Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend, Syria (Levant Supplementary) 〈1〉

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Excavations at Tell Nebi Mend, Syria (Levant Supplementary) 〈1〉

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 369 p.
  • 言語 ENG,ENG
  • 商品コード 9781782977865
  • DDC分類 939.432

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The archaeological site of Tell Nebi Mend, a tell on the Homs plain in present-day Syria, is universally recognised as the location, first, of Qadesh (or Kadesh), where, in c. 1286 BC, the armies of Ramesses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of Great Hatti fought the most famous battle of pre-classical antiquity, and, second, of Laodicea ad Libanum, founded most probably in the 3rd century BC as the capital of a district of the Seleucid empire. Collaborative excavations undertaken over 12 seasons aimed to fill a major gap in archaeological knowledge between the northern and southern Levant and to develop an understanding of the archaeology and early history of the Levantine Corridor independent of, and supplementing, that based on Palestinian and Biblical research. The primary aim was to obtain as complete a sequence as possible of cultural and environmental data, sampling all periods of the site's occupation, which included Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Hellenistic/Roman deposits, enclosures and defenses spanning the 7th millennium BC to the mid-1st millennium AD. A definitive classification of all types of Syrian pottery over two millennia was established, together with a much longer sequence of pottery, stone, metal and bone implements, terracottas and other cultural remains, accompanied by a wealth of environmental data and a series of radiometric dates.The earliest settlement so far discovered at Tell Nebi Mend dates to the first half of the 7th millennium BC and is the subject of this volume. Five phases of occupation were recognised with architectural features including, at different times, house structures and remains of larger, probably communal, buildings, along with remains of plaster, floor surfaces, fire and rubbish pits and burials, followed by large-scale abandonment. More than 2000 sherds of Neolithic pottery and 1400 flint and obsidian artefacts were recovered.

Table of Contents

List of figures, tables and plates         v
Preface                                            viii
        List of contributors                       ix
  PART I GENERAL INTRODUCTION                      1   (36)
    1 The site and the excavations                 2   (35)
          Peter J. Parr
  PART II THE POTTERY NEOLITHIC OCCUPATION         37  (308)
    2 Stratigraphy and chronology                  38  (32)
          Virginia Mathias
          Peter J. Parr
    3 Human burials                                70  (5)
          Virginia Mathias
          Theya Molleson
    4 The pottery                                  75  (188)
          Virginia Mathias
    5 The flint and obsidian artefacts             263 (24)
          Lorraine Copelandd
    6 Miscellaneous objects, White Ware and a      287 (20)
    textile impression
          Virginia Mathias
    7 Animal husbandry and domestication           307 (29)
          Caroline Grigson
    8 The charred plant remains                    336 (9)
          Katherine Smith
          Lisa Moffett
  PART III THE ENCLOSURE                           345 (16)
    9 The Enclosure                                346 (15)
          Peter J. Parr
Bibliography                                       361 (10)
Colour plates                                      371