Two ovens from the first half of the 3rd millenium BC at Tell Arbid : evidence for grain processing?

2009, 49, Tom 49, Nr A

Dariusz Szeląg

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Archaeology

DOI

Publication date

07.01.2009

Publishing model

open access

License type

CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Humanities

Discipline

archeology

Language of publication

English

Number of views:57

Number of downloads:0

Crossref citations:0

Altmetric score:0

Abstract

The site of Tell Arbid lies in northeastern Syria, in the Upper Khabour basin, some 45 km south of Kamishliye. Since 1996 archaeological investigations have been carried out here by the Polish archaeological mission of University of Warsaw under the direction of professor P. Bieliński. 1 Since 2003 one of the areas of excavations has been sector W in the southern part of the site, at the foot of the main tell (Fig. 1). The most important discoveries from this sector (e.g. the so-called Southern Temple) are dated to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC (i.e. the Ninevite 5 period). The settlement at Tell Arbid, clearly of an urban character, reaches its greatest extent then.

Bibliography

AKKErMANS, P.M.M.G., SChWArTZ, G.M. 2003 The Archaeology of Syria. From complex Hunter-Gatherers to early Urban Societies (c. 16,000–300 Bc), Cambridge.

BIELIŃSKI, P. 2004 Tell Arbid. The 2003 campaign of Polish-Syrian excavations. Preliminary report, “Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean” Xv, 335–353.

BIELIŃSKI, P. 2007 Tell Arbid. report on the Syrian-Polish explorations in 2005. The tenth season, “Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean” XvII, 451–471.

BIELIŃSKI, P. 2009 Tell Arbid. Prelimiary report on the eleventh season of Polish-Syrian explorations (2006), “Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean” XvIII (2008), 549–561.

BIELIŃSKI, P. 2010 Tell Arbid. Preliminary report on the results of the twelfth season of Syrian-Polish excavations, “Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean” XIX, 539–556.

CETLIN, Û. B. 2004 Gončarnyj gorn na pamâtnike Tell’ Hazna I v Sirii, (in:) r. M. Munčaev, N.Â. Merpert, Š.N. Amirov (eds.), Tell’ Hazna I. Kul’tovo-administrativnyj centr IV–III tys. do n.è. v Severovostočnoj Sirii [Tell Hazna I. religious and Administrative center of IV–III Millennium Bc in North-east Syria], Moskva, 404–424

CURVERS, h.h., SCHWARTZ, G.M. 1990 excavations at Tell al-raqa’i: a small rural site of early urban Northern Mesopotamia, “American Journal of Archaeology” 94, 3–23

CURVERS, h.h., SCHWARTZ, G.M. 1992 Tell al-raqa’i 1989 and 1990: further investigations at a small rural site of early urban Northern Mesopotamia,“American Journal of Archaeology” 96, 397–419.

HILLMAN, G.C. 1984 Traditional husbandry and processing of archaic cereals in modern times: Part I, the glume-wheats, “Bulletin of Sumerian Agriculture” 1, 114–152.

HILLMAN, G.C. 1985 Traditional husbandry and processing of archaic cereals in recent times: Part II, the free-threshing cereals, “Bulletin of Sumerian Agriculture” 2, 1–31.

KOLIŃSKI, R. 2000 Polish excavations at Tell Abu Hafur, Area A – Season 1990, “damaszener Mitteilungen” 12, 31–53.

KOLIŃSKI, R.., ŁAWECKA, D. 1992 report of Polish excavations at Tell Abu Hafur, North Syria 1988–1989. Area A, “damaszener Mitteilungen” 6, 177–246.

LEBEDEVA, E.Û. 2004 Paleoètnobotaničeskie materialy iz Tell’ Hazny I: novye dannye po istorii zemledeliâ v Severnoj Sirii, (in:) r.M. Munčaev, N.Â. Merpert, Š.N. Amirov (eds.), Tell’ Hazna I. Kul’tovo-administrativnyj centr IV–III tys. do n.è. v Severovostočnoj Sirii [Tell Hazna I. religious and Administrative center of IV–III Millennium Bc in North-east Syria], Moskva, 425–440.

ŁAWECKA, D. 2009 Heating places and ovens of the 3rd millennium Bc in sector SD on Tell Arbid, “Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean” XvIII (2008), 562–569.

MAyo, d., WEISS, h. 2003 The Beginning of the Ninevite 5 Sequence at Tell Leilan, (in:) E. rova, h. Weiss (eds.), The Origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, Society, Subartu IX, Turnhout, 25–41.

MCCorrISToN, J., WEISBErG, S. 2002 Spatial and Temporal Variation in Mesopotamian Agricultural Practices in the Khabur Basin, Syrian Jazira, “Journal of Archaeological Science” 29, 485–498.

PFäLZNEr, P. 2001 Haus und Haushalt. Wohnformen des dritten Jahrtausends vor christus in Nordmesopotamien, damaszener Forschungen 9, Mainz am rhein.

ROAF, M. 2003 The Architecture of the Ninevite 5 Period, (in:) E. rova, h. Weiss (eds.), The Origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, Society, Subartu IX, Turnhout, 311–333.

SChöN, v. 1993 Appendix II: the kiln in square Q 15, (in:) G. Wilhelm, C. Zaccagnini (eds.), Tell Karrana 3, Tell Jikan, Tell Khirbet Salih, Baghdader Forschungen 15, Mainz am rhein, 34–35.

SCHWARTZ, G.M. 2000 Perspectives on rural Ideologies: the Tell al-raqa’i “Temple”, (in:) o. rouault, M. Wäfler (eds.), La Djéziré et l’euphrate syriens de la protohistoire à la fin du IIe millénaire av. J.-c. Tendances dans l’interprétation historique des données nouvelles, Subartu vII, Turnhout, 163–182.

SMOGORZEWSKA, A. 2010 Andirons from Tell Arbid. Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological Study, “Études et Travaux” XXIII, 142–155.

WILHELM, G., ZACCAGNINI, C.1993 Architecture, (in:) G. Wilhelm, C. Zaccagnini (eds.), Tell Karrana 3, Tell Jikan, Tell Khirbet Salih, BaghdaderForschungen 15, Mainz am rhein, 21–35.