Excavations and Survey at Androna, Syria: The Oxford Team 1999

Mango, Marlia Mundell

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“…Settlement expansion was especially pronounced in southern Syria‐Palestine, especially in the present‐day Jordanian steppe. One may note that the broader trend of development of the semi‐arid desert fringes of the Levant also appears in Byzantine and Umayyad investment in the so‐called Desert Castles—elite residences which had agricultural appurtenances—and in large villages like al‐Andarin, Syria, where a sixth‐century Byzantine bath house, a feature more commonly associated with urban amenities, lived cheek‐by‐jowl with an Umayyad‐era bathhouse, possibly after the Byzantine building had gone out of use (Genequand, ; Mango, , ). The continued investment and agricultural development and apparent fertility of the desert margins throughout the Umayyad period (which ended in 750) and perhaps later indicates that farming continued there, despite environmental conditions which required the use of groundwater and rainwater capture for irrigation (Braemer et al, ; Genequand, , ; Oleson et al, ).…”

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Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part 1: The rise of Islam

Decker

2017

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Since the 19th century, scholars have examined the end of the Classical world and the beginning of the medieval world, or “Late Antiquity” in the centuries from 300–900 C.E. through the lens of environmental history. Environmental determinism, based on the use of history by colonial historians, employed elements from geography, climate, and landscape studies to explain the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam in Arabia, and the destruction of the formerly fertile lands of the Roman Empire by marauding Bedouin. Recent studies stress the importance of intensive regional study while reversing the view of general environmental catastrophe and economic decline once thought to accompany the Arab conquests of the late antique Levant.

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Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part 1: The rise of Islam

Decker

2017

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COOKING WARES IN ANCIENT SYRIA (FIRST TO 10TH CENTURIES ad): RECONSTRUCTING THE PRODUCTION CONTEXTS FROM THE CONSUMPTION SITES

Vokaer

2010

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This paper deals with Brittle Ware, a cooking ware product that appears to have been highly standardized and widely distributed in Syria during the Roman and the Byzantine periods. The study intends to determine the distribution of Brittle Ware through time and space, by combining typology and a thorough examination of the fabrics in the field, using binocular microscopy (n = 2807 diagnostic fragments). Based on the fabric groupings, petrological and chemical analyses were then undertaken. Resting on an archaeological background and several analytical methods, this paper aims at going beyond a limited provenance study, by characterizing the Brittle Ware production system and thus providing some insights into the economy of ancient Syria.

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Pottery Production and Exchange in Late Antique Syria (Fourth-Eighth Century A.D.). A Study of Some Imported and Local Wares

Vokaer¹

2015

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This paper will examine regional and extra-regional trade through the study of the distribution of some categories of ceramics in Syria. It will present a review based on a selection of local and imported wares, from publications, as well as personal observations, including fabric analyses. From the 4th c. A.D. onwards all fine wares were imported. Two major Syrian classes were produced: ‘Brittle Ware’ (Syrian cooking ware) and ‘North Syrian Amphorae’. The distribution of the different vessel categories illustrates a clear distinction between the coast and the hinterland. It also reveals active regional trade, using both fluvial and terrestrial means of transport.

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Excavations and Survey at Androna, Syria: The Oxford Team 1999

Cited by 6 publications

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Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part 1: The rise of Islam

Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part 1: The rise of Islam

COOKING WARES IN ANCIENT SYRIA (FIRST TO 10TH CENTURIES ad): RECONSTRUCTING THE PRODUCTION CONTEXTS FROM THE CONSUMPTION SITES

Pottery Production and Exchange in Late Antique Syria (Fourth-Eighth Century A.D.). A Study of Some Imported and Local Wares

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