The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: The Ceramic Repertoire from the Early Pottery Neolithic to the Sasanian Period

Gavagnin, Katia; Iamoni, Marco; Palermo, Rocco

doi:10.5615/bullamerschoorie.375.0119

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“…Walter Cruells has usefully brought together the available evidence for the Late Neolithic in the Syrian Euphrates Valley, applying periodizations derived from recent excavations in the region (Cruells, Molist, and Tunca 2004); Tekin (2017) has done similarly helpful work for the Turkish Upper Tigris Valley. A dedicated focus on Late Neolithic settlement patterns continues today in the mountainous Iraqi Kurdistan region (Altaweel et al 2013;Gavagnin, Iamoni, and Palermo 2016;Morandi Bonacossi and Iamoni 2015;Nieuwenhuyse, Akkermans et al 2016;Saber et al 2014;Tsuneki et al 2015;Ur et al 2013).…”

Section: Archaeological Approaches To Late Neolithic Settlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The adoption of systematic surveying techniques has certainly had a positive impact on the study of later prehistoric settlement, but further refinement is still needed. For example, a stronger emphasis on field walking designed to detect small, inconspicuous sites typical for the period holds great promise (Gavagnin, Iamoni, and Palermo 2016;Niknami, Nikzad, and Alibaigi 2013;Nishiaki 2000).…”

Section: Archaeological Approaches To Late Neolithic Settlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transforming the Upper Mesopotamian Landscape in the Late Neolithic

Nieuwenhuyse¹,

Akkermans²

2019

Concluding the Neolithic

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The Late Neolithic period in Upper Mesopotamia is generally associated with a surge in human settlement, in terms of their number, geographic distribution, and organizational complexity. In archaeological discussion, the "advanced farming village" is often seen as the logical "end product" of the agricultural transformations that began in the Early ("Pre-Pottery") Neolithic. However, the complex later prehistoric landscape did not emerge overnight. Current evidence suggests that this profound transformation took about one and a half millennia, and showed much localized variability. Over the past decades, regional surveys have resulted in a rich body of evidence that stimulates the exploration of long-term trends in settlement through the Neolithic period. Here we present a synthesis of this exploration. We highlight some important methodological and conceptual challenges to interpreting these data, and we point out a number of possible shifts in the ways Late Neolithic communities inhabited the landscape.

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Section: Archaeological Approaches To Late Neolithic Settlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Archaeological Approaches To Late Neolithic Settlementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming the Upper Mesopotamian Landscape in the Late Neolithic

Nieuwenhuyse¹,

Akkermans²

2019

Concluding the Neolithic

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“…The decorated diagnostic types found on Erbil Plain Ninevite 5 sites are overwhelmingly the painted variety; they make up 38% of the 568 Ninevite 5 sherds collected, compared to 9% for the incised variety. This situation is the inverse of that seen in the adjacent region of Dohuk (Gavagnin et al 2016: 132–134). Whether this difference is regional or chronological remains to be determined.…”

Section: The Early Bronze Agementioning

confidence: 78%

“…In the Zakho Region, surveyors state that in the initial 2013 season, “almost no Uruk-related pottery was identified” (Pfälzner et al 2015: 110). The area of the Land of Nineveh Project, including the Navkur Plain, had produced only three Uruk potsherds through that project's first two seasons, but a full complement of chaff-tempered LC 3–4 types (Morandi Bonacossi and Iamoni 2015: 21; Gavagnin et al 2016: 130–132). To the north of Erbil, the Upper Greater Zab Archaeological Reconnaissance has identified five sites with Uruk material (one site exclusively with Uruk types), all of which are within 10 km of the EPAS survey limits (Koliński 2018: 17, fig.…”

Section: The Fourth Millennium Bc and The “Uruk Expansion”mentioning

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The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey: Preliminary Results, 2012–2020

Ur¹,

Babakr²,

Palermo³

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Iraq

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The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) investigates settlement and land use from the Neolithic to the present in the Erbil Governorate of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which includes a large portion of the core of the Assyrian Empire. In seven field seasons, it has documented a broad settlement landscape in a region of great social and political importance, especially in the Bronze and Iron Ages, including 728 archaeological sites. Its field methodology combines traditional surface collection with the use of historical aerial and satellite photographs, mobile GIS, and UAV (drone) photogrammetry. Preliminary results show some unexpected patterns: a high density of culturally Uruk settlements in the fourth millennium B.C., variable urban morphologies in the Early Bronze Age; and large but low-density settlements at the end of the Sasanian period or the early Islamic period. The project is explicitly testing several hypotheses about centralized Neo-Assyrian landscape planning in the imperial core. These hypotheses appear to be confirmed, although the situation was more complex than in surrounding provinces, probably due to the longer history of continuous settlement.

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“…While we await comparable ground-truth data from the south, satellite imagery has already revolutionized our understanding of the southern environmental context for urban growth, particularly the importance of the marshes (Pournelle 2007). Since 2011, surveys in Iraqi Kurdistan assisted by satellite imagery are revealing distinctive northeastern Mesopotamian settlement patterns (Altaweel et al 2012;Gavagnin et al 2016;Ur et al 2013).…”

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Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia

McMahon

2019

J Archaeol Res

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Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed extensive settlements with diverse populations, institutions, extended hinterlands, and mass production by the early fourth millennium BC, comparable to well-known evidence for cities in their traditional homeland of southern Iraq. However, early northern Mesopotamian cities incorporated low-density zones and flexible uses of space not yet identified in southern Mesopotamia. Evidence for violent conflict in northern Mesopotamian cities also raises questions about urban sustainability; cities succeeded despite new sources of social stress.

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The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: The Ceramic Repertoire from the Early Pottery Neolithic to the Sasanian Period

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Transforming the Upper Mesopotamian Landscape in the Late Neolithic

Transforming the Upper Mesopotamian Landscape in the Late Neolithic

The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey: Preliminary Results, 2012–2020

Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia

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