Homesteads on the Khabur : Tell Ziyadeh and other settlements /

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Imprint:Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2016.
©2016
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
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Other authors / contributors:Hole, Frank, editor.
Tonoike, Yukiko, editor.
Arzt, Jennifer Melanie, contributor.
Diebold, Benjamin, contributor.
Gregerová, Miroslava, 1948- contributor.
Johnson, Gregory Alan, contributor.
Kouchoukos, Nicholas, contributor.
McCorriston, Joy, 1961- contributor.
Rufolo, Scott J., contributor.
Všianský, Dalibor, contributor.
ISBN:9781407314624
1407314629
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-511).
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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.
Physical Description:xxiii, 511 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-511).
ISBN:9781407314624
1407314629