From pottery to chronology
Subtitle: the Middle Euphrates region in Late Bronze Age Syria : proceedings of the international workshop in Mainz (Germany), May 5-7, 2012
By: edited by Adelheid Otto
Contributors: Otto, Adelheid, editor
Series: Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient -- Band 1; Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: PeWe-Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Gladbeck
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783935012294
Subjects: Pottery; Congresses; Bronze age; Archaeology; Methodology; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities
Description: This volume is the result of an International Workshop on the Chronology of the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th Century BC) in Northern Syria (Upper Syrian Euphrates Area): Emar, Tall al-Qitar, Tall Munbaqa, Umm el-Marra and Tall Bazi. It took place on May 5-7, 2012 at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. The need for the workshop was felt by the excavators of the mentioned sites, because a considerable number of LBA sites has been investigated in the Upper Euphrates area by now, but the relative and absolute chronology of most sites is still a matter of debate. The workshop in Mainz tried to tackle the problem of the dating of the Late Bronze Age of the Upper Syrian Euphrates region with the most simple and obvious method. The excavators and pottery specialists of the relevant sites were for the first time brought together. Each team was asked to present its stratified ceramic material and to explain their methods of dating: had the pottery sequence been dated by parallel with another settlement? If so, with which settlement? Or had the stratified material been dated by internal criteria, by written documents or by other well datable objects such as seals, tools and weapons, imported pottery or others? Or had it been dated by radiocarbon or other scientific analyses? The defined aim, which was circulated among the participants in advance, was by putting together and by comparing the relevant stratified material, it should be possible to discern the consistencies and differences within the material and the reasons for them.
Notes: Includes errata leaf.

Includes bibliographical references.