1. Rapport préliminaire sur la deuxième campagne (1978)

Mid-Holocene Dates for Organic-Rich Sediment, Palustrine Shell, and Charcoal from Southern Iraq

“…Comment: This date provides a minimum age for persistence of freshwater marshes/lakes in the vicinity of Eridu. Date overlaps 'Ubaid 3/4 14 C dates at Tell al-Oueili (Huot et al 1981;Valladas et al 1996; see Table 1). Comment: Shell assemblage typical of freshwater marsh in this region (Plaziat and Younis 2005).…”

“…To ensure transparent comparison among data sets, compiled and published across 3 decades using varying calibration curves, we have recalibrated all published uncalibrated BP dates to calibrated BC/AD dates using IntCal09 (Reimer et al 2009). The primary data sets include: wooden bucket handles from Ur (Stuckenrath and Ralph 1965); wood (Boehmer 1991), reed (Münnich 1957); and organic sediments (Fassbinder et al 2005) collected at various times by the German Archaeological institute at Warka (Uruk); carbonized seed, shell, and tree charcoal excavated from Tell al-Oueili during the 1980s (Huot et al 1981;Valladas et al 1996); organic-rich sediments and shell collected from 9 locations spanning the former southeastern marshlands known as the Awhar, also during the 1980s (Aqrawi 1995:414;Plaziat and Younis 2005:2); 2 corings from neighboring Khuzistan (Baeteman et al 2004(Baeteman et al /2005 and charcoal from site H-3 (Tell As-Sabiyah) in Kuwait (Carter and Crawford 2002). Also relevant in this context are dates for river channels in the vicinity if Sippar, at the head of the lower Mesopotamian alluvium, which anchor mid-Holocene freshwater discharges into the southern deltaic system (Heyvaert and Baeteman 2008).…”

Mid-Holocene Dates for Organic-Rich Sediment, Palustrine Shell, and Charcoal from Southern Iraq

“…Comment: This date provides a minimum age for persistence of freshwater marshes/lakes in the vicinity of Eridu. Date overlaps 'Ubaid 3/4 14 C dates at Tell al-Oueili (Huot et al 1981;Valladas et al 1996; see Table 1).…”

“…To ensure transparent comparison among data sets, compiled and published across 3 decades using varying calibration curves, we have recalibrated all published uncalibrated BP dates to calibrated BC/AD dates using IntCal09 (Reimer et al 2009). The primary data sets include: wooden bucket handles from Ur (Stuckenrath and Ralph 1965); wood (Boehmer 1991), reed (Münnich 1957); and organic sediments (Fassbinder et al 2005) collected at various times by the German Archaeological institute at Warka (Uruk); carbonized seed, shell, and tree charcoal excavated from Tell al-Oueili during the 1980s (Huot et al 1981;Valladas et al 1996); organic-rich sediments and shell collected from 9 locations spanning the former southeastern marshlands known as the Awhar, also during the 1980s (Aqrawi 1995:414;Plaziat and Younis 2005:2); 2 corings from neighboring Khuzistan (Baeteman et al 2004(Baeteman et al /2005 and charcoal from site H-3 (Tell As-Sabiyah) in Kuwait (Carter and Crawford 2002). Also relevant in this context are dates for river channels in the vicinity if Sippar, at the head of the lower Mesopotamian alluvium, which anchor mid-Holocene freshwater discharges into the southern deltaic system (Heyvaert and Baeteman 2008).…”

Dating Ancient Canal Systems Using Radiocarbon Dating and Archaeological Evidence at Tello/Girsu, Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq

“…Comments: The date overlaps with a 14 C date at Basra (organic rich sediments, sample AA94339) (Hritz et al 2012), A 14 C date at Oueili, from Z28 Level 1 (charcoal, sample MC-2382) (Huot et al 1981) and a 14 C date at Uruk, from remains of reed from the deepest strata in Eanna, lying on natural soil (reed, sample H138-123) (Münnich 1957). No cultural material was recovered from this trench.…”