Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2265141
Neil Brodie
The Aramaic incantation bowls in the possession of the Schøyen Collection have been the subject of academic controversy and police search. This paper discusses the ethical dimensions of scholarly e...
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Rampant unregulated excavation, at a time when archaeological practice was still unknown, opened the way to massive exportation of cultural objects from Cyprus, in parallel with other countries und...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2272397
Patty Gerstenblith
Many archaeological organizations have adopted policies that prohibit being the place of first publication, or announcement, of archaeological artefacts that do not comply with the 1970 standard. C...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2278287
Lesley A. Gregoricka
Excavation is considered by many to be an inextricable part of bioarchaeology, generating assemblages of human skeletons that bioarchaeologists rely on to reconstruct the past. However, in the Near...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2282822
Shatha Mubaideen
Since the 19th century, Jordan, with its diverse and rich heritage, has been a thriving hub for international scholars and researchers. To further this pursuit, several international research insti...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2282268
Despina Pilides
Rampant unregulated excavation, at a time when archaeological practice was still unknown, opened the way to massive exportation of cultural objects from Cyprus, in parallel with other countries und...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2274666
Morag M. Kersel
Published in Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《黎凡特:英国黎凡特研究理事会杂志》(出版前,2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2274872
Jon Seligman, Elie Haddad, Liat Nadav-Ziv
Recent excavations at Yavne show the scale of the wine industry at the site, indicating the central place of its wineries in the viticulture, processing and trade of wines from Ashqelon and Gaza du...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2267279
Nadine Panayot, Aimée Bou Rizk, Duygu Çamurcuog˘lu, Claire Cuyaubère, Joanne Dyer, James Fraser, Ian Freestone, Zeina Klink-Hoppe, Andrew Meek
The Archaeological Museum at the American University of Beirut (AUB) lies approximately 3 km west of the main port of Beirut, the site of the massive explosion that sent a catastrophic shockwave th...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2258702
Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux, Samer Sahlah, Abdulaziz al-Oniri
AbstractArchaeological research on the 4th millennium BCE throughout the Levant has shown how craft specialization, extended trade and supply routes, as well as increased social stratification, established the foundation for the urban Early Bronze Age formation process in the third quarter of the 4th millennium BCE. The specific context of northern Arabia, along the fringes of the fertile crescent, remains, on the contrary, largely unexplored. In this paper lithic finds from an Early Bronze I village, named al-Rudaydah in al-Badʿ Oasis, situated in north-western Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea, are presented. All the stone tool artefacts, over 100 lithics, found in a rectangular drystone masonry dwelling, were subjected to technological and traceological analyses. Most of the artefacts are small chips and flakes resulting from tool maintenance and recycling. Formal tools include so-called tabular scrapers and trapezoidal blade segments with gloss. The results show that the scrapers were likely imported as blanks or ready-made tools, the glossy artefacts were likely sickle insets.Keywords: Early Bronze Agelithicsspatial organizationtraceologynorthern Arabia AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to warmly thank Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al-Saud, Ministry of Culture, Jasir al-Herbich, CEO Heritage Commission and Dr Abdullah al-Zahrani, Director of Archaeology, and Heritage Commission team for their support. The oasis of al-Badʿ has been studied by the Saudi-French Archaeological Project in al-Badʿ directed by G. Charloux and S. Sahlah since 2017. In addition to the support from the Heritage Commission of the Saudi Ministry of Culture, the project benefits from the funding of many French institutions, in particular the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Mondes sémitiques team at the laboratory Orient & Méditerranée (UMR 8167), the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, the French Embassy in Riyadh and the French Centre for research on the Arabian Peninsula (Cefrepa). The analysis of the lithics material conducted by Y. Hilbert was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 101001889, REVIVE). We are in great debt to two anonymous reviewers for highlighting inconsistencies and shortcomings of an earlier version of this manuscript. We also thank Scott D. McLin and Eliot Braun for proofreading our manuscript and useful comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The transitional Chalcolithic–EB I sites of Tall al-Magass and Tall Hujayrāt al-Ghuzlān in Aqaba precede that of Rudaydah by a few centuries (Khalil and Schmidt Citation2009).2 Opened in 2019 by D. M. Cabaret and extended in 2021 by G. Charloux.3 All lithics were returned to the Heritage Commission in Saudi Arabia on 27 September 2022.
对公元前4千年整个黎凡特的考古研究表明,工艺专业化、贸易和供应路线的扩展以及社会分层的增加,为公元前4千年第三季度城市早期青铜器时代的形成过程奠定了基础。相反,沿着肥沃的新月边缘的阿拉伯北部的具体背景,在很大程度上仍未被探索。本文介绍了位于沙特阿拉伯西北部靠近红海的al-Bad - al绿洲中一个名为al-Rudaydah的早期青铜时代村庄的石器发现。在一个长方形的干石砌住宅中发现了100多件石器制品,所有这些石器制品都经过了技术和痕迹分析。大多数工件是由于工具维护和回收而产生的小碎片和薄片。正式的工具包括所谓的平板刮刀和有光泽的梯形刀片。结果表明,刮刀可能是作为毛坯或现成工具进口的,有光泽的人工制品可能是镰刀镶嵌物。作者衷心感谢文化部巴德尔·本·阿卜杜拉·沙特王子、文化遗产委员会首席执行官贾西尔·赫比希、考古主任阿卜杜拉·扎赫拉尼博士和文化遗产委员会团队的支持。自2017年以来,由G. Charloux和S. Sahlah领导的沙特-法国考古项目一直在研究巴德伊的绿洲。除了得到沙特文化部遗产委员会的支持外,该项目还得到了许多法国机构的资助,特别是法国国家科学研究中心(CNRS)、东方和马姆萨梅特兰萨梅实验室(UMR 8167)的Mondes ssammitiques团队、法国欧洲和外交部、法国驻利雅得大使馆和法国阿拉伯半岛研究中心(Cefrepa)。希尔伯特(Y. Hilbert)对这种岩石材料的分析是由欧洲研究委员会(ERC)根据欧盟的“地平线2020”研究和创新计划(资助协议编号101001889,REVIVE)资助的。我们非常感谢两位匿名审稿人,他们强调了本手稿早期版本的不一致和缺点。我们也感谢Scott D. McLin和Eliot Braun对我们的手稿的校对和有用的评论。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1亚喀巴的Tall al-Magass和Tall Hujayrāt al-Ghuzlān的过渡性铜石器- eb I遗址比Rudaydah早了几个世纪(Khalil and Schmidt Citation2009)该博物馆于2019年由D. M. Cabaret开放,2021年由G. charloux扩建。所有的石像于2022年9月27日归还给沙特阿拉伯的遗产委员会。
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