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Archaeology in the Land of Carchemish: landscape surveys in the area of Jerablus Tahtani, 2006

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Wilkinson, T.J., Peltenburg, E., McCarthy, A., Wilkinson, E. B., Brown, M.·2007·Levant
DOI 10.1179/lev.2007.39.1.213
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The first season of survey around the site of Tell Jerablus Tahtani, conducted in March and April 2006, demonstrated the existence of occupations from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period. Tell Jerablus Tahtani was fringed to the west by a lower settlement of Late Uruk and early third millennium BC date, at which time settlement was also evident at Tell Sha'ir to the west and at Duluk near the junction with the Sajour. Tells formed the main mode of occupation during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, but this pattern of occupation broke down during the Hellenistic through Late Antique periods when a more dispersed pattern of rural settlements and small towns developed. The landscape became progressively more “busy” during the Hellenistic through Late Antique periods, when the presence of conduits, canals and other landscape features attest to both increasingly intensive and extensive systems of land use.

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  • The pairing of towns is a well familiar phenomenon, starting in the Early Bronze Age down to the classical period, of which the pairing of Zeugma and Apamea is best known.

    “A well familiar phenomenon, starting in the Early Bronze Age down to the classical period, of which pairing Zeugma and Apamea are best known: David Kennedy”

    From The Eighth Campaign of Thutmose III Revisited (2012) · cites this paper as Wilkinson, Peltenburg, McCarthy, E. Wilkinson and Brown 2007

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Wilkinson, T. J., Peltenburg, E., McCarthy, A., Wilkinson, E. B., & Brown, M.
Affiliations
  • Durham University (GB)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
Venue
Levant
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2007-06
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
213-247
ISSN
  • 0075-8914 (ISSN-L)
  • 1756-3801
DOI
10.1179/lev.2007.39.1.213
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W2112599190
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FWCI
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Language
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Funders
  • Council for British Research in the Levant
  • University of Cambridge
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Near East History
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeology and Historical Studies
Keywords
landscape archaeology, settlement patterns, Neolithic occupation, early Islamic history, Bronze Age settlement, Hellenistic period, Late Antique period, rural settlement, irrigation canals, land use, Carchemish

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