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Recensioni di Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh, Volume 1. The 2003-2004 Excavation Seasons, edito da K.A. Yener,
No full textSince 2000, the renewed excavations at Tell Atchana/Alalakh, under the direction of Kutlu A. Yener, opened a new season of discoveries in this Middle and Late Bronze Age ancient capital site.
First surveyed in the 1930s by Robert Braidwood, the mound of Alalakh was then explored between 1936 and 1949, with a break during the II World War, by a British expedition led by C.L. Woolley.
In spite of the outstanding results of the British expedition at the site, it was clear that much work had still to be done in order to understand the 2nd millennium BC city and its landscape
Craft, Administration and Power in Early Dynastic Mesopotamian Public Buildings. Recovering the Plano-convex Building at Kish
No full textThe Plano-convex building (PCB) at Kish is a very significant complex from the 3rd millennium in Mesopotamia. This construction was partially exposed and the evidence was sketchily recorded and published by the Anglo-American expedition. Notwithstanding the value of subsequent studies, much work remains to be done to understand the stratigraphy, chronology and function of the building. Thus, the aim of this paper is the understanding of the architectural and chronological sequence of area P and to reconstruct activities and the use of space in the Plano-convex building. New data have been obtained analyzing the unpublished documentation and materials kept in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Field Museum, Chicago. Thanks to the new information (data?), a stratigraphical sequence ranging from the late Early Dynastic to the early Akkadian period has been recognized. Furthermore different activities such as beer brewing, textile and oil production, as well as shell working were identified (not discernible) within the PCB. Those were managed through a multi-step economic system confirmed by the presence of specific finds. Finally, architectural analysis provides hints suggesting that the PCB might have housed the administration of political power by élite or even royal families
A Radiocarbon Date from Early Dynastic Kish and the Stratigraphy and Chronology of the YWN Sounding at Tell Ingharra
No full textBetween 1927 and 1930 a joint expedition by the University of Oxford and the Field Museum of Chicago to the site of Kish opened a series of soundings (ZY, Y, YW and YWN) on the mound of Tell Ingharra in order to investigate the earliest periods of the settlement. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the YWN sounding utilizing previously unpublished documentation and excavated objects, and offers a new interpretation of the evidence. In addition, a new radiocarbon date assigns the latest phase from the sounding to the ED IIIb to Akkadian transition and it can be compared usefully with existing dates from several Central and North Mesopotamian sites
OrientDams: The Impact of Dams on Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
Get PDFDams represent a controversial tool for economic development. Less contested is their
impact on archaeological and heritage resources.
It is widely agreed that in addition to water reserves, massive hydraulic infrastructures
provide different types of benefits, such as the production of electricity, increased farmland
brought by irrigation as well as developments of fishery and water-related industries.
However, in addition to their maintenance costs, the construction and up-filling of dams
entails potential political international issues when built on rivers flowing through different
countries, the dislocation of thousands of people, the permanent loss of the best soils and
the widespread destruction of both cultural and natural heritage
Rediscovering the Heartland of Cities. South Mesopotamian Early States in Their Setting through New Field Research
Get PDFThe study of Mesopotamian early urbanism has its roots in Robert McCormick Adams’s pioneering research of the 1960s and 1970s. From the holistic approach applied during his long academic career derived the historical narratives that still represent the starting point for many recent reappraisals. Adams’s surveys in southern Mesopotamia were carried out according to standards and scopes that were unparalleled in their time. The large-scale perspective applied to different regions of central and southern Iraq during over thirty years of fieldwork resulted in seminal works like The Land behind Baghdad (1965), The Uruk Countryside (1972)
and Heartland of Cities (1981)
Il sondaggio Y a Kish: Cronologia, stratigrafia ed architettura
No full textThe excavations at Kiš, carried out between 1923 and 1933 by the joint Anglo-American Expedition of the University of Oxford and the Field Museum of Chicago, brought to light a tremendous amount of objects as well as settlement phases on a wide chronological range. The investigations revealed the 3rd millennium BC as the most flourishing period of the site, a datum confirmed by the results obtained especially at Tell Ingharra.
The aim of the study is to propose a new reconstruction of the archaeological sequence and to understand the urban and architectural layouts on Tell Ingharra during the Early Dynastic period, focusing on the Y sounding where the best sequence of this period was unearthed. In order to achieve this purpose new data have been brought analyzing the unpublished documentation and materials kept in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford and Field Museum of Chicago
12-The Early Islamic Period (in Recent archaeological discoveries at Karkemish, ed. N. Marchetti)
No full textThe Iron Age II-III Pottery Assemblage from Karkemish and Yunus
No full textDuring the 2011 excavation campaign at Karkemish
and Yunus, the joint Turco-Italian expedition
brought to light several later Iron Age contexts,
with their pottery assemblages. A preliminary
analysis of the Iron Age (hereafter IA) II-III pottery
is proposed here on the basis of this fresh evidence
as well as on the results of the excavations conducted
by C. L. Woolley. The IA II-III materials retrieved by the British Museum
expedition came from the Hilani, the Lower Palace
area, the Storm-God Temple, the King's Gate, as well
as from some buildings of the Outer Town and the Yunus cemetery.
Most of these areas have been newly investigated by
the joint Turco-Italian Expedition in 2011. In particular the efforts were concentrate in the so-called "Lower Palace Area", where three
operations were opened: area A (Storm-God Temple),
area B (Hilani) and area C (King's Gate). Another
area (D) was opened at the edge of the Inner Town
with the aim of studying Woolley's "South Gate". In
the Outer Town, area E was opened in order to intercept
the alleged Assyrian city wall, while close
to the Syrian border, we documented the remains of
House A and investigated a small part of a cremation
cemetery (Area F). Therefore during the 2011 excavations,
domestic, religious, palatial, funerary and
military contexts have been investigated. This variety
might provide the basis for future studies dealing with
functional interpretations of spaces and of the pottery
assemblages
Tell Ingharra-East Kish in the 3rd Millennium BC: Urban Development, Architecture and Functional Analysis
No full textExtensive archaeological excavations at Kish have exposed a complex archaeological stratification which spans the entire 3rd millennium BC. This paper aims at critically reviewing the results achieved by the Anglo-American expedition and to provide a new interpretation of the urban and architectural development of Tell Ingharra/East Kish during the Early Dynastic period. New synchronized stratigraphical sequences of selected areas, together with renewed plans and sections, have been produced on the basis of the unpublished documentation and materials kept in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford and in the Field Museum of Chicago
A Functional and Morphological Analysis of the Iron Age III Pottery Assemblage at Taşlı Geçit Höyük.
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