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Sombrero lids’ and children’s pots. An Early Bronze Age shaft grave from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani

2006

Tell Shiyukh Tahtani is one of the ancient mounds in the upper Syrian Euphrates Valley, which has been recently investigated by a team of the University of Palermo as part of the Tishreen Dam Salvage project1. Apart from various levels of occupation, ranging from the early third millennium B.C. to classical and Islamic times, these excavations have brought to light a fairly large amount of graves (about 90), which, beside providing many interesting finds, allow us to undertake a detailed study of Bronze Age burial practices at the site and in northern Syria as a whole. In dedicating the present paper to Uwe Finkbeiner, who has, as an excavator, made a great contribution to the archaeology o…

Settore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente AnticoMiddle Euphrates Valley Tell Shiyukh Tahtani burial Customs Early Bronze Age Syria
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Tell Shiyukh Tahtani. New light on the Bronze Age sequence

2014

This report briefly describes the latest results of the Italian rescue excavations at Shiyukh Tahtani on the Upper Syrian Euphrates. Fieldwork continued on the eastern slope of the mound, aiming to further investigate the Bronze Age levels. A main operation, halfway down the slope, focused upon the earliest MB I layers, where a group of burials was unearthed, mostly consisting of adult interments in oval pits and child pot burials. A most striking finding was the ‘Spinstress tomb’. At the foot of the slope, the exploration of a mud-brick compound, dating back to the early third millennium BC, continued. Here further remarkable evidence of massive domestic architecture in a fine Mesopotamian…

Tell Shiyukh Tahtani Euphrates valley Syria transition Late Chalcolithic tradition Early Bronze Age architecture Midlle Bronze Age burialsSettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente Antico
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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.

Tell Shiyukh Tahtaniburial customSettore L-OR/05 - Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte Del Vicino Oriente AnticoNORTH SYRIA early Bronze Age PotteryMiddle Euphrate
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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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