The Archaeology Of Syria

Author : Peter M. M. G. Akkermans,Glenn M. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796660

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The Archaeology of Syria by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans,Glenn M. Schwartz Pdf

This was the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field archaeology in the Middle East in the past thirty years, and Peter Akkermans and Glenn Schwartz discuss the results of this intensive fieldwork, integrating them with earlier research. Alongside the major material culture types of each period, they examine important contributions of Syrian archaeology to issues like the onset of agriculture, the emergence of private property and social inequality, the rise and collapse of urban life, and the archaeology of early empires. All competing interpretations are set out and considered, alongside the authors' own perspectives and conclusions.

Author : Lidewijde de Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107131415

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The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria by Lidewijde de Jong Pdf

This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

Author : Y. Kanjou,Akira Tsuneki
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913823

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A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites by Y. Kanjou,Akira Tsuneki Pdf

This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume

Author : Jeanine Abdul Massih,Shinichi Nishiyama,Hanan Charaf,Ahmad Deb
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784919481

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Archaeological Explorations in Syria 2000-2011 by Jeanine Abdul Massih,Shinichi Nishiyama,Hanan Charaf,Ahmad Deb Pdf

Syria has been a major crossroads of civilizations in the ancient Near East since the dawn of human kind. This volume brings together scholars involved in archaeological activities in Syria and focusses on the scientific aspects of each explored site, allowing researchers to examine in detail each heritage site, its characteristics and identity.

Author : William C Prentiss,Ian Kuijt
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874807936

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Complex Hunter Gatherers by William C Prentiss,Ian Kuijt Pdf

A broad synthesis of the archaeology of the Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest and the evolution and organization of the complex hunter-gatherers in general.

Author : Edmond Pottier,René Dussaud,Gaston Migeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123808557

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Syria by Edmond Pottier,René Dussaud,Gaston Migeon Pdf

Author : Glenn M. Schwartz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770968

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Rural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia by Glenn M. Schwartz Pdf

This book presents the results of the extensive excavation of a small, rural village from the period of emerging cities in upper Mesopotamia (modern northeast Syria) in the early to middle third millennium BC. Prior studies of early Near Eastern urban societies generally focused on the cities and elites, neglecting the rural component of urbanization. This research represents part of a move to rectify that imbalance. Reports on the architecture, pottery, animal bones, plant remains, and other varieties of artifacts and ecofacts enhance our understanding of the role of villages in the formation of urban societies, the economic relationship between small rural sites and urban centers, and status and economic differentiation in villages. Among the significant results are the extensive exposure of a large segment of the village area, revealing details of spatial and social organization and household economics. The predominance of large-scale grain storage and processing leads to questions of staple finance, economic relations with pastoralists, and connections to developing urban centers.

Author : Harvey Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 0865280290

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Ebla to Damascus by Harvey Weiss Pdf

Author : Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032547401

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Villages in the Steppe by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans Pdf

This study aims to shed some light on the nature of prehistoric human occupation in the Balikh valley of northern Syria. Human settlement in the Balikh valley has a long history, and due to its central geographic position the region was of great importance in terms of communication and cultural interaction in many periods.

Author : Peter J. Parr
Publisher : Levant Supplementary
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1782977864

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Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend, Syria by Peter J. Parr Pdf

The archaeological site of Tell Nebi Mend, a tell on the Homs plain in present-day Syria, is universally recognised as the location, first, of Qadesh (or Kadesh), where, in c. 1286 BC, the armies of Ramesses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of Great Hatti fought the most famous battle of pre-classical antiquity, and, second, of Laodicea ad Libanum, founded most probably in the 3rd century BC as the capital of a district of the Seleucid empire. Collaborative excavations undertaken over 12 seasons aimed to fill a major gap in archaeological knowledge between the northern and southern Levant and to develop an understanding of the archaeology and early history of the Levantine Corridor independent of, and supplementing, that based on Palestinian and Biblical research. The primary aim was to obtain as complete a sequence as possible of cultural and environmental data, sampling all periods of the site's occupation, which included Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Hellenistic/Roman deposits, enclosures and defenses spanning the 7th millennium BC to the mid-1st millennium AD. A definitive classification of all types of Syrian pottery over two millennia was established, together with a much longer sequence of pottery, stone, metal and bone implements, terracottas and other cultural remains, accompanied by a wealth of environmental data and a series of radiometric dates. The earliest settlement so far discovered at Tell Nebi Mend dates to the first half of the 7th millennium BC and is the subject of this volume. Five phases of occupation were recognized with architectural features including, at different times, house structures and remains of larger, probably communal, buildings, along with remains of plaster, floor surfaces, fire and rubbish pits and burials, followed by large-scale abandonment. More than 2000 sherds of Neolithic pottery and 1400 flint and obsidian artifacts were recovered.

Author : Simon James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191061219

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The Roman Military Base at Dura-Europos, Syria by Simon James Pdf

Dura-Europos, a Parthian-ruled Greco-Syrian city, was captured by Rome c.AD165. It then accommodated a Roman garrison until its destruction by Sasanian siege c.AD256. Excavations of the site between the World Wars made sensational discoveries, and with renewed exploration from 1986 to 2011, Dura remains the best-explored city of the Roman East. A critical revelation was a sprawling Roman military base occupying a quarter of the city's interior. This included swathes of civilian housing converted to soldiers' accommodation and several existing sanctuaries, as well as baths, an amphitheatre, headquarters, and more temples added by the garrison. Base and garrison were clearly fundamental factors in the history of Roman Dura, but what impact did they have on the civil population? Original excavators gloomily portrayed Durenes evicted from their homes and holy places, and subjected to extortion and impoverishment by brutal soldiers, while recent commentators have envisaged military-civilian concordia, with shared prosperity and integration. Detailed examination of the evidence presents a new picture. Through the use of GPS, satellite, geophysical and archival evidence, this volume shows that the Roman military base and resident community were even bigger than previously understood, with both military and civil communities appearing much more internally complex than has been allowed until now. The result is a fascinating social dynamic which we can partly reconstruct, giving us a nuanced picture of life in a city near the eastern frontier of the Roman world.

Author : Frédérique Duyrat
Publisher : Numismatic Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0897223462

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Wealth and Warfare by Frédérique Duyrat Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive look at Syrian coin hoards and contains a catalogue of every coin hoard discovered in what is now modern Syria through 2010. Duyrat explores the definitions of "hoard" and "treasure", explores the circulation of currency in the ancient Levant, and considers excavation coins as well as the phenomenon of coin hoard discoveries during times of regional conflict. This is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in the origin of coin hoards in Syria, and how war effects the archaeological record, specifically through the lens of numismatics.

Author : Alan Walmsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472537768

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Early Islamic Syria by Alan Walmsley Pdf

After more than a century of neglect, a profound revolution is occurring in the way archaeology addresses and interprets developments in the social history of early Islamic Syria-Palestine. This concise book offers an innovative assessment of social and economic developments in Syria-Palestine shortly before, and in the two centuries after, the Islamic expansion (the later sixth to the early ninth century AD), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from recent archaeological work. Alan Walmsley challenges conventional explanations for social change with the arrival of Islam, arguing for considerable cultural and economic continuity rather than devastation and unrelenting decline. Much new, and increasingly non-elite, architectural evidence and an ever-growing corpus of material culture indicate that Syria-Palestine entered a new age of social richness in the early Islamic period, even if the gains were chronologically and regionally uneven.

Author : Harvey Weiss
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032352143

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Ebla to Damascus by Harvey Weiss Pdf

Exhibition held at Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md. and others, Sept. 1985-Sept. 1987.

Author : David Oates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015051914714

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Of Pots and Plans by David Oates Pdf