From pottery to chronology : the Middle Euphrates region in Late Bronze Age Syria : proceedings of the international workshop in Mainz (Germany), May 5-7, 2012 / edited by Adelheid Otto.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Otto, Adelheid, editor.

Conference Name:

International Workshop on the Chronology of the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th century BC) in Northern Syria (Upper Syrian Euphrates Area): Emar, Tall al-Qitar, Tall Munbāqa, Umm el-Marra and Tall Bazi (2012 : Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), author.

Series:

Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient ; Band 1.

Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient ; Band 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Bronze age.

Pottery.

Euphrates River Valley--Antiquities--Congresses.

Euphrates River Valley.

Middle East--Euphrates River Valley.

Syria.

Pottery--Euphrates River Valley--Congresses.

Pottery--Syria--Congresses.

Bronze age--Euphrates River Valley--Congresses.

Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Euphrates River Valley--Congresses.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gladbeck : PeWe-Verlag, 2018.

Summary:

This volume is the result of an International Workshop on the Chronology of the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th Century BC) in Northern Syria (Upper Syrian Euphrates Area): Emar, Tall al-Qitar, Tall Munbaqa, Umm el-Marra and Tall Bazi. It took place on May 5-7, 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. The need for the workshop was felt by the excavators of the mentioned sites, because a considerable number of LBA sites has been investigated in the Upper Euphrates area by now, but the relative and absolute chronology of most sites is still a matter of debate. The workshop in Mainz tried to tackle the problem of the dating of the Late Bronze Age of the Upper Syrian Euphrates region with the most simple and obvious method. The excavators and pottery specialists of the relevant sites were for the first time brought together. Each team was asked to present its stratified ceramic material and to explain their methods of dating: had the pottery sequence been dated by parallel with another settlement? If so, with which settlement? Or had the stratified material been dated by internal criteria, by written documents or by other well datable objects such as seals, tools and weapons, imported pottery or others? Or had it been dated by radiocarbon or other scientific analyses? The defined aim, which was circulated among the participants in advance, was by putting together and by comparing the relevant stratified material, it should be possible to discern the consistencies and differences within the material and the reasons for them.

Contents:

Introduction to the Chronology, History and Main Challenges of the Syrian Late Bronze Age / Adelheid Otto

Late Bronze Chronology at Umm el-Marra : Problems and Possibilities / Glenn M. Schwartz

La céramique du complexe palatial d'Emar (fouilles françaises 1972-1976) / Annie Caubet

LBA Emar Revisited : The stratified LBA pottery from the Syrian-German excavations / Ferhan Sakal

Absolute Chronology of Late Bronze Age Tall Munbāqa/Ekalte / Felix Blocher & Peter Werner

Cracking the Chronological Code of Qitar / Thomas L. McClellan

The Late Bronze Age at Tall Bazi : The evidence of the pottery and the challenges of radiocarbon dating / Berthold Einwag & Adelheid Otto

Tall Bazi : the Middle and Late Bronze age pottery from the Citadel's Nordhang / Costanza Coppini

The Tell Banat Settlement Complex during the Third and Second Millennia BCE / Anne Porter

Summing up the Late Bronze Age of the Upper Syrian Euphrates Region / Adelheid Otto.

Notes:

Includes errata leaf.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783935012294

3935012292

OCLC:

1049985209

Publisher Number:

9783935012294