Broadening horizons 4 : a conference of young researchers working in the ancient Near East, Egypt and Central Asia, University of Torino, October 2011 / edited by Giorgio Affanni, Cristina Baccarin, Laura Cordera, Angelo Di Michele, Katia Gavagnin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Affanni, Giorgio, editor.

Baccarin, Cristina, editor.

Cordera, Laura, editor.

Di Michele, Angelo, 1977- editor.

Gavagnin, Katia, 1978- editor.

Conference Name:

Broadening Horizons (Conference) (4th : 2011 : Turin, Italy)

Series:

BAR international series ; 2698.

BAR international series ; 2698

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Middle East--Antiquities--Congresses.

Middle East.

Egypt--Antiquities--Congresses.

Egypt.

Asia, Central--Antiquities--Congresses.

Asia, Central.

Central Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2015.

Contents:

Presentation / de Martino Stefano

Introduction to the Broadening Horizons 4 conference proceedings / Affanni Giorgio, Baccarin Cristina, Cordera Laura, Di Michele Angelo, Gavagnin Katia

Settlement patterns and exchange networks. Copper mining community in Transcaucasia during Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages / Gailhard Nicolas

Circulating through the city: an analysis of movement and urban space of a Northern Mesopotamian city / Tomé André

A comparative analysis of the cultural interaction between the western and central areas of Anatolian in the third millennium BC / De Vincenzi Tommaso

The socio-economic landscape of the early Bronze IV period in the Southern Levant: a ceramic perspective / D'Andrea Marta

The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in northern Palestine / Soennecken Katja

Transferred religion - can faith be exchanged? / Gropp Andrea

Palmyra, city and territory through the epigraphic sources / Gregoratti Leonardo

Looking at and beyond late Chalcolithic pottery of the Burdur Plain, southwest Turkey / Vandam Ralf, Poblome Jeroen

Architecture and use of space in middle Bronze and late Bronze Ages in Mesopotamian Temples / Di Michele Angelo

Socio-economic reconstruction of ancient societies based on archaeological, historical or environmental records. Demolition and restoration at Giza: the Egyptian sense of history and heritage / Gilli Barbara

The modelling skulls from the ancient Near East / Marchand Florine

The 'hammerhead bowls' in Syrian-Jezirah: a case-study from Tell Barri / Raccidi Mattia

Wagons and wine in early Bronze Age central Anatolia / Whalen Jess

The early-middle Bronze Age transition in Transcaucasia: the Bedeni pottery case / Carminati Eleonora

Human iconography on metal vessels from Bronze Age Middle Asia / Morello Martina

The Oracle at Didyma, Hittite duddumar and the mercy of the gods / Walker Robert

Italian excavations at Nimrud: preliminary studies about shell, glass and stone small finds / Somma Lorenzo

Ceramics from Achaemenid and post Achaemenid Qaleh Kali (Tappeh Servan, Jinjun), Iran: political reality versus cultural actuality / McRae Iona Kat

Influence of the social class division on the Sassanian burial rituals (224-650 AD) / Farjamirad Mahdokht

New sealings from Old Nisa / Manassero Niccolo

The Islamic relief-moulded jugs from Tell Barri (Syria) / Pappalardo Raffaella

Investigating the origin of Early Bronze Age monumental chamber tombs in the Middle Euphrates Valley / Baccarin Cristina

Application of new technologies in archaeological research. Unlocking stories from objects: some ancient near eastern case-studies based on new research at the British Museum / Simpson St John

Inferential analysis in archaeology: the Chi Square and its application to ceramic studies. A case study from Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age pottery of Qatna / Iamoni Marco

Organic remains from middle Bronze Age ceramic vessels at Tell Ahmar (North Syria) / Perini Silvia

Close encounters between archaeology and archaeometry in Cyprus / Chelazzi Francesca, Davit Patrizia

Basalt vessels distribution in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age / Squitieri Andrea

Broadening the horizons of space and place. A new interdisciplinary, multiscalar approach on settlement patterns / Andreou Georgia Marina

New technologies in archaeological research at Palmyra: the case of the Italian-Syrian Mission PAL.M.A.I.S. / Palmieri Lilia, Rossi Giorgio

A complete operational sequence of a bone industry element from the Northern Near East: a Neolithic bevelled tool / Taha Buchra

Probable cases of leprosy in two skulls from the Koc-Oba Kurgan (Kazakhstan) / Pedrosi Maria Elena, Mariotti Valentina, Belcastro Maria Giovanna

Impact of human dynamics on landscape evolution. Frontiers and rortifications in Assyria: an introduction / Morello Nathan

Exploitation of the natural environment and sustenance strategies. Iron Age water supply systems regarding agriculture at al Madam, Sharjah (U.A.E.) / Del Cerro L. Carmen

The Jaghjagh river valley during the Roman period (II-IV century CE) / Palermo Rocco

Posters. Further remarks about lithic production at Akarçay Tepe (Middle Euphrates Valley) during the Late PPNB / Borrell Ferran

Parthian period storage jars from the south west building in Old Nisa / Ceccarini Giampaolo

The TESS Database for the cataloguing of the mosaics of Crete (Greece) / Da Pieve Paola

The defences of Hatra: a revaluation through the archive of the Italian Expedition / Foietta Enrico

A new assessment of the end of the Oxus Civilization (Southern Central Asia, ca. 1750-1500/1400 BCE): overview of the transformations of the society / Luneau Elise

Fortification systems in central and lower Mesopotamia between the third and the first half of the second Millennium BC: an overview / Zingarello Melania.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Broadening Horizons is an international congress dedicated to postgraduate students and early-stage researchers working with disciplines in the area of Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean studies... The fourth ... was hosted at Università degli Studi di Torino, from the 25th to the 28th of October 2011, when it furthered its horizons in geographical terms by including the area the Central Asia"--page ix.

ISBN:

9781407313474

1407313479

OCLC:

906029188