Homesteads on the Khabur : Tell Ziyadeh and other settlements /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2016. ©2016 |
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| Description: | xxiii, 511 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAR international series ; 2827 BAR international series ; 2827. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10929944 |
| Summary: | In 1994-1997, the Yale University Khabur Basin Project excavated Tell Ziyadeh on the Middle Khabur River of Northeastern Syria. This monograph describes two pioneering settlements: fifth millennium BC Ubaid and early third millennium. It discusses the research programme and strategies; reviews the modern and palaeoenvironments; and provides separate chapters describing the various excavation areas, as well as the ceramic, lithic, faunal and botanical remains found in them. Two chapters describe small-scale excavations at Mashnaqa and Kuran, sites with occupation histories paralleling Ziyadeh. The monograph concludes with a discussion of the immigration by fifth-millennium Ubaid settlers into a virgin landscape in the Khabur, and the gradual transition into a widespread Late Chalcolithic tradition. It provides a reconstruction of the realities of life in these small homesteads, which comprised a society of closely interacting settlements and remained viable for hundreds of years before moving elsewhere, as simultaneously as they had initially arrived. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 511 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-511). |
| ISBN: | 9781407314624 1407314629 |