Uruk 1980–1990: a progress report

Abstract

The great tells of west Asia, scenes of so many romantic assaults in the early decades of archaeology, present technical problems as challenging as any: deposits to be measured by the tens of thousands of tonnes, complex stratigraphies of re-worked mudbrick. Among the tonnes are finds that run from immense buildings to tiny seals. The venture, as often as not, has its own history going back decades. How does one approach the archaeology of a tell today? Uruk, on the south Mesopotamian plain near Ur, and best known as the type-site for the 4th-millennium city, spans 5000 years, and offers an instructive example of the scale of the problem.

Pottery, cylinder seals, and stone vessels from the cemeteries of al‐Hajjar, al‐Maqsha and Hamad Town on Bahrain

“…(60). The type is also found at Uruk in the same levels as the more standard version of the "Kassite Flask' (Goblet Type IA); the type is absent, however, from the Late Kassite sites of Tell Zubeidi and Tell Imlihiye (61). Goblet Type IIIC (Fig.…”

Market reactions to dividends announcements and payouts. Empirical evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange

“…where N indicates the number of observations used in the study. (Gurgul, 2012, p. 51) or calculating the standardized abnormal returns and using parametric test proposed by Boehmer, Masumeci and Poulsen (1991).…”

The Early Dynastic “Maison des Fruits” at Tell K in Tello (Ĝirsu)

“…The whole building foundations have been set in bitumen, thus leading to interpretations regarding the building's function. Boehmer (1990;1991) suggested that bitumen was used to make the building watertight and was possibly associated with an early water cult. Further, copper overlays and wire fittings for monumental ringed poles have been identified there (Boehmer 1990: pls 1-6).…”