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Collapse or Continuity? The case of the EB-MB transition at Tell Shiyukh Tahtani

2007

La fin du Troisieme Millenaire est, dans l'histoire du Proche-Orient ancien, une periode sujette a contro¬verses car, selon les regions, elle connalt soil une disintegration et un effondrement culturels, soil une conti¬nuite et un developpement urbains. Le tableau general de la situation reste confus, particulierement en. Syrie, ou it a fait /'objet d'un grand nombre de theories et de modeles d'interpretation. La periode de "transition" entre le Bronze Ancien et le Bronze Moyen est ici consideree du point de vue d'un petit site rural de la vallee de l'Euphrate en Syrie du Nord, Tell Shiyukh Tahtani. Les fouilles recentes realisees par l'Universite de Palerme y ant mis au jour une longue seq…

Transition in archaeology Syria Early Bronze Age Syria Middle Bronze Age Middle Euphrates Tell Shiyukh Tahtani Pottery studySettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente Antico
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Tell Shiyukh Tahtani, Syria Report of the 2006-09 Seasons

2012

The Italian excavations at Shiyukh Tahtani have recently resumed, revealing a long occupation sequence on the mound’s eastern slope (Area CD). In Trench D23, on the summit, an Iron Age level II building contained a rich array of pottery, sheep knuckle bones, clay ‘bobbins’ and an unstratified Egyptian scarab of Menkheperre. An earlier massive building (LBA ?) was also excavated below the Iron Age II occupation. Halfway down the slope the lower level of a large burnt complex of Middle Bronze I date contained rich finds and various burials characterized by peculiar rituals. Finally, in a deep trench down below the slope, EB I-II remains included niched mud-brick architecture of fine Mesopo…

Syria Early Bronze Age Middle Bronze Age Middle EuphratesSettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente Antico
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