Download or read book The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Ceramic Sequence at Tell Fekheriye Syria written by Costanza Coppini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance and primary role of the site of Tell Fekheriye (Syria) has always been emphasized in the research history of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. As known from excavations and written sources, the site was an important centre in the Mittani and the Middle Assyrian periods. However, a systematic study and analysis of the pottery has never been accomplished, although the material offers a local and regional perspective on the ceramic production of a Late Bronze Age urban centre. This book fills this gap, offering an insight into the pottery from the site. The material provides a crucial set of data from Northern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on the Late Bronze Age, and in the phase of power alternation between the Mittani Kingdom and the Middle Assyrian state. This work illustrates the chrono-typological changes in the ceramic assemblages and provides an analysis of the functions related to the ceramic vessels, in context with other findings (sealings). In the end, the analysis of ceramic material as a starting point leads the reader to the investigation of topics related to society and social behaviours, economy, and political assets and administration in this urban centre for roughly 300 years of its history.

Download or read book The Late Third Millennium BCE in the Upper Orontes Valley Syria written by Melissa A. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation undertaken at The University of Sydney. It examines the florescene of urban society during the mid to late Third Millennium BCE in the northern Levant, focusing on the largely unexplored region of the upper Orontes Valley, specifically the site of Tell Nebi Mend, ancient Qadesh (on the Orontes). This work seeks to explore the role and significance of 'small' regional sites during the Early Bronze Age IV, by presenting a detailed stratigraphic and ceramic analysis of the Tell Nebi Mend sequence from the mid Third Millennium (Early Bronze Age III) through the early Second Millennium BCE (Middle Bronze Age I). One of the principal aims of this work is to construct a detailed ceramic typology for Tell Nebi Mend and the upper Orontes during the late Third Millennium BCE. This stratigraphically anchored assemblage was designed as a foil for the more intensively investigated 'mega-site' sequences of the region, such as Ebla and Hama. It was also designed to explore and examine the development and evolution of regional ceramic horizons and the growth of inter-site interaction that occurred during the later Early Bronze Age. Although this work will not be the last word on studies of the EB IV, the ceramic and stratigraphic information presented sheds new and important light on many of the key research issues that surround the Early Bronze Age IV, such as the nature of the Early Bronze Age III-IV transition and the regional response to the 'collapse' of the Early Bronze Age urban system ca. 2000 BCE.

Download or read book From Pottery to Chronology written by Adelheid Otto and published by Pewe-Verlag. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Cultural Continuity in Late Bronze early Iron Age Palestine Ceramic Typology and Settlement Patterns written by Ghassan Sa'id Nagagreh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of ceramics is one of the most important topics to understand the Bronze and Iron ages in Palestine, combined with settlement patterns, which both have helped and will help draw a chapter in the history of the region. To this end, the decision to study the pottery of tomb 1 at Tell Dothan was made to contribute to the debate over the archaeology of Canaan during the Late Bronze and the Iron Ages, Tell Dothan provides a very important and unique pottery collection which spans throughout the later phase of the Late Bronze and the beginning of the Iron Age with clear evidence of continuity of the pottery pattern, in addition to that, the Late Bronze Age in the highlands is a period believed to be poor and with very few sites, which requires investigating this assumption, for this reason, the study was conducted to examine the continuity in the pottery in the Late Bronze Age with its collapse as well as during the dawn of the subsequent Age. Studying the pottery of Tell Dothan will contribute to the understanding of two histro-archaeological issues; the Tell Dothan tomb 1 unique pottery collection and on the other hand, the Late Bronze, Iron age and the transition in the highlands as well as, the region Canaan in general. Throughout this study, I try to join archaeology and/ with a historical reflection.

Download or read book Ceramics in Transitions written by Karen Sydney Rubinson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a workshop held at Barnard College, Columbia University, in December 2003.

Download or read book Aspects of Early Bronze and Late Iron Age Ceramic Technology at Tell El Umeiri written by Gloria L. London and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shechem V written by Catherine Duff and published by American Society of Overseas Research. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substantial ceramic and architectural remains attributable to the Late Bronze Age were excavated in Field XIII in 1968 by the Drew-McCormick Expedition. The Late Bronze Age sequence spanning the Late Bronze I, IIA, and IIB contains ceramics from occupational contexts and also from a cache of 850 restorable and complete vessels from a Basement Chamber sealed below destruction debris. This analysis provides data on the ceramic typological development and the technological processes or chaine operatoire at a Northern Hill Country site. While mostly domestic in nature, the ceramic assemblage also comprises imported Cypriot White Slip and Base Ring Wares that place the territorial kingdom, governed by the ambitious ruler Lab'ayu, within a wider regional trade system encompassing the Dothan-Jezreel and Beth Shean Valley routes. The findings from this investigation align with recent scholarship that shows the early Late Bronze I was defined by contracted settlement over a protracted period of time, in contrast to the architectural and ceramic complexity exhibited in the Late Bronze IIA, and to a limited extent in the Late Bronze IIB. This report continues the effort to publish the excavation findings from ten seasons of excavations spanning 1957 to 1972 and originally led by Expedition Director G. Ernest Wright.

Download or read book The Cypro Phoenician Pottery of the Iron Age written by Nicola Schreiber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study of Cypro-Phoenician (or Black-on-Red) pottery provides a fresh assessment of Iron Age East Mediterranean chronology, investigates the relative roles of Cyprus and Phoenicia in trade to the Aegean, and explores the ancient trade in perfumed oil.

Download or read book Iron Age Pottery in Northern Mesopotamia Northern Syria and South eastern Anatolia written by Arnulf Hausleiter and published by Ugarit Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bronze Age in the Lebanon written by Manfred Bietak and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a selection of studies on the archaeology and chronology of Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Scholarly articles present both new data and its interpretation, and a re-analysis and synthesis of already existing data, ranging from the Early Bronze Age through the beginning of the Late Bronze Age.

Download or read book Archaeological Explorations in Syria 2000 2011 written by Jeanine Abdul Massih and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syria has been a major crossroads of civilizations in the ancient Near East since the dawn of human kind. This volume brings together scholars involved in archaeological activities in Syria and focusses on the scientific aspects of each explored site, allowing researchers to examine in detail each heritage site, its characteristics and identity.

Download or read book Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context written by Erin D. Darby and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions. While giving priority to figurines originating from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, the volume explores the influences of Egyptian, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Mediterranean (particularly Cypriot) iconography on Levantine pictorial material.

Download or read book Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye Syria written by Dominik Bonatz and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is dedicated to the ancient site of Tell Fekheriye in Syria which is believed to have played a central role in the political and cultural history of the region during mainly the Late Bronze Age and later the Roman-Byzantine periods. In fact, the excavations exposed impressive architectural remains and finds from the period when the site was under the hegemony of first the Mittani and then the Middle Assyrian state (ca. 1500-1100 BC).

Download or read book Sarepta The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age strata of area II Y written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Typology of the Late Bronze II and Early Iron Age Pottery from Tel Ein Zippori Galilee written by John S. Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant written by Graham Philip and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out the primary issues and current debates in the use of ceramics to reconstruct and explain cultural economic and social processes in the Early Bronze age. By bringing together research on pottery from various parts of the southern Levant, it allows direct comparison of contemporary material from different regions. Alongside these empirical studies are discussions of general ceramic issues, so that the book highlights the potential of pottery as an investigative tool, and indicates fruitful directions for future research within the traditionally conservative field of Levantine archaeology.

Download or read book Plain and Painted Pottery written by Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on a major issue in Near Eastern prehistoric archaeology: the rise of the Halaf culture, ca. 5900 - 5400 cal. BC. The book presents in a detailed, quantified and lavishly illustrated manner the ceramics excavated by the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden at Tell Sabi Abyad, northern Syria. Concentrating on the 1996 - 2000 campaigns, the book also synthesizes much earlier work in order to come to a comprehensive overview. Tell Sabi Abyad thus far remains the only archaeological site in the Near East where the shift from a Pre-Halaf to an Early Halaf cultural assemblage can be followed within a continuous, meticulously stratified sequence. This shift occured during a short-lived transitional stage, radiocarbon dated at 6100-5900 cal. BC, In terms of the ceramics, this transition is characterized by the gradual replacement of plain Coarse Ware by intricately painted Fine Wares, and by numerous innovations in ceramic technology, morphology and decorative style. More than merely a pottery report, the book offers a lively discussion of past and present views on the origins of the Halaf culture. It also places the excavated ceramics in the broader socio-economic and symbolic context of Late Neolithic societies in northern Syria. Using the concepts of feasting and emulation, the study aims to gain insight in patterns of rapid ceramic innovation and change. The book is of interest not only to specialists of prehistoric pottery but to a wider archaeological audience as well.