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This volume is the result of an "International Workshop on the Chronology of the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th Century BC) in Northern Syria (Upper Syrian Euphrates Area): Emar, Tall al-Qitar, Tall Munbaqa, Umm el-Marra and Tall Bazi". It took place on May 5-7, 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz. The need for the workshop was felt by the excavators of the mentioned sites, because a considerable number of LBA sites has been investigated in the Upper Euphrates area by now, but the relative and absolute chronology of most sites is still a matter of debate. The workshop in Mainz tried to tackle the problem of the dating of the Late Bronze Age of the Upper Syrian Euphrates region with the most simple and obvious method. The excavators and pottery specialists of the relevant sites were for the first time brought together. Each team was asked to present its stratified ceramic material and to explain their methods of dating: had the pottery sequence been dated by parallel with another settlement? If so, with which settlement? Or had the stratified material been dated by internal criteria, by written documents or by other well datable objects such as seals, tools and weapons, imported pottery or others? Or had it been dated by radiocarbon or other scientific analyses? The defined aim, which was circulated among the participants in advance, was "By putting together and by comparing the relevant stratified material, it should be possible to discern the consistencies and differences within the material and the reasons for them." It was hoped that the date of the relevant levels and of the various destructions would become evident, when the reliability of the dating of the 'Tablet Building' at Hadidi to the 15th century was questioned and when each mission laid open its own dating methods, thereby avoiding the circularity of assumptions that had hitherto prevailed. This was not only achieved, but it was also able to establish new chronological anchor points for the Upper Euphrates valley.
The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions. Yet, their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products of craft specialists, the result of high-volume production, and therefore important in understanding the social systems in early complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars understand cross-regional similarities in development and use.
A fitting tribute to the life and achievements of Donald P. Hansen, this collection includes contributions by Z. Bahrani, R. A. Fazzini, R. E. Freed, P. O. Harper, J. and D. Oates, D. O'Connor, E. L. Ochsenschlager, E. Holmes-Peck, W. H. Peck, H. Pittman, M. Van de Mieroop, M. S. Venit, K. Wilson, I. J. Winter, and many others.
Consists of 20 chapters in 2 parts; pt. 1 contains chapters on Aegean prehistory and the East and pt. 2 contains chapters on classical Greece, Etruria, and Rome.
This title provides comprehensive overviews on archaeological philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century.
Raccolta di articoli in onore di Marcella Frangipane riguardo il sito archeologico Arslantepe, in Antaolia orientale
This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators of some of the earliest farming and urban communities known to us, these people were among the first pioneers of many crafts and skills that remain fundamental to modern ways of life. Many of the raw materials for crafts had to be imported from outside the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, providing an unusually sensitive indicator of the commercial and cultural contacts of Mesopotamia. In this book, Dr. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and then goes on to examine in detail the material evidence for a wide range of crafts using stones, both common and ornamental, animal products--from hippopotamus ivory to ostrich egg-shells--ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialist historians of the ancient Near East.
The aim of Woolley's excavations at Tell Atchana was to trace the cultural interconnections between the Minoan civilisation and the Near East, and the site itself presented a midway point on one of the principle trade routes of the Mediterranean in the Amuq Valley.
Contents: Tepe Chenchi: An Important Settlement Near Khorsabad ( G. Algaze ); Re-Examination of a Cult-and-Art Object from Beth Yerah ( R. Amiran ); Notes on the Style and Iconography of the Chalcolithic Hoard from Nahal Mishmar ( P. Beck ); A Recut Old Babylonian Seal with a Sumerian Prayer of the Kassite Period ( R. D. Biggs ); Comments on Small Finds and Items of Artistic Significance from Tell Hadidi and Nearby Sites in the Euphrates Valley, Syria ( R. H. Dornemann ); Village Potters in Early Bronze Age Palestine: A Case Study ( D. Esse ); Damonen ohne Stammbaum: Zu einigen mesopotamischen Amuletten aus dem Kunsthandel ( W. Farber ); Hittite kursa 'Hunting Bag' ( H. G. Gueterbock ); God or Worshipper ( Th. Jacobsen ); A Royal Head from Luxor ( J. H. Johnson and D. Whitcomb ); A New Third Millennium Sculpture from Mozan ( M. Kelly-Buccellati ); An Early Industrial Proto-Urban Center on the Central Plateau of Iran: Tepe Ghabristan ( Y. Majidzadeh ); A Monster Mirrored ( H. P. Martin ); The Chronology and Ceramic Assemblages of Alalakh ( T. L. McClellan ); Crown Window Panes: Constantinian or Justinian? ( C. Meyer ); Mosaic, Glass, and Frit Vessels from Marlik ( E. O. Negahban ); Problems of Late Assyrian Reliefs ( E. Porada ); The Judean Desert Treasure from Nahal Mishmar: A Chalcolithic Traders' Hoard? ( M. Tadmor ); Urartian Bronzes Formerly in the Oriental Institute Museum ( M. van Loon ); Carved Bones from Corinth ( E. Vermeule ); Some Foreign Personal Names and Loan-Words from the Deir el-Medineh Ostraca ( W. A. Ward ); An Early Pottery Jar with Incised Decoration from Egypt ( B. B. Williams ); North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact of Luxury Goods upon 'Major' Arts ( I. J. Winter ); Ancient Egypt and the Red Sea Trade: The Case for Obsidian in the Predynastic and Archaic Periods ( J. Zarins ); Pottery Profiles Reconstructed from Jar Sealings in the Lower Seal Impression Strata ( SIS 8-4 ) at Ur: New Evidence for Dating ( R. L. Zettler ).