Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria

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Corinne Castel, Jan-Waalke Meyer, Philippe Quenet (eds). Pages: xxvi + 398 p. Illustrations:133 b/w, 36 col., 16 tables b/w. Language(s):English, French. Brepols, Publication Year:2020 -- 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE AVANT-PROPOS Introduction Syrian Circular Cities of the Third Millennium BC: A Syrian Urban Model CORINNE CASTEL Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Circular Cities in Early Bronze Age Syria: A Reappraisal PHILIPPE QUENET The Birth of the Circular Cities JAN-WAALKE MEYER SECTION I THEMATIC TOPICS Origins of the Model The Origin and Early Development of Tell Chuēra and Neighbouring Settlements RALPH HEMPELMANN Retracing Settlements, Pots, and People: Frankfurt University s Southeast Anatolia Project (SOAP) CHRISTIAN FALB & MUSTAFA KIBAROĞLU Circular Cities: Fortifications and Official Areas The Fortification of Circular Cities: The Examples of Tell Chuēra and Tell Al-Rawda TOBIAS　B.　H. HELMS & PHILIPPE QUENET Creating the Urban Landscape. The Emergence of Monumentality in Third Millennium Chuēra OLESIA KROMBERG The Early Bronze Age Palace at Chuēra and the Decline of the Settlement ALEXANDER TAMM Circular Cities: Material Culture A Comparison of Early Bronze Age Ceramic Assemblages from Circular Cities in Inner Syria and the Western Jezirah: Some Preliminary Considerations TAOS BABOUR & GEORGES MOUAMAR Djemdet Nasr or Early Bronze Age　III? Dating the Find Locations of Tell Chuēra Seal Impressions ANNE-BIRTE BINDER Peri-Urban Constructions and Environmental Studies The Circular Cities of Northern Syria in their Environmental Context STEFAN LORENZ SMITH & TONY JAMES WILKINSON Soils and Land Use Potential Around Tell Chuēra in the Third Millennium BC HEINRICH THIEMEYER Central Places in the Wadi Ḥamar Survey Area. Aspects of Urban Planning in the Regions of the Badiyah Project in the Third Millennium BC VERONIKA KUDLEK 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 Potentiels agro-pastoraux et aménagements agricoles périurbains de la microrégion d Al-Rawda OLIVIER BARGE & MARIE-LAURE CHAMBRADE Animal Economy at the End of the Third Millennium bc in the Syrian Badiyah: A Comparative Study of Tell Chuēra and Tell Al-Rawda EMMANUELLE VILA A Cataclysm in the Steppe? Environmental History of Al-Rawda, an Ephemeral City in the Syrian Arid Margins at the End of the Third Millennium JACQUES EìLIE BROCHIER Society and Textual Sources The Ebla Palace G Texts and the Circular Cities of Third Millennium Eastern Syria: Some Remarks MARIA GIOVANNA BIGA The Ebla Palace G Texts and the Circular Cities of Third Millennium Southern Syria: Some Remarks AMALIA CATAGNOTI Square Temples and Circular Cities: Sites of Attraction, Traditions of Identity and Third Millennium Urbanisation in Northern Syria ANNE PORTER SECTION II REGIONAL TOPICS Anatolia The Spatial Org. Seller Inventory # ca1156

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