Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia : Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glatz, Claudia.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book features a collection of papers produced in honour of Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Reading. Roger previously taught at UCL's Institute of Archaeology (2001-2010), before which he served as the Director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (BSAI, today BISI) in Baghdad and the British Institute at Ankara (BIA) in the 1980s and 1990s. The volume honours Roger's legacy by assembling interdisciplinary research by his students, collaborators, and colleagues that maps challenges and new possibilities in the archaeology of Southwest Asia across the interrelated themes that have emerged from his work in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Türkiye.

Contents:

Intro

Author biographies

Foreword

Selected publications by Roger Matthews

Theme 1

Transitions in human sociality and economy

Devolving Early Neolithic community ecology: animal connections and interactions at Bestansur, Iraq

Robin Bendrey

"If only those jaws could move". A narrative of Building 1 at Çatalhöyük

Ian Hodder

Beyond subsistence: new perspectives on Sialk North village, 6000-4900 BCE

Hassan Fazeli Nashli, Javad Hussainzadeh and Jebrael Nokandeh

Cities, symbols and deities: ancient and modern constructions of political power in Late Chalcolithic southern Iraq

Mónica Palmero Fernández

Washing hands and feet? Personal hygiene at Abu Salabikh (and further north)

Nicholas Postgate

To change, or not to change… Transitional glyptic styles in ED II Fara / Šuruppak and their relation to officialdom

Adelheid Otto

Two Babylonian beakers and an unpublished report on excavations at Ur in 1858

John Curtis

How high were the walls of Mesopotamia?

John MacGinnis

Large-scale pottery production at Middle Bronze Age Qatna

Daniele Morandi Bonacossi

The beads from the Achaemenid period of the archaeological site of Barikot, Swat Valley, northern Pakistan (c. 500-350 BCE): a preliminary typological study

Mubariz Ahmed Rabbani

Interlude 1. Roger's deconstruction seminar

Birger Ekornåsvåg Helgestad

Theme 2

Human-environmental interactions in the Zagros region from the Epipalaeolithic to the Neolithic period: key debates and issues

Maria Rabbani

Still mind the gap: a note on the 'missing millennium' between the Late Epipalaeolithic and the Transitional Neolithic in the central Zagros

Hojjat Darabi

The walking dead: a brief view on the mobility of mortuary remains and practices in the Neolithic central Zagros and adjacent regions

Judith Thomalsky.

Rural fortitude at Çadır Höyük: the 5.9 and 5.2 kya climate events on the Anatolian plateau

Madelynn von Baeyer, Sharon R. Steadman and Benjamin Arbuckle

Commensality, ritual and the making of transtopographic communities

Claudia Glatz

Ancient neighbourhoods

Alessandra Salvin

"Alas the destroyed city!" A search for private houses of the Ur III period at Ur

Elizabeth Stone and Paul Zimansky

Thinking through and beyond the hinterland: towards a critical archaeology of rural settlements in Western Asia

Christoph Bachhuber

Hilltop forts and pasture control: the spatial organisation of the semi-nomadic communities in the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age South Caucasus

Guido Guarducci

Archaeology of the recent past in mountainous Kurdistan: Kani Gund village

Karel Nováček, Lenka Starková and Hemin Naman Kawes

Interlude 2. A person of influence: in gratitude and admiration to Prof. Roger Matthews

Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin

Theme 3

East India Company diplomats and antiquarians in early nineteenth-century Iraq

Michael Seymour

Partialities, priorities and unintended glimpses of the archaeological process: a review of the site reports of the British excavations at Carchemish

Lisa Cooper

Reverting to the Fertile Crescent: the story of the CZAP project 2008

Yaghoub Mohammadifar

Leading transitions in research excavations: impacts of the excavations at Neolithic Bestansur

Amy Richardson and Kamal Raeuf Aziz

Decolonising knowledge-making on Iraq: a conversation with Zahra Ali

Alesia Koush

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ISBN:

94-6426-360-1