Tell Shiyukh Tahtani, Syria Report of the 2006-09 Seasons [PDF]
, 2012 The Italian excavations at Shiyukh Tahtani have recently resumed, revealing a long occupation sequence on the mound’s eastern slope (Area CD). In Trench D23, on the summit, an Iron Age level II building contained a rich array of pottery, sheep knuckle
FALSONE, Gioacchino, Sconzo, P.
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Cementerios y prácticas funerarias a lo largo del valle del Éufrates Medio durante la Edad del Bronce Temprano [PDF]
, 2018 The main aim of this paper is to compare the cemetaries along the Syrian Middle Euphrtes from Karkemish to Abu Kamal and in the Djezirah hinterland.
Al Khabour, Anas
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The Euphrates-Tigris-Karun river system: Provenance, recycling and dispersal of quartz-poor foreland-basin sediments in arid climate [PDF]
, 2016 We present a detailed sediment-provenance study on the modern Euphrates-Tigris-Karun fluvial system and Mesopotamian foreland basin, one of the cradles of humanity. Our rich petrographic and heavy-mineral dataset, integrated by sand geochemistry and U–Pb
Akkoca, DB +13 more
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Regional Signifiers and the Many Locations of the ‘Land Between the Rivers’ [PDF]
, 2018 Rune RattenborgConfiguring Mesopotamia: Regional Signifiers and the Many Locationsof the ‘Land Between the Rivers’SummaryIt seems a travesty to reiterate exactly what we mean by ‘Meso-potamia’.
Rattenborg, Rune
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La Gestión de los recursos minerales silíceos en las primeras comunidades campesinas en el valle medio del Éufrates : VIIIº-VIIº milenios Cal. B.C. : implicaciones socioeconómicas del proceso de producción lítico / [PDF]
, 2006 Consultable des del TDXTítol obtingut de la portada digitalitzadaEn este trabajo se estudian 15862 restos líticos tallados. 8951 de Akarçay Tepe y 6911 de Tell Halula, yacimientos ubicados en el valle medio del Éufrates. El material lítico de Tell Halula
Borrell Tena, Ferran
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Tell Khaiber: An administrative centre of the Sealand period [PDF]
, 2017 Excavations at Tell Khaiber in southern Iraq by the Ur Region Archaeological Project have revealed a substantial building (hereafter the Public Building) dating to the mid-second millennium b.c.
Calderbank, Daniel +6 more
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Review of The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin, translated by Trevor Watkins (New Studies in Archaeology). [PDF]
, 2014 When, almost a century ago, Raphael Pumpelly put forward the ‘oasis theory’ for the origins of farming in the Near East, his was one of the first in a long series of explanations which looked to environment and ecology as the cause of the shift from ...
Bar-Yosef, Ofer +4 more
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Defining and Transgressing the Boundaries between Ritual Commensality and Daily Commensal Practices: the Case of Late Bronze Age Tall Bazi [PDF]
, 2012 Ritual commensality is a well documented social practice in texts and visual arts of the Ancient Near East. However, no information about daily commensality can be derived from these sources .The mere fact that a daily procedure as simple as eating and ...
Otto, Adelheid
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Middle East water conflicts and directions for conflict resolution: [PDF]
In looking toward 2020, one of the most severe problems to be faced is an impending shortage of adequate supplies of fresh water essential for drinking and for growing crops. The Middle East, where a few waterways serve large areas of land belonging to a
Wolf, Aaron T.
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Location of the River Euphrates in the Late Miocene; dating of terrace gravel at Shireen, Syria
, 2006 International audienceWe report gravel of the River Euphrates, capped by basalt that is Ar-Ar dated to ~9 Ma, at Shireen in northern Syria. This gravel, preserved by the erosion-resistant basalt, allows us for the first time to reconstruct the history of
Beck, A. +7 more
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