On The Margin Of The Euphrates: Settlement And Land Use At Tell Es-sweyhat And In The Upper Lake ASSAD Area, Syria : Excavations at tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria

by Wilkinson, T. J.; Wilkinson, T. J.; Miller, Naomi Frances; Reichel, Clemens D.; Whitcomb, Donald S.

• ISBN13: 9781885923295
• ISBN10: 1885923295
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

The present study forms part of the author's long-term research strategy that is aimed at examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Emphasis is upon the retrieval of information from surface surveys, and at the same time, the integration of cultural change within both the local environmental context and long-term environmental change. It must be emphasized that the surveys under discussion, collectively called the Sweyhat Survey, were small and rather detailed studies of some 60 sq. km of land around Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria, and the thirty sites therein on the east bank of the Euphrates River; the surveys were conducted in 1974, 1991, and 1992. The survey area is nested within a broader "area of interest," which comprises the area of the upper Lake Tabqa salvage project.

Author Biography

Tony J. Wilkinson is Lecturer in the Archaeology of the Near East at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The physical environment	p. 13
Land use and the agricultural economy	p. 37
The archaeological landscape I	p. 55
The archaeological landscape II : wine presses, quarries, tombs, and linear hollows	p. 75
The ceramic sequence from surveyed sites	p. 83
The evolution of the settlement pattern around tell ES-Sweyhat	p. 133
The ancient agricultural economy : biological remains	p. 155
Tells ES-Sweyhat in its regional context	p. 171
Sweyhat survey site catalog	p. 199
Site gazetteer	p. 223
Selected soil and sediment descriptions	p. 263
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