Download or read book The Archaeology of the Frontier in the Medieval Near East written by Scott Redford and published by Archaeological Institute of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavations that begain in 1981 in Gritille, Turkey, were in search of Bronze and Iron Age material but, instead, archaeologists discovered important evidence for the medieval boundary between Islam and Christianity.