Search results for "Middle Euphrate"
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Plain and luxury wares of the third millennium BC in the Carchemish region: two case-studies from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
2007
In the last decades the large number of salvage excavations undertaken in north Syria and southeastern Anatolia has generated much interest regarding the role that the culture of the Big Bend of the Euphrates River played during the 3rd millennium BC. the aim of the present paper is to examine some particular pottery assemblages of the second half of the 3rd millennium which can be relevant for a discussion about a putative Carchemish region in the Early Bronze Age.
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…
Tell el-'Abd II. Pottery and Potmarks at an Early Urban Settlement of the Middle Euphrates River Valley, Syria. Final Reports of the Syrian-German ex…
2013
The monograph investigates the breakdown of the Uruk world-system towards the end of the 4th millennium BCE, and the roots of secondary state formation in the Middle Euphrates region through the analysis of continuity and change in the Early Bronze ceramic material from the site of Tell el-‘Abd (Tabqa Dam, Syria). This analysis fills a chronological gap for the early third millennium, a period poorly known in the district downstream from Carchemish. It further includes the study of over 1300 potter’s marks, thus offering new insight into the intra- and inter-site organization of pottery production and into a complex and variegated system of visual communication active at a regional level be…