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Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 2)
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered. So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la mission archéologique franco-syrienne d’Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010. Première partie.
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered.So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la mission archéologique franco-syrienne d’Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010. Première partie.
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered.So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 2)
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered. So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 2)
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered. So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 2)
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered. So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission archéologique franco syrienne d'Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010 (Part 2)
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered. So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la mission archéologique franco-syrienne d’Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010. Première partie.
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered.So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la mission archéologique franco-syrienne d’Al-Rawda, travaux 2007-2010. Première partie.
No full textInternational audienceThis article, presented in two parts, deals with the excavations and the pluridisciplinary studies conducted at Tell Al-Rawda (Central-Western Syria, Early Bronze IV) and in its surroundings between 2007 and 2010. The excavation of the main sanctuary of the city (a temple in antis, a smaller temple and the partially constructed sacred precinct) has been completed for the last level of occupation (about 2200 BC). A new program has been developed in 2009-2010 especially based on in-depth exploration of the archaeological levels. It shows that the radio-concentric plan of the city goes back to the beginning of the urban foundation, about 2500 BC. Outside of the fortification system, to the east, a small quarter of byzantine houses has been discovered. The studied region around Tell Al-Rawda has been enlarged and includes the “Very Long Wall” which is 220 km long and situated 10 km to the East of the city of Al-Rawda. New methods of investigation have been tried, including some particularly promising as new techniques of magnetic surveys, with measurements of higher resolution than we had previously used, and geoarchaeological analyzes which have confirmed the pastoral use of most of the stone circles and, at least approximately, their age. A defense system based on a network of EB IV towers has been identified as well as new EB IVB habitation sites. Tell Al-Rawda which is certainly connected to the “Very Long Wall” appears to be a “central place” in the region. Furthermore a new EB IVB roughly circular city surrounded by a double rempart, Khirbet el Qasr, 36,7 km NW of Al-Rawda, has been discovered.So the arid steppe of Syria was widely occupied in Early Bronze IV by a network of villages inhabited by semi-nomads and by sedentary populations, but also by a network of cities that were inhabited year-round. Some of these cities at least, like Tell Al-Rawda, Tell Sha’irat and probably Khirbet el Qasr are fortified, circular and organised around a radioconcentric streets network. They reveal the existence of a true “urban model” attested in Central-Western Syria as soon as 2500 B.C.Cet article, présenté en deux parties, présente les fouilles et les études pluridisciplinaires menées à Tell Al-Rawda (Centre-ouest de la Syrie, Bronze ancien IV) et dans ses environs entre 2007 et 2010
Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la mission archéologique franco-syrienne dans la micro-région d'Al-Rawda (Shamiyeh) : quatrième et cinquième campagnes (2005 et 2006)
No full textInternational audienceThis preliminary report presents the results of two campaigns of excavation and survey in 2005 and 2006 on the site of AI-Rawda (West-Central Syria) and in the micro-region of 100 km2 around it. The site is a pre-planned circular new town. It was founded around 2400 BCE, in the steppe zone and was inhabited only during EB IV, until the end of the 3rd millennium. The work of 2005 and 2006 involved further extensive excavation of a sanctuary consisting of two temples and a temenos togeiher with aIl associated installations (including a betyl in situ). The eastem gate of the town was excavated and four lines of defence have been identified. A stratigraphie sounding in the southwest clarifies the origin of the town. In the necropolis associated with the site, the excavation of a collective pit burial is presented. Intensive survey was continued outside the ancient town, with particular attention to sites that were occupied at the same time as AI-Rawda, to burials, which have been classified by type, and to installations that can be linked to agriculture or pastoralism. This work was supplemented by archaeobotanical, archaeozoological and geo-archaeological research, as weIl as a study of the environment.Ce rapport préliminaire présente les résultats de deux campagnes de fouilles et de prospection conduites en 2005 et 2006 sur le site d’Al-Rawda (Syrie du centre-ouest) et dans la microrégion de 100 km2 qui l’entoure. Le site, une ville neuve circulaire au plan d’urbanisme préconçu fondé vers 2500 av. J.-C., se trouve en zone steppique. Il n’est habité que durant le Bronze ancien IV, jusqu’à la fin du 3e millénaire.Les travaux en 2005 et 2006 ont porté sur la poursuite du dégagement extensif d’un sanctuaire qui regroupe deux temples et un temenos, avec l’ensemble des installations qu’ils contiennent (dont un bétyle in situ). À l’est, a été mise au jour la porte orientale de la ville tandis que quatre lignes de défense ont été identifiées. Un sondage stratigraphique au sud-ouest éclaire l’origine de la ville. Dans la nécropole associée au site, la fouille d’une tombe en puits collective est présentée.Parallèlement, la prospection intensive autour de la ville antique a été poursuivie en mettant l’accent sur les sites d’habitat contemporains d’Al-Rawda, les tombes caractérisées par type et les aménagements qui peuvent être liés à une mise en valeur agricole du territoire et au pastoralisme. Ces travaux ont été complétés par des études archéobotanique, archéozoologique, géoarchéologique et par une étude des milieux
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