商品簡介
A French team completed a salvage operation of the ancient city in 1976, just ahead of the water of Lake Assad, rising behind the Tabqa Dam. Only 10-20 hectares of the southern part of the city remains above water, and severe looting during the 1980s convinced the Syrian Antiquities Department to begin systematical excavation in 1992, and soon after to reach agreement with German archaeologists for a joint project. This first volume of the report covers grave and grave goods of the Late Roman and Medieval cemeteries, an anthropological study of the skeletal remains, the animal based subsistence economy of Emar during the Bronze Age, the archaeobotanical evidence for maintaining agricultural stability in a changing environment, vegetation and wood use during the Bronze Age as revealed by charcoal from Emar, radiocarbon dates, and the context and meaning of finds for the chronology of Emar. There is no index. Articles are already completed for the second volume, on stratigraphy and architecture, and the third volume, on ceramics and small finds. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Uwe Finkbeiner teaches at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), Department of Near Eastern Archaeology of Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen. His research focuses on questions of chronology and on the possibilities of pottery analysis to pinpoint periods and their boundaries. Ferhan Sakal is researcher at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), Department of Near Eastern Archaeology of Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen. His research interests cover the archaeology and the chronology of the Middle Euphrates Region.
