularising series in Danish
Panskoye I
Results from the excavation of Panskoye I on western Crimea
Panskoye I, Vol. 1
Articles by the Black Sea Centre
Other Resources:
- Gazetteer of Sites in the Black Sea Region. The Centre aims to construct a gazetteer with information on all relevant ancient sites in the Black Sea region, which may serve as a common source to all researchers in the zone. The Centre continuously adds information to the data base. The main focus lies on references in literary sources, coinage, site photos, bibliographies, and to some extent GPS-pos
- Coin Database. The Centre has, in collaboration with The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals in Copenhagen, created an electronic inventory of all the coins from the Black Sea area in Danish collections with high quality images which can be searched through the internet.
- In 2005 Niels Chr. Nielsen from University of Southern Denmark created a digital terrain model of the entire Black Sea area based on data made available by the American National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. The cell size in the model is 50 m. On the basis of this, contours with equidistance of 25 meters have been extracted