The archaeologic site of Tavium and its surroundings are located in the Yozgat province of Turkey. The archaeologically-interesting area is about 10 km² in size and encloses the village of Büyüknefes. Under this city which dates back to Roman and Byzantin times lies, according to the source and observations of the hellenistic suburb of Ostgalatiens, an important and central place of the early and middle Ice Ages called Anatolia. This central place is an important cult town of the Hittite empire and was an important centre during the early Bronze Age.

The i3Mainz supports this archeologic research with map portrayals of current topographic data in different scales. The new archeological findings will be successively incorporated into the digitally generated and stored database in compliance with the advancement of research work. An exact geodetic reference system was established for future archeological excavations using local GPS surveying. The entire area of interest will eventually be documented in a scale of 1:500.

Further work will be to generate high-quality digital three-dimensional situation models. From these models and appropriate software, statistical view perspectives, virtual fly-overs, terrain slices etc.can be constructed.

Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Müller