Circular cities of early bronze age Syria /

Circular cities of early bronze age Syria /

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Imprint:Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]
©2020
Description:xxvi, 395 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), charts, plans ; 28 cm.
Language:English
French
Series:Subartu, 1780-3233 ; XLII
Subartu ; 42.
Subject:
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria -- Congresses.
Bronze age -- Syria -- Congresses.
Urbanization -- Syria -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Antiquities.
Bronze age.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Urbanization.
Syria -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Syria.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12535589
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Other authors / contributors:Castel, Corinne, editor.
Meyer, Jan-Waalke, editor.
Quenet, Philippe, editor.
Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux (Lyon, France), host institution.
ISBN:9782503551838
2503551831
Notes:"An international conference entitled 'Origines, structure, développement et sociologie des villes circulaires de Syrie au Bronze ancien / Origins, Structure, Development and Sociology of Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria' took place in Lyon, at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux, from 21 to 23 November 2013"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English with some contributions in French; abstracts in English and French.
Summary:"This volume corresponds to the acts of a conference that closes the international interdisciplinary research project Badiyah, directed by Corinne Castel and Jan-Waalke Meyer (Directors of the Tell Al-Rawda and Tell Chuera archaeological missions). Both sites illustrate the importance of the 3rd millennium BCE 'circular cities' discovered in today's Syria. These pre-planned cities were fortified and organized following a concentric and radial urban pattern. They represent a particular form of the endogenous process of urbanization that appeared in this region when the first cities and territorial states emerged. The main results obtained from these two sites are compared to other Syrian 'circular cities' of the Early Bronze Age. Twenty-nine contributions enable us to reassess the process of urbanization in the Near East and to question the Southern Mesopotamian model as the unique cradle of urban civilization."--Back cover.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1
  • Syrian circular cities of the third millenium BC: a Syrian urban model / Corinne Castel
  • 2
  • Spatial and temporal distribution of circular cities in early bronze age Syria: a reappraisal / Philippe Quenet
  • 3
  • The birth of the circular cities / Jan-Waalke Meyer
  • Section I
  • Thematic Topics
  • Origins of the model
  • 4
  • The origin and early development of Tell Chuēra and neighbouring settlements / Ralph Hempelmann
  • 5
  • Retracing settlements, pots, and people: Frankfurt University's Southeast Anatolia Project (SOAP) / Christian Falb & Mustafa Kibaroğlu
  • Circular cities: Fortifications and official areas
  • 6
  • The fortification of circular cities: the examples of Tell Chuēra and Tell Al-Rawda / Tobias B.H. Helms & Philippe Quenet
  • 7
  • Creating the urban landscape: the emergence of monumentality in third-millenium Chuēra / Olesia Kromberg
  • 8
  • The early bronze age palace at Chuēra and the decline of the settlement / Alexander Tamm
  • Circular cities: material culture
  • 9
  • A comparison of early bronze age ceramic assemblages from circular cities in Inner Syria and the Wester jezirah: some preliminary considerations / Taos Babour & Georges Mouamar
  • 10
  • Djemdet Nasr or early bronze age III? Dating the find locations of Tell Chuēra seal impressions
  • Peri-urban constructions and environmental studies
  • 11
  • The circular cities of Northern Syria in their environmental context / Stefan L. Smith & Tony J. Wilkinson
  • 12
  • Soils and land use potential around Tell Chuēra in the third millenium BC / Heinrich Thiemeyer
  • 13
  • Central places in the wadi hamar survey area: aspects of urban planning in the regions of the badiyah project in the third millenium BC / Veronika Kudlek
  • 14
  • Stratégies de subsistance et économie végétale dans les villes circulaires de la Shamiyah au bronze ancien. Tell Al-Rawda et Tell Sh'airat dans les marges arides de Syrie / Linda Herveux
  • 15
  • Potentiels agro-pastoraux et aménagements agricoles périurbains de la microrégion d'Al-Rawda / Olivier Barge & Marie-Laure Chambrade
  • 16
  • Animal economy at the end of the third millenium BC in the Syrian Badiyah: a comparative study of Tell Chuēra and Tell Al-Rawda / Emmanuelle Vila
  • 17
  • A cataclysm in the Steppe? Environmental history of Al-Rawda, an ephemeral city in the Syrian arid margins at the end of the third millenium / Jacques Élie Brochier
  • Society and textual sources
  • 18
  • The Ebla Palace G texts and the circular cities of third-millenium eastern Syria: some remarks / Maria Giovanna Biga
  • The Ebla Palace G texts and the circular cities of third-millenium southern Syria: some remarks / Amalia Catagnoti
  • 20
  • Square temples and circular cities: sites of attraction, 'traditions of identity,' and the third-millenium urbanization in northern Syria / Anne Porter
  • Section II
  • Regional topics
  • Anatolia
  • 21
  • The spatial organization, development, and sociology of radial pattern settlenments in early bronze age Anatolia / Bérengère Perello
  • Jezirah
  • 22
  • Mari, une ville circulaire ordinaire? / Pascal Butterlin
  • 23
  • Notes sur l'architecture et l'urbanisme du Royaume de Nagar (3): similarités entre Tell Brak et Tell Beydar à l'époque Early Jezirah 3b
  • 24
  • Tell Khazna I: a cocentric planned settlement in teh Khabur Steppe / Shahmardan N. Amirov
  • 25
  • Tell Techolema Foqani: a new circular city 'Kranzhügel' in the region of upper Jezirah
  • 26
  • A season's work at Khirbet Malhat, north-eastern Syria / Bishri
  • Bishri
  • 27
  • La contribution du Jebel Bishri à la thématique des villes circulaires du troisième millénaire av. J.-C. / Ahmad Sultan
  • Shamiyah
  • 28
  • A planned new major city on the margins of the Syrian Steppe: early bronze age Tell Sh'airat
  • Southern Mesopotamia
  • 29
  • Town planning in third-millenium Mesopotamia: a view from the alluvial plain / Régis Vallet.
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