Potts 2001 - Excavations at Tepe Yahya: The third millennium

The sites of Bat and al-Ziba (Zebah) in the Sultanate of Oman offer a range of different archaeological features dating to the Umm an-Nar period. In this paper we present the pottery assemblages from two burial pits detected just outside a group of Umm an-Nar tombs in the necropolis of Bat, from the monumental Building II in Area B at Bat, and from two house complexes in al-Ziba, which were all excavated by the University of Tubingen between 2010 and 2015. By comparing the assemblages with each other, it will be demonstrated that there is a clear distinction in shapes, wares, and decorations between the burial pits, on the one hand, and Building II and al-Ziba, on the other. We argue, therefore, for a functional difference between grave and non-grave pottery in the Umm an-Nar period. Furthermore, we show that the Umm an-Nar pottery is astonishingly homogeneous in the whole of the northern Oman peninsula and discus its implications for the understanding of the social structure at that time.

of the archaeological activities at Tell al-Mashhad during the 2011 season The archaeological activities of the 2011 season were concentrated inside the large squared building, in the sector close to the north-western corner, called "Area A" (Plates A and B). Plate A. Plan of the Building A. Plate B. Plan of the Area A.

2008

Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 53 , 2010

participated, from the Iranian one Sa'id Shanjamali and Behzad Ali Talesh besides the authors.

2021

The First Sealand period in Babylonia has long been obscure, despite the major changes that occurred in the area at that time. The defining characteristics of its ceramics are almost unknown, making identification of its sites through surface survey almost impossible. However, recent excavations at Tell Khaiber near Ur have uncovered a large fortified building of the period, with a dated administrative archive. The pottery from it represents the first substantial stratified corpus of Sealand period ceramics, providing a solid chronological sequence for the middle centuries of the 2nd millennium in southern Iraq. Using the latest methods and approaches, this volume not only establishes a typology and relative chronology, but also addresses the chaîne opératoire underpinning Sealand period pottery, from clay collection through to vessel use and discard.

Jerusalem Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Givati Parking Lot) Volume II: The Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods, 2020

HARRASSOWITZ, 2023

The two volumes include 142 selected lectures presented at the “12th International Congress on the Archeology of the Ancient Near East” (ICAANE) at the University of Bologna in April 2021. This congress takes place every other year and is the platform for all archaeologists worldwide to present the current results of their research in and on the Near East. The timeframe extends from the Neolithic through the Bronze and Iron ages down to the Achaemenid, Seleuco-Parthian and up to the Islamic period. The geographical frame spans the area from the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia, and from the Black Sea to the Arabian peninsula. Researchers coming from 43 countries have summarized their latest discoveries mostly in English: Volume 1, edited by N Marchetti, M Campeggi, F Cavaliere, C D'Orazio, G Giacosa, E Mariani, comprises 73 contributions related to the conference themes of Environmental Archaeology; hammering the material world; cognitive archaeology; modeling the past; networked archaeology; Endangered cultural heritage.

Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 2015

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2020

Two pottery deposits found during the 2005 field season in the cemetery area of Dra Abu el-Naga are studied. The two assemblages contain a number of vases that exhibit similarities in shape, style and technique of decoration, material composition and technology. One of them offers archaeological evidence of a funerary ritual well attested in textual and iconographic sources, the "Opening of the Mouth".

2020

A large catacomb grave was recently excavated in Hajjiabad-Varamin, in the Halil Rud valley (Kerman province, Iran). Dated from the late 4 th to the early 3 rd millennium BC, the burial is abundantly furnished with 90 artefacts, which provide for the first time an insight into the local material (ceramic) assemblage used in the Halil Rud valley around 3000 BC. The ceramics (here fully published) help to define a new ceramic horizon (which we propose to call "Varamin Period"), between the 4 th millennium BC Aliabad wares horizon and the c. mid-3 rd millennium BC occupation periods of Konar Sandal South. The analysis of the spatial distribution of the grave furnishings also reveals aspects of the final stages of the funeral, as well as some immaterial implications hidden behind the material evidence.